Strategic niche management: towards a policy tool for sustainable development

The Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development (ipfsd) was formulated by unctad, among others, as a response to the challenges that least-developed and developing countries face today – because of their obligations under international investment agreements (iias) – when trying to implement development or poverty alleviation policies. By looking at selected investor-state dispute settlement cases brought against Argentina, Bolivia and South Africa in response to poverty-related regulatory measures, this paper analyses the interpretation of iia clauses by arbitral tribunals, and familiarizes the reader with the policy options provided by the ipfsd. The ipfsd recommends a “new generation” of investment policies that places inclusive growth and sustainable development at the heart of efforts to attract and benefit from foreign direct investment. The ipfsd does not explicitly focus on poverty eradication; however, its comprehensive approach to sustainable development makes of it a policy tool-kit with great potential for policy makers.

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Saving the baby while discarding the bathwater: the application of policy coherence for development analysis to payment for watershed services

Madera y Bosques ◽

10.21829/myb.2019.2531760 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Harlan Koff ◽

Carmen Maganda

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Payment For Ecosystem Services ◽

Policy Coherence ◽

Policy Tool ◽

Policy Coherence For Development ◽

Payment For Watershed Services ◽

Watershed Services ◽

Development Analysis ◽

Policy Mechanisms ◽

Policy Arenas

One of the most debated tools for the implementation of sustainable development is “payment for ecosystem services”, of which “payment for watershed services” (PWS) is one of the most developed. While proponents argue that such payments provide market value to the services that ecosystems provide for development, opponents claim that this approach commodifies the environment and promotes inequalities. This article presents an analysis of PWS programs by applying methodologies based on policy coherence for development (PCD), defined as a policy tool aimed at eliminating incoherence within sustainable development strategies that undermine their effectiveness as well as between such strategies and other policy arenas, which are also considered harmful to sustainability. By employing a PCD methodology, the article aims to identify policy mechanisms that undermine PWS programs so that stakeholders can make adjustments, thus, metaphorically ensuring that “the baby” (PWS) is not discarded with “the bathwater” (policy incoherence for sustainable development).

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Sustainable Development Goals

The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803164.013.42 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 763-778 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Goal Setting ◽

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Political Process ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Policy Tool ◽

Global Goal ◽

Development Goals ◽

Single Number

The 2015 agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was an ambitious and inclusive agenda that went beyond the poverty agenda of the Millennium Development Goals to incorporate climate change, infrastucture, and governance issues, and redefined development as a universal challenge. The SDGs are also the latest in a series of UN goal-setting processes. This chapter examines the strengths and pitfalls of such global goal-setting and the limitations of capturing development priorities in a single number. It begins with an overview of the SDGs as an agenda, purpose, and political process, and then evaluates global goal-setting as a specific policy tool for elaborating and promoting global development priorities.

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Characteristics and Evolution of China’s Industry–University–Research Collaboration to Promote the Sustainable Development: Based on Policy Text Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132313105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 13105

Author(s):

Xiaojie Yao ◽

Yuan Hu ◽

Huaping Gong ◽

Dongyou Chen

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Service System ◽

National Level ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

University Research ◽

Social Characteristics ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Policy Tools ◽

Policy Tool

Collaborative innovation is an effective way to realize national innovation and sustainable development. The Chinese government has issued a series of Industry–University–Research (IUR) policies and regulations in recent decades to effectively promote the development of national scientific and technological innovation. Exploring the characteristics and evolution of IUR collaborative policy is critical for the healthy development of IUR and subsequent policy formulation. In this study, we collected IUR policy texts at the national level of China from 1992 to 2020 as the research object. On the basis of policy tool theory, a three-dimensional analysis framework of “Policy tool–Policy theme–Evolution stage” was constructed and studied using content analysis and social network analysis methods. Through the quantitative statistical analysis, we find that China’s IUR policies have experienced four development stages. Among all policy tools, the supply-side IUR ones are sufficient, whereas demand-side policy tools are insufficient. The service system policy theme is lacking relative to other themes. In addition, the application of information technology (IT) policies is prominent. Therefore, we suggest optimizing the policy structure in combination with social characteristics and strengthening the establishment of service system innovation. Enhancing the role of IT to promote innovation policies is also recommended.

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IOs and Climate Change: Toward Global Eco-Social Policy

International Organizations in Global Social Governance - Global Dynamics of Social Policy ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_11 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 255-273

Author(s):

Silvana Lakeman

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Social Policy ◽

First Century ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Policy Issues ◽

Policy Tool ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Soft Governance ◽

Policy Engagement

AbstractIn the twenty-first century, climate change poses a major challenge to the work of IOs. This chapter contextualizes the historical shift from more compartmentalized understandings of climate change at the IO level, toward the current understanding of climate change as a pervasive threat to social policy across various issue areas. Fueled by ongoing discourse surrounding the Sustainable Development Agenda at the United Nations, a multiplicity of IOs are framing social policy issues in relation to climate change that may have traditionally been viewed as largely separate. The cross-cutting nature of the issue for IOs is highlighted, and as illustrated via an exploration of climate insurance as a social policy tool, climate change has led to compelling developments regarding the archetypal roles of IOs as actors of soft governance, raising questions for the future of IOs in the context of climate change and social policy engagement.

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