Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level: An Analysis of Fragmented International Regimes in the Brazilian Amazon

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regine Schönenberg
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
Collateral Damage

scholarly journals Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2415
Author(s):  
Carla Johnston ◽  
Andrew Spring
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Networks

Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) are at the forefront of the global climate emergency. Yet, they are not passive victims; local-level programs are being implemented across the region to maintain livelihoods and promote adaptation. At the same time, there is a recent call within global governance literature to pay attention to how global policy is implemented and affecting people on the ground. Thinking about these two processes, we ask the question: (how) can global governance assist northern Indigenous communities in Canada in reaching their goals of adapting their food systems to climate change? To answer this question, we argue for a “community needs” approach when engaging in global governance literature and practice, which puts community priorities and decision-making first. As part of a collaborative research partnership, we highlight the experiences of Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, located in Kakisa, NWT, Canada. We include their successes of engaging in global network building and the systemic roadblock of lack of formal land tenure. Moreover, we analyze potential opportunities for this community to engage with global governance instruments and continue connecting to global networks that further their goals related to climate change adaptation and food sovereignty.

scholarly journals Investigating Role of International Regimes in Global Governance

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Faranak Delshad Sani ◽  
Leila Mohammadzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
International Stability

<p class="zhengwen">Governance can be determined as guided penetration in various procedures by great powers that is involved with sophisticated and various mechanisms; in other words, global governance is a procedure which governor state makes and determines its important decisions about who are involved with procedure and  how to do their responsibilities. International regimes are one of the most important and penetrator executive arms of governments in global governance era which can play the most key role in this issue and bring the highest benefit for their subordinate governments.</p>Actually, regimes make regulations and beliefs to guide and set international actors, they are proposed as corporation mechanism among governments, makereliance and security, and help to international stability.

Prompt Leak Detection for High Pressure Feedwater Heaters

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Kidwell
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Local Level ◽  
High Flow ◽  
First Year ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
Unit Load ◽  
Single Tube ◽  
Drain Flow ◽  
High Level

I. THE NEED. A. In high pressure feedwater heaters, a tube leak quickly claims several neighboring tubes as collateral victims. B. Prompt detection of the initial leak would save the neighboring tubes from damage and preclude a potential turbine water induction incident. II. EXAMPLE. A. A Midwest generating station replaced 12 old high pressure heaters. The new heaters contained 304N SS tubes. In one of the new heaters, an unknown localized contaminant caused a single tube leak within the first year. This single leak went undetected until several surrounding tubes were lost due to impingement from the initial leak. And even the conservatively sized normal and emergency drains were overwhelmed, causing the heater to trip on high level. III. CAPABILITY OF SMART LEVEL CONTROLS. A. There are three known possibilities that would cause high drain-flow conditions in a feedwater heater. 1. High Unit Load. 2. The upstream feedwater heater is out of service. 3. A tube leak. B. Traditional Local level controls can sense high flow conditions, but cannot tell why. Most systems will alarm the opening of the emergency drain valve, but by that time, the collateral tube damage is usually severe. “Smart” Level Controls have the capability to distinguish between these conditions, thus allowing it to give early notification of a tube leak, before collateral damage becomes severe.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Pandemic and Global Governance: The Domestic Diffusion of Health Norms in Global Health Security Crises

2021 ◽  
pp. 097359842110420
Author(s):  
Shreejita Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
The Usa ◽  
National Boundaries

The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic demands imperative discussions in the field of health security and global governance. Traditional studies on health care and global governance have acknowledged the significance of “global” as it rested on the fact that epidemics and pandemics are not restricted within national boundaries. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the hierarchical division of norm diffusion. Despite the structural inequalities, the patterns of behavior of various countries, such as China, the USA, Italy, South Korea, and India, in managing the crisis suggest a favorable ground for bringing in the importance of national-level decision-making in the global versus local debate. Building upon the arguments from norm theories of diffusion, the article contributes to our understanding that for an effective analysis of the politics of global health governance, the power of local channels in the diffusion of essential health norms cannot be undermined. The article studies the role played by the local-level diffusion processes, in this case, the national state actors in reshaping and integrating essential health norms to make it workable for broader global relevance. As a result, following the norm theories of diffusion, this article analyzes the global–local dynamics with regard to public health in the context of the spread of the COVID-19 health security threat.

scholarly journals Drivers of Fire Anomalies in the Brazilian Amazon: Lessons Learned from the 2019 Fire Crisis

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Marcus V. F. Silveira ◽  
Caio A. Petri ◽  
Igor S. Broggio ◽  
Gabriel O. Chagas ◽  
Mateus S. Macul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Local Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Fire Prevention ◽  
Fire Occurrence ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Active Fire

The 2019 fire crisis in Amazonia dominated global news and triggered fundamental questions about the possible causes behind it. Here we performed an in-depth investigation of the drivers of active fire anomalies in the Brazilian Amazon biome. We assessed a 2003–2019 time-series of active fires, deforestation, and water deficit and evaluated potential drivers of active fire occurrence in 2019, at the biome-scale, state level, and local level. Our results revealed abnormally high monthly fire counts in 2019 for the states of Acre, Amazonas, and Roraima. These states also differed from others by exhibiting in this year extreme levels of deforestation. Areas in 2019 with active fire occurrence significantly greater than the average across the biome had, on average, three times more active fires in the three previous years, six times more deforestation in 2019, and five times more deforestation in the five previous years. Approximately one-third of yearly active fires from 2003 to 2019 occurred up to 1 km from deforested areas in the same year, and one-third of deforested areas in a given year were located up to 500 m from deforested areas in the previous year. These findings provide critical information to support strategic decisions for fire prevention policies and fire combat actions.

Global Governance as State Transformation

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahar Hameiri ◽  
Lee Jones
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
State Transformation ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Multilateral Institutions ◽  
Regulatory Standards ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Supranational Institutions

Many argue today that global governance is ‘in crisis’. This reflects an undue emphasis on the fate of multilateral institutions: if they are deadlocked, global governance does not appear to be progressing. This is misplaced. Today, global governance is increasingly being pursued not by erecting supranational institutions empowered to govern issue areas directly, but by transforming states’ internal governance to enact international disciplines domestically. In many policy domains, efforts are underway to reshape state institutions, laws and governance processes in accordance with global priorities, regulatory standards and action plans. However, because these moves privilege certain interests and ideologies over others, this is a heavily contested process. The politics of global governance thus occurs not just at the global level, but at the local level too. The argument in this article is illustrated using examples from maritime security and anti-money laundering governance.

scholarly journals Regimes Internacionais – Do intergovernamental público às arenas transnacionais público-privadas * International Regimes – From public intergovernmental to public-private transnational arenas

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
JOÃO PAULO CÂNDIA VEIGA ◽  
MURILO ALVES ZACARELI
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
International System ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Actors

<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>Os regimes internacionais foram desenvolvidos para compreender a cooperação em um sistema internacional mais integrado e multipolar. Sua aplicação empírica na história das relações internacionais foi bem sucedida tanto no alcance de temas quanto nos questionamentos teóricos e metodológicos que o conceito suscitou. Mudanças produzidas na economia política internacional dos anos 1970 explicam a sua ascensão como ferramenta analítica para compreender o curso da história na perspectiva das relações internacionais. Da mesma forma, a ascensão de atores não estatais e a constituição de arenas propriamente transnacionais tornaram o conceito obsoleto. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Regimes Internacionais; atores não estatais; arenas transnacionais; governança global.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The international regimes have been developed to understand the cooperation in a more integrated and multipolar international system. Its empirical application in the history of international relations has been successful both in the range of topics and in the theoretical and methodological questions that the concept evokes. Changes produced in the international political economy of the 1970s explain the rise of the international regimes as an analytical tool to understand the course of history from the perspective of the international relations. Similarly, the rise of non-state actors and the establishment of transnational arenas have made the concept of international regimes obsolete.</p><strong>Keywords:</strong> International Regimes; non-state actors; transnational arenas; global governance.

Global Governance

2018 ◽  
pp. 768-790
Author(s):  
Helmut K. Anheier
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Globalized World

This chapter puts the topic of global governance in the context of governance and governance systems more generally. Although global governance has many special features and is indeed the most complex and also a frequently contested governance system, it nonetheless shares many basic principles and performance criteria with other forms of managing public problems, be they at the national or the local level or designed for one policy field or another. Global governance is set apart by the legitimacy of international or supranational government given the growing interdependence of formally sovereign nation-states; the institutionalization of measures for global problem-solving, especially regarding the challenges of transgressions and voids; and the specific nature of innovation in a system yet to gain levels of capacity and readiness to cope with the task of managing a globalized world. This chapter addresses these and related issues of global governance in turn.

scholarly journals Transnational civil society and informal public spheres in the nuclear non-proliferation regime

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J Norman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Transnational Civil Society ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Scholars charting the emergence of transnational public spheres often focus on the socio-spatial sites that are generated by civil society organisations in their interactions with the institutions of global governance. These sites can reflect either strong public spheres within the formal decision-making structures of international regimes, or segmented and general public spheres on their periphery. In practice, they all suffer key democratic deficiencies in the ability to either communicatively generate public opinion or achieve collective will-formation. I argue that if civil society organisations can successfully weave together both general and segmented public spheres on the periphery of international regimes, their individual democratic deficiencies could be addressed. To demonstrate evidence of these interconnected ‘informal public spheres’, I turn to the nuclear non-proliferation regime, where public deliberation has been largely invisible and ineffectual within the formal decision-making structures of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The emergence of a new civil society organisation-led ‘humanitarian initiative’ on the periphery of the regime, comprising multi-stakeholder initiatives in conjunction with civil society organised social forums, reflects the interconnection of segmented and general public spheres. This innovative initiative has effectively enhanced transnational public debate on disarmament, while gaining crucial political traction within the regime.

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