scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship between Administrative Norms and Competence in Transnational Governance: ISO, ISEAL and Sustainability Standards

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stepan Wood
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Neglected Transportation Infrastructure

Sibirica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-45
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

Verkhnemarkovo, a small Siberian town located on an oil field in Russia’s Irkutsk region, is plagued by bad roads and limited mobility. This article explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the wellbeing of individuals and communities, with a focus on transport and mobility infrastructure. Some oil companies, such as Irkutsk Oil Company, are tied to the sustainability standards of international financial institutions. The article addresses the question of why people are in limbo between the state and local operating oil companies. Contemporary life in Verkhnemarkovo is characterized by so-called infrastructural violence, which results from the lack of state support—or false promises made by the state— and relates to good transport infrastructure. In their complaints, local people recall the Soviet past and expect support from the state or industry.

scholarly journals The Interaction of Private and Public Governance: The Case of Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Brandi
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Regime Complex ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Private Certification ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Abstract By providing insights into the interaction between private-driven and public-driven governance initiatives in the context of the “Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) and the “Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil” (ISPO), this article sheds new light the interaction between private and public governance. It investigates how the relationship between the RSPO and the ISPO evolves over time and who and what drives this evolution. While the interaction between these standard schemes has initially largely been characterized by competition, it has become more collaborative and also coordinated in nature. This article argues that the experimentalist architecture of palm oil governance has fostered mechanisms for coordination across public and private certification schemes and has helped to join up the separate components of the regime complex through productive interactions. At the same time, several gaps and challenges remain, especially in light of the different interests of the multiple public and private actors involved in palm oil.

Débrouillardise: certifying ‘conflict-free’ minerals in a context of regulatory pluralism in South Kivu, DR Congo

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Müller-Koné
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Mining Sites ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
South Kivu ◽  
Rule Systems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Free Status

AbstractThis article explores the relationship between transnational governance initiatives for ‘conflict-free’ certification in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the regulatory pluralism one finds on the ground. Efforts in certifying artisanal gold mining are scrutinised by analysing how three different gold mining sites in the DRC's South Kivu province are governed. Most artisanal mining in the DRC is usually referred to as ‘informal’ – a term associated with non-state actors. Instead, the article introduces the idea of a mode of governing that follows the principle of ‘débrouillardise’, which combines different rule systems and state and non-state regulators. It argues that ‘conflict-free’ governance will need to improvise viaad hocagreements on the legal status of mining sites among state authorities, economic actors and international monitors. The act of declaring mining sites legal will provide for the semblance of a ‘conflict-free’ status and a unitary state system of rule, while in practice, the plurality of regulatory authority will not be reversed.

Re-centering the State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Bartley
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
The State ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Normative Implications

Transnational private regulation has brought reforms to forests and factories but rarely of an empowering or transformative kind. This chapter draws out normative implications of the research in this book and highlights paths toward improvement. While not dispensing with supply-chain scrutiny altogether, the chapter calls for revising the rating of corporate responsibility, re-centering the state, and shifting toward “place-conscious” transnational governance. Some elements of this approach can already be seen in a new transnational timber legality regime, which has the potential to overcome the limits of private sustainability standards. The chapter explains the rise of this regime and considers the possibilities for extending the legality framework to labor.

scholarly journals Public and Private Governance in Interaction: Changing Interpretations of Sovereignty in the Field of Sustainable Palm Oil

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greetje Schouten ◽  
Otto Hospes
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Regulatory Capacity ◽  
Sustainability Standards

Since the 1990s, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and businesses have gained prominence as architects of new forms of transnational governance creating Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS). The legitimacy and effectiveness of VSS are dependent on interactions with public authorities and regulation. While studies suggest that the (perceived) gain or loss of sovereignty by a state shapes public–private interactions, we have little understanding on how states use or interpret sovereignty in their interactions with VSS. In this paper, we explore what interpretations of sovereignty are used by states at different ends of global value chains in interactions with VSS. Based on a comparative and longitudinal study of interactions of Indonesian and Dutch state actors with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, we conclude that states strategically use different and changing notions of sovereignty to control the policy and debate regarding sustainable palm oil. When interactions between public and private governance are coordinative in nature, notions of interdependent sovereignty are used. However, when interactions are competitive, domestic and Westphalian notions of sovereignty are used. Our results show conflicting interpretations and usages of sovereignty by different states, which might negatively impact the regulatory capacity within an issue field to address sustainability issues.

scholarly journals Remembering Sally Engle Merry: Her scholarship and her legacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Collaborative Engagement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Domains

This article reviews the scholarship and legacy of Sally Engle Merry who died on 8th September, 2020. It focuses on a number of research fields and themes that are central to her work and collaborative engagement with other scholars, primarily across the disciplines of anthropology, law, sociology and socio-legal studies. These research domains include neighbourhood justice and mediation, law and colonialism, human rights and transnational governance, gender violence, the quantification of knowledge globally, and the relationship between law, society and power.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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