scholarly journals Understanding the Impacts of Financial Flows in the Landscape

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1261
Author(s):  
Bas Louman ◽  
Seth Shames ◽  
Gabija Pamerneckyte ◽  
Mercy Owusu Ansah ◽  
Irene Koesoetjahjo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Common Understanding

Donors and non-governmental organizations are showing increased interest in integrated landscape initiatives (ILIs), where landscape stakeholders work together to achieve common goals related to development, climate change and conservation. In order to support the work of ILIs, we developed a novel methodology with which stakeholders—organized in multi-stakeholder partnerships—can assess how financial flows in the landscape are impacting their common goals and to identify funding gaps. Piloting the methodology in three landscapes in Indonesia, Ghana and Vietnam, we found that there were trade-offs between ensuring broad stakeholder participation in the assessments (to capture different perspectives) and the level of technical and quantifiable detail that could be acquired. The methodology effectively contributed to a common understanding among landscape-level stakeholders and triggered discussions on methods in which financial flows can be adapted to reduce their negative impacts or increase their positive impacts. It also functioned as a basis for the development of joint action plans and to initiate collaborations with the providers of financial flows that have potential to contribute to common landscape objectives. In addition to promoting common understanding and providing a basis for the development of action plans, we conclude that implementing the methodology also helped with strengthening the landscape partnerships themselves.

scholarly journals Past, Present And Possible: Toward An Integrated Approach For Natural Heritage Conservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily-Ann D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Third Sector ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Natural Landscapes

The Greenway Initiative, proposed by Ontario Nature, endeavours to reconnect the province’s fragmented natural landscapes through a system of cores and corridors. Non-governmental organizations like Ontario Nature are leading the effort to conserve the province’s natural heritage through public-private incentive-based tools including conservation easements and stewardship agreements. The rationale to incent conservation through public-private partnerships is to overcome the politically- and financially- unfavourable consequences that limit the effectiveness of regulatory approaches to achieve conservation objectives at the local scale. However, public-private incentive-based conservation tools also generate trade-offs that maintain the need for traditional regulatory approaches. This paper argues that in addition to established public instruments, incentive-based conservation tools to promote stewardship on private land are necessary to achieve broader conservation objectives. With a combination of public, private and third sector approaches, an integrated set of strategies is recommended, in which planning choices and trade-offs are made clear.

scholarly journals Eco-Efficiency and Private Firms’ Relationships with Heterogeneous Public Stakeholders in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 6983
Author(s):  
Jiawen Chen ◽  
Linlin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Stakeholder Salience ◽  
Organizational Learning Theory ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Stakeholder Salience Theory

Private firms have been struggling to simultaneously achieve both environmental and economic goals. The concept of eco-efficiency captures the extent to which firms gain competitiveness through environmental management. Based on stakeholder salience theory and organizational learning theory, this study proposes that relationship with public stakeholders can hinder or promote private firms’ eco-efficiency. Our findings showed that firm eco-efficiency is reduced by a relationship with the government but is enhanced by relationships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This study also found that the effects on eco-efficiency of a firm’s relationship with public stakeholders are contingent on firm size. The findings of this study shed light on the organizational learning perspective of eco-efficiency and multi-stakeholder management by theoretically and empirically differentiating the effects on firm eco-efficiency of relationships with the government and NGOs.

Regional development in Amazonas, Peru: science-society interactions for sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 205301962095121
Author(s):  
Carola Mick ◽  
María E. Fernández ◽  
Cástula Alvarado Chuqui ◽  
Carlos A. Amasifuen Guerra ◽  
Mina Kleiche-Dray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Local Stakeholder ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Power Pattern ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Technological Constraints

Scientific-technological knowledge maintains the anthropocentric power-pattern and exploitive attitude with regard to nature, but sustainability science asks for an integration of territorial and decontextualized knowledge systems. Visual participatory methodologies involving diverse local stakeholder facilitate dialogue on environmental and sustainability issues. Inspired by visual ethnography and mediated discourse analysis, the present article uses semiological analysis to reconstruct the depicted narratives on the nature-society system in drawings representing “regional development”. The drawings were elaborated in a series of participatory workshops involving university faculty and students, regional government and non-governmental organizations and farmers from local communities in the northern Amazonian region of Peru. The analysis reveals a prevailing anthropo and technology centered, “colonial” conception of the nature-society system, and a marginalization of alternative narratives. Beyond confirming the potential for visual participatory methods to enhance multi-stakeholder dialogue, it demonstrates how semiological analysis can be used to deepen an understanding of the cultural, organizational and technological constraints facing critical, trans-disciplinary efforts to decolonize the technology-centered, anthropocentric mainstream worldview of nature and society.

scholarly journals Saving Water while Doing Business: Corporate Agenda-Setting and Water Sustainability

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Kemper ◽  
Lena Partzsch
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Water Sustainability ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Water Problems

Organic and fair trade campaigns bring water sustainability onto public agendas, such as for example in the cotton/textile sector. Armedangels, a German company, advertises its t-shirts by arguing that their production requires only 1/10th of the water required in conventional production. This article studies the ambitions of such corporate agenda-setters. Methodologically, we develop a framework that contains six criteria and nine indicators, which allow us to code and assess the certification standards. In addition, we conducted semi-structured interviews, group discussions, and participatory observations in order to better understand whose agendas certification is promulgating. The criteria encompass the social and environmental dimensions of water sustainability. Our cases include Naturland (a private organic standard), the European Union (EU) Organic Regulation (a public organic standard), the Fairtrade Labeling Organization (FLO) (a fair trade initiative), and the Fair for Life (FFL) standard (an organic and fair trade standard). Our study also looks at the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and Cotton made in Africa (CmiA), which are two multi-stakeholder initiatives that operate on the conventional market in cooperation with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The findings demonstrate that organic and fair trade companies rightly present themselves as water policy entrepreneurs. However, crucial aspects of water sustainability remain hidden. In particular, there is a cleavage between the environmental agendas of organic movements and NGOs that are represented in certification and the urgent social water problems in the Global South.

scholarly journals Agricultural Certification Programs Implemented inTurkey and the Extent of their Contributions to Environmental Sustainability

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Hasdemir ◽  
Füsun Zehra Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
International Regulations ◽  
Negative Impacts

The negative impacts of global-scale developments and consumption habits on the environment are increasing each day. In this context, studies are conducted worldwide by many institutions and non-governmental organizations to support environmental policies. Additionally, certification programs are being executed by conformity assessment bodies to mitigate the impacts of production processes on the environment. These management systems or certification programs are either used on a voluntary basis or made mandatory by company policy, national or international regulations. The certification programs were firstly started to be used in industry and service sectors and are currently being used in agriculture sector. The certification programs used in agriculture sector aim to ensure an environmentally-friendly agricultural production process and improve consumer trust and satisfaction. This study aims to address the extent to which implementation of ISO/IEC 17065 Standard based organic and good agricultural practices and GLOBALG.A.P. certification programs and ISO 14001 Management System Standard have contributed to environmental sustainability in Turkey.

scholarly journals Fundamentally Important Ideas of Socio-Integrative Approach in University Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Tagirovich Mukhametshin
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
University Education ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Common Understanding

The article is devoted to clarifying the content and principles of socially-integrative approach in university education based on the fundamentalization of education. The purpose of the study is to consider the socio-integrative approach as a significant idea in the implementation of university education. The following research methods were used: theoretical analysis of interdisciplinary literature, interpretation, synthesis, generalization and summarization. As a result, the theoretical basis of integration was formalized, and a set of principles was identified: voluntariness, adequacy, variability, integration and differentiation, motivation and stimulation, with a description of the requirements contained in them for effective implementation of the socio-integrative approach in the implementation of higher university education at the present stage of society development. This is presented for discussion. The conclusions give the reasons for ineffective activity of universities: departmental limitations and interdepartmental disunity; lack of unified organizational and methodological approaches in the implementation of interaction; lack of wide and rationally organized support of public initiatives, activities of non-governmental organizations, which violates their coherence, common understanding of goals and objectives of higher education.

Natural Disasters and Cross-Border Implications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena McLean ◽  
Muhammet Bas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

Natural disasters such as cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanoes, or pandemics routinely have cross-border implications. Transboundary risks of natural disasters tend to be the greatest for neighboring countries but often extend regionally or even globally. Even disasters with seemingly localized impacts contained within the national borders of a given state may have indirect short-term or long-term effects on other countries through refugee flows, conflict spillovers, volatility of global commodity prices, disruption of trade relations, financial flows, or global supply chains. Natural disasters may increase the risk of interstate conflict because of commitment problems, reduced opportunity costs of conflict, shocks to status quo divisions of resources, or demarcation of territories among countries, or because of leaders’ heightened diversionary incentives in favor of conflict. In some cases, disasters may have a pacifying effect on ongoing hostilities by creating opportunities for disaster diplomacy among conflict parties. Population displacement in disaster zones can send refugee flows and other types of migration across borders, with varying short-term and long-term socioeconomic and political effects in home and host countries. Adverse effects of natural disasters on regional and global economic activity shape patterns of international trade and financial flows among countries. To mitigate such risks from natural disasters and facilitate adjustment and recovery efforts, countries may turn to international cooperation through mechanisms for disaster relief and preparedness. Regional and global governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are common means to initiate and maintain such cooperative efforts.

ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF CITY COUNCILS FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
H. Burçin HENDEN ŞOLT
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
City Council ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Heterogeneous Structure ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

The process of change in the management approaches of cities encourages stakeholder participation. Multi-actor, transparent and controllable urban administrations should be the basic vision of modern cities. Because the heterogeneous structure is like a symbol of cities. It is important for the governance approach to have environments where different interest groups can come together for social reconciliation. City councils are examples of this situation. In the understanding of local government, there is a flow in favor of locality. This situation is valuable for local democracy. Effective and efficient participation of urban people in decisions contributes to accountability, social solidarity, and citizen awareness. Members of public, private, and non-governmental organizations can participate in city councils. It is therefore strong in terms of governance. The aim of this study is to examine the place and importance of city councils in terms of urban democracy. First of all, the conceptual framework of the phenomena is emphasized. Then, the roles in the establishment of local democracy through the structure of city councils are discussed. It is possible to realize the principles of governance in the functioning of city councils. Governance and city councils will play an active role in bringing a positive vision to cities. Therefore, city council activities that can work efficiently should be supported.

The Benefits and Costs Of Decarbonizing Costa Rica's Economy: Informing the Implementation of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Plan under Uncertainty

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Groves ◽  
James Syme ◽  
Edmundo Molina-Perez ◽  
Carlos Calvo ◽  
Luis Víctor-Gallardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Livestock Productivity ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Given the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, global leaders are seeking solutions to re-activate their economies while preserving the climate and mitigating the risk of future environmental crises. Costa Ricas National Decarbonization Plan sets the ambitious goal to become carbon neutral by 2050 and lays out a series of actions that government officials, sectoral stakeholders, and more generally Costa Rican citizens would need to implement throughout the economy to decarbonize. The extent to which the implementation of the decarbonization plan can be part of an effort to restart the economy post covid depends on the costs and socioeconomic benefits it entails. In this study, we developed an integrated model that estimates the benefits and costs of implementing the decarbonization plan in all major sectors, informed by consultations with numerous government agencies, industries and non-governmental organizations. In our central scenario, decarbonization brings $41 billion in net benefits to Costa Rica between 2020 and 2050, using a 5 percent discount rate. In the land use sector, reducing emissions would lead to increased agricultural and livestock productivity, and increasing carbon sequestration by forests would lead to greater ecosystem services, such as renewable forestry products, water and soil benefits, and support for tourism and cultural heritage. In the transportation sector, the economic benefits from energy savings, fewer accidents, time saved from reduced congestion, and the reduced negative impacts of air pollution on health more than compensate for the initially higher upfront costs of switching to electric vehicles and building infrastructure for zero-emissions public transport. Energy savings in buildings, efficiency gains in industry, and the economic value of recycled materials and treated water complete our estimates.

INGOs and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

2018 ◽  
pp. 210-230
Author(s):  
Marianne Beisheim ◽  
Anne Ellersiek ◽  
Jasmin Lorch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Collective Goods ◽  
State Governance ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

This chapter analyses two groups of non-profit external non-state governance actors that are active in areas of limited statehood (ALS): international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs). After some examples of the collective goods these actors provide in contexts of limited statehood, their effectiveness is assessed in terms of output, outcome, and impact. It is found that in ALS, the activities of MSPs and INGOs can become part of the solution, but may also exacerbate existing problems. Empirical research shows that it is already demanding for INGOs and MSPs to produce good output in ALS, let alone broader impact. The analysis provides insights on the conditions under which INGOs and MSPs can—and cannot—successfully provide governance in ALS and how their activities impact limited statehood itself. Finally, the findings are discussed against the background of recent trends affecting governance by external state and non-state actors in ALS.

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