Research on the Best Assessment Subjects for the Environmental Protection Performance of Local Party and Government Officials

2011 ◽  
Vol 228-229 ◽  
pp. 963-967
Author(s):  
Jing Kun Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Professional Assessment ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Relative Analysis ◽  
Local Party

This paper first of all provides the guiding principles for choosing assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials: effectiveness, scientificalness and objectivity. Effectiveness includes usefulness, inexpensiveness, and urgency; scientificalness includes professionality, systematicness and representativeness; objectivity includes independence, political rationality and authority. After that, starting from these guiding principles, this paper discusses the process of how to choose the best performance assessment subjects according to the analytical model of stakeholder assessment subjects. And then characteristics of potential assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials are analyzed. At last, through the analytical model of stakeholder assessment subjects and characteristics of potential assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials, this paper makes a relative analysis of the best assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials, and gets a conclusion that professional assessment institutions are the best choice.

UNESCO's University—Industry—Science Partnership Programme (UNISPAR)

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuyuki Aoshima
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
University Industry

Technology-led industrialization has become a main issue in Third World countries and in Eastern and Central Europe. Professors of engineering universities, researchers of public and private institutes, engineers and managers in industry and government officials are becoming deeply involved in technological and socio-economic issues for sustainable industrial development with environmental protection. UNESCO sees cooperation among universities, industry and government as a key strategy in the process of industrialization. This article describes UNESCO's various projects and initiatives designed to establish and encourage such cooperation.

scholarly journals Development and Implementation of the NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. Conservation and Reclamation Standard

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette K. Nixon ◽  
Karen L. Etherington
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Standard Document ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The Right

Currently, under Alberta’s Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and regulations, all pipelines transporting natural gas with an index of 2690 or greater require an approval (Conservation and Reclamation Approval) for the conservation and reclamation activities associated with construction and reclamation of a pipeline. Administratively, Alberta Environmental Protection considers a pipeline requiring an Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act approval as a “Class 1” pipeline. The index is a calculation of length of pipe (in kilometers) multiplied by the outside pipe diameter (in millimeters). NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) has developed and implemented a Conservation & Reclamation (C&R) Standard to streamline the provincial C&R Application process. By re-formatting the currently accepted C&R Application into a Standard document, textual information submitted for an individual project has been reduced, without affecting the quality of environmental planning. The Standard document compiles NGTL’s environmental standard practices and mitigative measures undertaken for all pipelines. It also explains NGTL’s decision-making processes during the design phase of a project. The project-specific document presents issue focused site-specific environmental details in a simplified format The C&R Standard in combination with the project-specific submission form the NGTL C&R Application. NGTL’s C&R Standard was developed within a concept which uses key building blocks to achieve industry accountability. This concept requires an organization to have performance measurement tools in place, and to demonstrate commitment to that performance in order to earn public confidence. Once this confidence is established and maintained, an organization can realize industry accountability. Considering this concept, NGTL leveraged past performance and experience by documenting our consistent approach to pipeline design, and our performance measurement criteria into the C&R Standard. Fundamental to the development of the Standard was NGTL’s Platform Design Concept. Initially this design concept was adopted as an integral component of NGTL’s business need to reduce and streamline internal processes. This concept was then applied to external processes in an effort to meet business needs. The Standard includes two primary components, Guiding Principles and Platforms. By combining NGTL Guiding Principles (‘What’ and ‘Why’) and NGTL Platforms (‘How’), the Concept provides a systematic design guide for all projects that allows NGTL to make the right decisions based on the right design criteria. NGTL submitted the C&R Standard document to Alberta Environmental Protection for review in July 1997 and is currently implementing the Standard for all C&R Applications. This paper describes the development of the document as well as the implementation process and experience of the Standard.

scholarly journals Thinking Like a Mountain: Exploring the Potential of Relational Approaches for Transformative Nature Conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12884
Author(s):  
J Marc Foggin ◽  
Daniele Brombal ◽  
Ali Razmkhah
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Lasting Change

Building on a review of current mainstream paradigms of nature conservation, the essence of transformations necessary for effective and lasting change are presented—namely, convivial solutions (or ‘living with others’), in which relationality and an appreciation of our interdependencies are central, in contrast to life-diminishing models of individualism and materialism/secularism. We offer several areas for improvement centred on regenerative solutions, moving beyond conventional environmental protection or biophysical restoration and focusing instead on critical multidimensional relationships—amongst people and between people and the rest of nature. We focus, in particular, on the potential of people’s values and worldviews to inform morality (guiding principles and/or beliefs about right and wrong) and ethics (societal rules defining acceptable behaviour), which alone can nurture the just transformations needed for nature conservation and sustainability at all scales. Finally, we systematize the potential of regenerative solutions against a backdrop of relational approaches in sustainability sciences. In so doing, we contribute to current endeavours of the conservation community for more inclusive conservation, expanding beyond economic valuations of nature and protected areas to include more holistic models of governance that are premised on relationally-oriented value systems.

scholarly journals Does Whistleblowing Work for Air Pollution Control in China? A Study Based on Three-party Evolutionary Game Model under Incomplete Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunpeng Yang ◽  
Weixin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Replicator Dynamics ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Game Model ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Local Government Officials

During China’s air pollution campaign, whistleblowing has become an important way for the central government to discover local environmental issues. The three parties involved in whistleblowing are: the central government environmental protection departments, the local government officials, and the whistleblowers. Based on these players, this paper has constructed an Evolutionary Game Model under incomplete information and introduced the expected return as well as replicator dynamics equations of various game agents based on analysis of the game agents, assumptions, and payoff functions of the model in order to study the strategic dynamic trend and stability of the evolutionary game model. Furthermore, this paper has conducted simulation experiments on the evolution of game agents’ behaviors by combining the constraints and replicator dynamics equations. The conclusions are: the central environmental protection departments are able to effectively improve the environmental awareness of local government officials by measures such as strengthening punishment on local governments that do not pay attention to pollution issues and lowering the cost of whistleblowing, thus nurturing a good governance and virtuous circle among the central environmental protection departments, local government officials, and whistleblowers. Based on the study above, this paper has provided policy recommendations in the conclusion.

Bureaucracy Meets the Environment: Elite Perceptions in Six Chinese Cities

2007 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 100-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanqi Tong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Environmental Protection Policies ◽  
The Cost

A survey of local government officials and enterprise managers in six Chinese cities demonstrates relatively high environmental awareness. However, this awareness remains primarily an abstraction and does not always shape specific policy preferences. This article shows that the development-driven model works well overall, indicating the reluctance of policy makers to implement environmental protection policies at the cost of sacrificing the rate of economic growth. The pollution-driven model applies only to more developed areas, in which elites in more polluted cities are more concerned about environmental protection than those in less polluted cities. A non-linear model that takes into account the interaction between pollution and development works the best in explaining elites' policy preferences. It suggests that pollution becomes a significant factor affecting policy preferences only when a certain development level is reached.

Open Data in a Big Data World

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Scientific Process ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Global Research

AbstractFour major international science organisations (ICSU, ISSC, IAP and TWAS) have joined together to develop and support an accord that includes a set of guiding principles on open access to big data, which is necessary to protect the scientific process and assure that developing countries can participate more fully in the global research enterprise. Limits on access to big data knowledge, they warn, raises the risk that progress will slow in areas such as advanced health research, environmental protection, food productio,n and the development of smart cities.

Dialogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Patrick Miller ◽  
Dianna Bell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Spiritual Leaders ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter brings together Hindu and Muslim thought on climate change in specific local contexts in India and Mali. The dialogue uncovers deep themes of economic power, environmental epistemology, and power politics that emerge from the intersection of two essays. The power to flourish depends on politics as much as religion, it seems. We will see the roles played by government officials, bureaucrats, and spiritual leaders as both India and Mali negotiate the relationship between citizens and the natural environment. Government and bio-spiritual voices, potentially at odds, would do better to work together. The chapter ends with provocative and practical suggestions toward localizing environmental protection that might be achieved via the collaboration of these two voices.

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