scholarly journals The Governance of Water Use in Northwest Mexico: A Qualitative and Quantitative Based Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (29) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo V. Santes-Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Northwest Mexico ◽  
Development Institutions

In Mexico, the working of government institutions lags far behind the aims of good governance and sustainable development. Institutions deviate from those goals when they circumvent their duties to general wellbeing to favour powerful interest groups. The issue is even more of a concern in lands of high economic value, where the competition for water is strong. San Quintin Region, in the arid northwest part of the country, is symbolic; it is a rich agro-productive area inserted in the international market from way back, yet its economic success contrasts with worries regarding social conflict and environmental decline due to water misuse. Allegedly, if current exploitation trends remain unchanged, the viability of the ecosystem as a whole will be at risk soon. In this article, it is argued that the administration and management of water runs up against the aims of sustainable development; hence, measures to improve governance are needed. The main objective was to investigate the institutional and social context in which the problem occurs, so as to unveil the prospects of improvement. A qualitative and quantitative methodology suggested that in San Quintin, governance of water use reflects dubious institutional workings. It is unjust, because it fosters an inequitable treatment of the local population; also, it is environmentally damaging in view of the overexploitation of extant resources, often to the point of depletion. Furthermore, water use lacks context-focus, due to the centralised decisionmaking process. All in all, governance might progress through decisive reforms to social and institutional practices.

Towards a Rural Sustainable Development? Contributions of the EAFRD 2007-2013 in Low Demographic Density Territories. The case of Extremadura (SW Spain)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Cárdenas Alonso ◽  
Ana Nieto Masot
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Sw Spain

The European Commission has been striving to achieve sustainable development in its rural areas for more than 25 years through funds aimed at modernizing the agricultural and forestry sectors, protecting the environment and improving the quality of life. But is sustainable rural development really being accomplished? This study sets out to answer this question in the case of Extremadura, a Spanish territory with Low Demographic Density and a Gross Domestic Product still below 75 % of the European average. Both qualitative and quantitative methodology have been employed, using a Principal Component Analysis the result of which has provided us with a model which shows how various behaviors coexist in the region in view of the distribution of current funding from the EAFRD. The most dynamic areas have received the largest amounts of funding and these are linked to the agricultural sector and to the protection of the environment, leaving aside the more depressed areas and the implementation of the LEADER Approach as well. Therefore, we have come to the conclusion that the current rural development in Extremadura is not sustainable enough.

scholarly journals Civic Education for Sustainable Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Bernhard Ohlmeier
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
German Development ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Economic Productivity

Abstract Education for sustainable development (ESD) often fails to consider the political dimension. To address this gap, this paper focuses on a specific political approach to ESD. The model presented is derived from the four sustainable growth targets of German Development Policy. Instead of relying on a neo-classical or neo-liberal economic paradigm, however, the goals of social justice, environmental sustainability, economic productivity and good governance are interpreted using a sustainability model. This model is anchored in a steady-state economy that has overcome the myth of unlimited material growth and seeks to stay within the limits of the planet's resources. The preconditions of good governance are outlined, and it is described how the state and civil society can contribute to this normative goal. In addition to social, ecological, economic and political components, the presented model for civic education for sustainability considers conflicts between different development components and the need for horizontal and vertical coherence. In conclusion, the paper shows that civic education for sustainability must aim to produce informed and empowered global citizens. Citizens should have the ability to employ their knowledge and skills responsibly through local and global civic involvement while also remaining aware of their own interests. Furthermore, it falls to educational policy makers to create national as well as international organisational structures that facilitate civic ESD.

Governance of Development Assistance: Issues and Challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-264
Author(s):  
Navreet Kaur ◽  
Lhoukhokai Sitlhou
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Disaster Assistance ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Bilateral Assistance ◽  
Rich Countries

Good governance emphasises upon efficient and effective institutional mechanism, greater transparency, people’s participation, citizen-centric services and accountability. These reforms are not only limited to national governance practices but also applicable to distribution, disbursement and effectiveness of development assistance. The objective of development assistance is to provide opportunities to needy, deprived and disadvantageous sections of the society. The available data on development assistance clearly demonstrate that rich countries, Development Assistance Countries (DACs) provide financial assistance to poor countries and it has reached US$100 billion in recent years. Non-DAC bilateral assistance (NDBA) is more than US$8 billion in Office of Disaster Assistance (ODA) and US$5 billion annually in country programmable aid (CPA). Private aid (PrA) from DAC members contribute between US$58 billion and 68 billion per year. Total aid flows to developing countries currently amount to around US$180 billion annually. Multilateral aid agencies (around 230) outnumber donors and recipients combined. But the harsh reality is high percentage of illiteracy, high child mortality, gender inequality, prevalence of corruption and exclusion of needy people from the development process. The examination of the process and procedures involved in development process revealed that there are many challenges in the process adopted for allocation, methodological limitations, evaluation limitation, lack of coordination among multiple agencies, political compulsions of donor and recipient countries, transparency, accountability and multidimensional global financial markets compulsions. Certain measures can make development more inclusive and sustainable. Collective efforts of all agencies are the need of the hour to achieve the targets of sustainable development. Coordination among multiple agencies, capacity building of target population and involvement of private agencies in the development process will pave the way for sustainable development.

scholarly journals Taking Lead for Sustainability: Environmental Managers as Institutional Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4022
Author(s):  
Pernilla Gluch ◽  
Stina Månsson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Past

Over the past two decades, sustainability professionals have entered the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. However, little attention has been given to the actual professionalization processes of these and the leadership conducted by them when shaping the pace and direction for sustainable development. With the aim to explore how the role of sustainability professionals develops, critical events affecting everyday sustainability work practices were identified. Based on a phenomenological study with focus on eight experienced environmental managers’ life stories, and by applying the theoretical lens of institutional entrepreneurship, the study displays a professionalization process in six episodes. Different critical events both enabled and disabled environmental managers’ opportunity to engage in institutional entrepreneurship. The findings indicate how agency is closely interrelated to temporary discourses in society; they either serve to support change and create new institutional practices towards enhanced sustainability or disrupt change when agency to act is temporarily “lost”. To manage a continually changing environment, environmental managers adopt different strategies depending on the situated context and time, such as finding ambassadors and interorganizational allies, mobilizing resources, creating organizational structures, and repositioning themselves.

USING CORPUS LINGUISTICS TO DESCRIBE CORPORATIONS’ IDEOLOGIES

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Renata Fox
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Symbolic Universe

This article applies corpus linguistics to research the ideologies of Fortune 500 corporations as institutionalised through those corporations’ mission statements. The methodology used is both qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative methodology relates to the semantics of corporations’ ideologies. More precisely, it explains the ideas, beliefs, meanings, and concepts found in corporations’ mission statements, the relation between those ideas, beliefs, meanings, and concepts and society, and what makes those ideas, beliefs, meanings, and concepts meaningful. Quantitative methodology relates to the description and comparison of corporations’ ideologies based on a corpus-driven approach and computational text analysis of a corpus of corporations’ mission statements. Ultimately, through its ideology a corporation creates a symbolic universe: “a matrix of all social and individual meanings” that determines the significance of the corporation and its stakeholders.

The impact of applying good governance standards in reducing corruption and achieving sustainable development in Yemen

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 769-791
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
The Core ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to highlight the role of applying good governance standards in reducing corruption and achieving sustainable development in Yemen, since good governance represents the core of the development process of countries and societies. Good governance is based on the principle of transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness in order to raise the capacity and efficiency of the state and make it more capable and effective to achieve sustainable development. Corruption in all its forms is one of the biggest obstacles to sustainable development in Yemen, and a major reason for wasting state resources and limiting foreign investment, and thus the expansion of poverty, the poor, and other effects related to the failure to achieve sustainable development. Yemen is one of the most Arab countries facing major challenges in the field of implementing good governance and combating corruption in order to achieve sustainable development and achieve its goals at all political, economic, social and environment. This paper concluded that Yemen suffers from a lack of implementation and enforcement of good governance standards, as well as a rampant corruption, which has led to an expansion of poverty and a significant decline in development rates. Key words: Good Governance, Corruption, Sustainable development.

scholarly journals Suksesbelewing Van Seniorbestuurders Van ’N Groot Finansieële Instelling

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. P. Labuschagne ◽  
J. C. Kok ◽  
D. P. J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Success Experience

The success experience of a financial institutions senior management. No clarity exists either in literature or in practice regarding people’s success experience. People often experience a dissonance between external success and internal fulfillment. Important components needed to experience success were identified from literature in order to determine in practice to what extent such components formed part of the success experience of a financial institution’s senior management. Internal (intrinsic) and external (extrinsic) factors were identified as necessary factors in order to experience success in a balanced way. In this article the findings of senior management’s success experience are reported. The research was conducted by means of qualitative and quantitative methodology from a Personal and Professional Leadership perspective. OpsommingDaar is onduidelikheid in die literatuur, en in die praktyk, oor wat presies die belewenis van sukses by mense is. Mense ervaar dikwels ’n dissonans tussen uiterlike sukses en innerlike vervulling. Belangrike komponente in die belewing van sukses is in die literatuur geïdentifiseer en in die praktyk getoets om vas te stel tot welke mate interne (intrinsieke) en eksterne (ekstrinsieke) faktore deel uitmaak van die suksesbelewing van senior bestuur in ’n finansiële instelling. Beide stelle faktore is van belang om op ’n gebalanseerde wyse sukses te kan beleef. In hierdie artikel word die bevindings ten opsigte van senior bestuur se suksesbelewing gerapporteer. Die navorsing is met behulp van kwalitatiewe sowel as kwantitatiewe metodologie vanuit Persoonlike en Professionele Leierskapsperspektief ondersoek.

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