Sustainable Development Awareness and Policy Making in Malta

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-167
Author(s):  
Sheryl Green ◽  
Paul Pace
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Depth Interviews

Policymakers’ understanding of the holistic nature and implications of sustainable development (SD) determines a nation’s commitment to sustainability. The study involved in-depth interviews with 20 policymakers. The study identified underlying interconnections between policymakers’ perceptions, commitment and awareness of SD and whether they developed the necessary values and attitudes required to promote sustainability at both local and national levels. These findings provided reflections for the development of Education for Sustainable Development programmes targeting policy makers to expedite implementation of SD in Malta.

Environmental Policies for Emergency Management and Public Safety

2019 ◽  
pp. 903-922
Author(s):  
Amidu Owolabi Ayeni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Green Policy ◽  
Or Organization

Policy refers to the commitment of people or organization to the laws, regulations, and other green mechanisms concerning environmental issues. Community participation has become important in government, policy makers, and environmentalists over last few decades, and as a result, it is now an established principle as it is widely used not only in academic literature but in policy-making documents, international discussions, as well as in local debates when considering issues dealing with decision-making to achieve sustainable development. Implementation of green policy and community participation programs through representatives—organization, groups of individuals—enhances the benefits of polices and program and adds value to policy as well as making the policy's results and responses more effective and stronger.

scholarly journals Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making

2020 ◽  
pp. 003452372092067
Author(s):  
Karen Smith ◽  
Scott Fernie ◽  
Nick Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Times ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Research And Policy

The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education researchers, policy makers and research evidence are not straightforward. In this article, we use a theoretical lens of time, Adams’ Timescapes, to explore this relationship and better understand why the research and policy worlds are frequently described as divided. Drawing on in-depth interviews with higher education researchers, policy makers and research funders, we show how research and policy have different interpretations of time. We discuss the Timeframes, or lengths, of work and career, the Temporality, or complexity, of ‘evidence’, of networks and relationships, and the importance of elements such as Timing, or synchronisation, and Tempo, or pace. We conclude that policy makers and higher education researchers may be better able to make sense of the problematic nature of aligning their concerns, interests and actions through understanding different Timescapes.

Engaging Returnee Entrepreneurs Through Institutional Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-136
Author(s):  
Nick Williams
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 8 returns the analysis to policy making and institution building. Through in-depth interviews with policy makers and other stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro, the chapter investigates perceptions of, and progress towards, engaging returnee entrepreneurs. It demonstrates that while policy makers are aware of the importance of emotional ties to home, they have little influence over this, and instead need to focus on the practicalities of improving the institutional environment. The chapter shows that policy emphasis has been placed on formal institutional reform, in particular the regulative framework, rather than ideational politics which emphasises heritage and cultural promotion. Yet in all three countries reforms have been slow. This serves to discourage growing investment from the diaspora as risks are often considered to be too great. Positive reforms are required so that the second generation of migrants do not become more isolated from their parents’ homeland. If that connection is lost, investments will only decrease over time.

23. Environmental Policy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Benson ◽  
Andrew Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sectoral Policy

This chapter examines the European Union's environmental policy. The EU has developed a variety of policies and institutions dedicated to environmental protection and sustainable development. Environmental concerns have consequently shifted from being a marginal aspect of the European integration process to one that generate relatively strong political support from citizens. The chapter begins with a discussion of four perspectives for comprehending the evolution of EU environmental policy. one of which is to explore the content of the EU's environmental action programmes (EAPs). It then considers three interacting dynamics of policy-making in the environmental sector: Europeanization, internationalization, and cross-sectoral policy integration. It also reflects on challenges that EU environmental policy-makers are likely to face in the future.

scholarly journals Filozoficzne aspekty modelowania cybernetycznego w metodologii działań politycznych w zakresie zrównoważonego rozwoju

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-385
Author(s):  
Marek Haliniak
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cybernetic System ◽  
High Level

The article deals with the experience and results of attempts aimed at using cybernetic system methods for modeling the policy of sustainable development. The analysis is made from the ecophilosophical perspective. The cybernetics is presented as the sub-philosophical, general, and inter-disciplinary science with a high level of influence on the process of policy-making and policy-makers. However, the barriers of philosophy and cybernetics in that respect are strictly connected with the limits of philosophy. The question concerns the problem of transferring the ideas into practice by the method of cybernetic modeling. Whereas the conceptual model should reflect the objective reality it should be based on some general, politically accepted ideas. This necessity is obvious because of the link between the basic axioms of a given model with the general results generated by it. The author analyses the possibility of appliance the Sage-Michnowski model as the instrument for planning the sustainable development policy as the interrelated social, economic, and ecological system.

A case study of the co-production approach to the implementation of education for sustainable development in Thailand

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suwida Nuamcharoen ◽  
Nopraenue S Dhirathiti
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Contingency Approach ◽  
Production Approach

Thailand is a good example of a developing country which is struggling with globally common problems in trying to find solutions for sustainable education development. Education is one of the important methods to build the mindset of Thai people toward sustainable development (SD). The co-production approach is a way of improving public services, including education for sustainable development (ESD). The study employs qualitative research techniques which aim at studying the implementation and co-production of ESD. Moreover, it is to explore and synthesize the implementation characteristics of co-producing ESD in Thailand. The research found 12 correlated indicators from the literature that link SD, ESD and co-production practices. They were categorized into input, process and output of the cycle of implementing and co-producing ESD. The indicators were examined within the context of the case study of Bansankong School. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with stakeholders that included representatives from the school administration, families and communities, local authorities, other relevant institutions and volunteers. The results showed that factors in the process portion of the cycle of implementing and co-producing ESD tended to be more significant; these were community engagement, information technology and media usage, and the contingency approach. The factors in the input portion of the process, namely, self-reliance and self-efficiency of population and leadership, and the factor of mutual benefits in the output portion proved to be significant. The other seven factors, cultural adaptation, democratic participation, equitability, goal of sustainable future, interdependence, interdisciplinary approaches and collaborative approach and partnership, appeared to be non-significant.

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