Implementing sustainability commitments for palm oil in Indonesia: Governance arrangements of sustainability initiatives involving public and private actors

To analyse convergence and divergence in Natural Resource New Governance Arrangements (NRNGAs) two regimes in the environmentally-related areas of forest and fisheries management are examined. The findings reveal limited convergence across sectors and countries in the general aims and ideas behind NGAs and evidence of significant policy divergence in the tools and mechanisms created for their implementation. The reasons for the differences lie primarily in the policy formulation process. While the impetus for the adoption of both NRNGAs is in the international and regional realms, without the force of either international law or competitive advantage, pressure for convergence is weak. Aspects of the policy formulation process, especially the manner in which the changing capacities of domestic public and private actors active in the affected resource policy arena interact to influence policy design, are critical for explaining policy convergence and divergence. Specifically, the interplay between the effect of the internationalization of resource policy issues, tending to increase private capacities at the expense of the public one, and the declining importance of primary industries, which has the reverse effect, is shown to have played an important role in NRNGA policy dynamics.

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

European Journal of Development Research ◽

10.1057/s41287-020-00306-8 ◽

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.

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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Patterns of Interplay between Public and Private Food Regulation

European Journal of Risk Regulation ◽

10.1017/s1867299x00005043 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 482-487 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul Verbruggen ◽

Tetty Havinga

Keyword(s):

The United States ◽

Policy Cycle ◽

Private Governance ◽

Special Issue ◽

Public And Private ◽

Traditional Concept ◽

Food Governance ◽

Monitoring And Enforcement ◽

Private Actors ◽

Governance Arrangements

This Special Issue aims to develop a deeper understanding of the interplay between public and private actors in the regulatory governance of food. It starts from the observation that the traditional concept of law as command-and-control legislation and law enforcement by national governmental bodies, including inspectorates and courts, is not adequate to capture today's world of food governance. Nowadays, a broad range of public and private entities acting at national and international level seek to shape and influence the production, trade and handling of food and the risks involved therein. Drawing on data from Europe and the United States, the contributions to this Special Issue seek to unravel the intimate, yet complex ties between public and private actors within governance arrangements regulating food safety and sustainability. The articles are focused around the various phases of the policy cycle for food governance, thus addressing the interaction in stages of agenda-setting and rule-making, adoption and implementation, monitoring and enforcement, and evaluation and review. In descriptive terms, each contribution lays out the ‘who’ (actors), the ‘what’ (activity), the ‘why’ (rationale) and the ‘how’ (instruments) of food governance. In evaluative terms, the papers discuss and explain the results and challenges of the design of the public private governance arrangements. Jointly, the contributions offer original and invaluable empirical insights explaining the rise, design and challenges of mixed governance arrangements in the food sector.

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Global Administrative Law: A Transnational Perspective

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197547410.013.7 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 156-178

Author(s):

Karl-Heinz Ladeur

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Administrative Law ◽

International Treaties ◽

Public And Private ◽

Private Actors

The most important phenomena attributable to the project of “global administrative law” (GAL) consists of rules, principles, practices, or procedures that have a more informal character and are generated from networks of public and private actors. The main characteristics of those rules is that they tend to be generated below the level of formal international treaties and that norm production occurs—at least in part—outside traditional formal modes of decision-making. However, some GAL norms including standards on products and services in particular, can have far reaching consequences as their factual weight is much more influential than domestic norms. GAL also develops new forms of procedure (e.g., voting) that are different from traditional international forms.

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PHASED MULTI‐TARGET AREAL DEVELOPMENT COMPETITIONS: ALGORITHMS FOR COMPETITOR ALLOCATION

International Journal of Strategic Property Management ◽

10.3846/1648-715x.2009.13.1-22 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 1-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Pertti Lahdenperä

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Planning Process ◽

Selection Process ◽

Development Project ◽

Real Estate Development ◽

Urban Structure ◽

Public And Private ◽

Competition Process ◽

The Right ◽

Private Actors

The prevailing practice in new areal real estate development is for public and private actors to perform their duties by turns. Yet, the planning process could benefit from simultaneous contributions from society and developers and their designers. That, again, requires that the municipality selects the private partner consortia prior to completion of the local detailed plan through a competition in order to find the most potential actors and the best ideas for implementation of an urban structure of high quality. Candidates will be attracted by offering them the right to implement a residential/business block as a developer. The several blocks involved in an areal development project, and the laboriousness of producing competitive solutions, require a well planned selection process. A novel multi‐target competition process was developed which is presented in this paper with special emphasis on the allocation algorithms that allow selecting the most qualified competitors for parallel follow-up competitions from among a large group of registered candidates. The approach was tested in an actual real estate development project in the municipal district of Vuores which was the original reason for launching the study. Santruka Pletojant nekilnojamaji turta naujose teritorijose, vieši ir privatūs asmenys dažniausiai savo pareigas vykdo paeiliui. Tačiau planavimo procesui būtu tik geriau, jei tuo pačiu metu prisidetu ir visuomene, ir vystytojai, ir projektuotojai. Tam velgi reikia, kad savivaldybe paskelbtu konkursa ir pasirinktu privačiu partneriu grupes prieš užbaigdama vietini detaluji plana didžiausia potenciala turintiems dalyviams aptikti ir geriausioms idejoms surinkti, kokybiškai miesto struktūrai išvystyti. Kai teritoriju pletros projektas apima kelis kvartalus, o kuriant konkurencingus sprendimus idedama daug darbo, reikia gerai suplanuoto atrankos proceso. Yra sukurtas novatoriškas daugiatikslis konkurso procesas, pristatomas šiame darbe, daugiau demesio skiriama paskirstymo algoritmams, kuriuos naudojant iš daugybes registruotu kandidatu galima atrinkti tinkamiausius tolesniems tuo pat metu vykdomiems konkursams. Toks būdas patikrintas realiame nekilnojamojo turto pletros projekte, kuris vyko Vuores savivaldybes teritorijoje, ir būtent del šios priežasties pradetas šis tyrimas.

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Consultative Opinion on Liability of Public and Private Actors for Genetic Contamination of Non-GM Crops

Environmental Law Review ◽

10.1350/enlr.2005.7.4.253 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 253-272

Author(s):

San Sebastian

Keyword(s):

Full Text ◽

Gm Crops ◽

Public And Private ◽

Genetic Contamination ◽

Private Actors

An abridged version of the Consultative Opinion is presented here. For details of the full text readers are advised to contact the ICEAC.

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RESOURCE SUPPLY AN ACCESSIBILITY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

YMER Digital ◽

10.37896/ymer20.12/42 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (12) ◽

pp. 446-455

Author(s):

Eshetu Mathewos Juta ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Assessment System ◽

Behavioral Changes ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Urban Mass Transit ◽

Transportation Accessibility ◽

Private Actors ◽

Transportation Facilities

The term “urban mass transit” generally refers to scheduled intra-city service on a fixed route in shared vehicles. Public transportation is an important contributing factor to urban sustainability. Effective transportation networks that incorporate public transit livable by easing commute and transportation needs and increasing accessibility. To assess public transportation accessibility in metropolitan networks, two indices are used: the supply level of urban public transportation facilities resource and the public transportation-private automobile traveling time ratio. As the research in the Wolaita sodo town region and the assessment system, an evaluation technique for urban public transportation facility resource supply is developed based on accessibility. Accessibility is a representative indicator for evaluating the supply of bus system. Traditional studies have evaluated the accessibility from different aspects. Considering the interaction among land use, bus timetable arrangement and individual factors, a more holistic accessibility measurement is proposed to combine static and dynamic characteristics from multisource traffic data. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned and identify knowledge gaps to guide the design and evaluation of future transport investments. Moreover, studies looking at ways to improve the operational efficiency of systems and those seeking to promote behavioral changes in transport users offer great potential to generate learning that is useful for the public and private actors involved.

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The public and private regime complex for governing palm oil supply: what scope for building connections and enhancing complementarities?

10.17528/cifor/006464 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pacheco P. ◽

Schoneveld G.C. ◽

Dermawan A. ◽

Komarudin H. ◽

Djama M.

Keyword(s):

Palm Oil ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Oil Supply ◽

Regime Complex

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The Africa weather enterprise : filling a large gap

10.5194/ems2021-393 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Copping

Keyword(s):

Private Sector ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Success Rates ◽

End User ◽

Public And Private ◽

Single Person ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

National Economies ◽

Private Actors ◽

Warning Services

The study focuses on the role of the private sector in the development and delivery of hydromet and early warning services (EWS) in sub-Saharan Africa, within the current landscape of the Africa Regional Weather Enterprise (ARWE).The study was sponsored by the World Bank and conducted through interviews with 28 National Hydro&#173;Meteorological Services (NMHS) and 87 participating companies who either work in or have interest in the region&#8217;s hydromet market, varying in size from single-person entities to large multinationals. Less than 4% of companies have their headquarters (and solely operate) in Africa. 157 projects were identified from the 65 most active donors financing hydromet projects in sub-Saharan Africa, and classified by sector and complexity, from niche to &#8220;full-chain&#8221; solutions.The study analyses which and how private sector actors operate within the framework of national, regional and international hydromet projects, in which countries, which products and services they provide and in which end-user categories, from research and development, to innovation and capacity building initiatives.The study further analyses the success rates of international companies winning tenders in sub-Saharan Africa , and the patterns leading to success.The report concludes by drawing on lessons from the positive dynamics and gaps in partnerships and engagements between public and private actors. The results of the study create the need for sixteen recommendations to further improve the ARWE, with a key emphasis on PPE, to successfully complete African hydromet programs, and in turn satisfy end-user needs, to protect lives, property, and to support their national economies for the prosperity of all.

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