scholarly journals The risks of using REDD+ to manage rich socio-ecological systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Vincent Martin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brand Competitiveness ◽  
Good Management Practice ◽  
Policy Risk ◽  
The Many

REDD+ is an important development in environmental and social justice policy instruments. However, its success depends on a network of complex contingencies, and the achievement of difficult governance transformations in countries that are under severe economic pressure. It ought be obvious that there are significant risks associated with this endeavour, but overt risk management, using standard approaches, is not evident. This paper highlights some of the many risks that the governance of REDD+ (in common with most environmental policy innovations) needs to pay attention to in order to avoid policy failure. There are eight distinct elements that have to work for the REDD+ program to achieve its public policy goals, and each of these carries its own risk. These are: securitisation of carbon sequestration; protection for complex non-carbon values, ensuring the integrity of the supply of credit; multi-level administration and aggregation of tradeable carbon interests; managing the social and economic imbalance of interests; deploying new methods for measurement and securitisation of interests; ensuring a platform of rules, administrative and enforcement systems, teams and intelligence networks; and achieving price and ‘brand’ competitiveness in a crowded carbon offsets marketplace. Although the issues listed in this paper are not comprehensive, they highlight major concerns and support the argument that a comprehensive and systematic approach to policy risk is likely to add value to the REDD+ implementation. The paper suggests that good management practice would separate risk management from policy or instrument development, and embed this aspect of good governance with a sufficient level of authority to ensure that the negative potentials are managed with a degree of vigour consistent with the importance of the issues.

A Goal-Driven Risk Management Approach to Support Security and Privacy Analysis of Cloud-Based System

2013 ◽  
pp. 97-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shareeful Islam ◽  
Haralambos Mouratidis ◽  
Edgar R. Weippl
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Share Data ◽  
Potential Risk Factors ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
The Many

Cloud Computing is a rapidly evolving paradigm that is radically changing the way humans use their computers. Despite the many advantages, such as economic benefit, a rapid elastic resource pool, and on-demand service, the paradigm also creates challenges for both users and providers. There are issues, such as unauthorized access, loss of privacy, data replication, and regulatory violation that require adequate attention. A lack of appropriate solutions to such challenges might cause risks, which may outweigh the expected benefits of using the paradigm. In order to address the challenges and associated risks, a systematic risk management practice is necessary that guides users to analyze both benefits and risks related to cloud based systems. In this chapter the authors propose a goal-driven risk management modeling (GSRM) framework to assess and manage risks that supports analysis from the early stages of the cloud-based systems development. The approach explicitly identifies the goals that the system must fulfill and the potential risk factors that obstruct the goals so that suitable control actions can be identified to control such risks. The authors provide an illustrative example of the application of the proposed approach in an industrial case study where a cloud service is deployed to share data amongst project partners.

scholarly journals Public Real Estate Management System in the Procedural Approach – A Case Study of Poland and Slovakia

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Gross ◽  
Ryszard Źróbek ◽  
Daniela Špirková
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Management System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Procedural Approach ◽  
Good Management Practice ◽  
Estate Management ◽  
Real Estate Management

Abstract Public real estate management is performed according to country-specific procedures. However, there are some features which are common for all post-socialist countries. It may be possible to implement and transfer into the Polish system the good management practice which has been developed by leading countries. On the other hand, Poles may have a chance to become acquainted with the rules governing public real estate management in other countries and to identify some practices which ought to be avoided. There is no need to implement faithfully those procedures which in other countries have been recognized as generally inadequate or inefficient and have been replaced by new solutions. This pertains to some principal components of the real estate management system. The aim of the paper has been to present public real estate management systems in Poland and Slovakia in the context of good governance, and to suggest some indicators for assessing the procedures in these systems in terms of their efficiency.

scholarly journals Risk Management in Waqf Institutions: A Preliminary Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-219
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mahyuddin Khalid ◽  
Mohd Ashrof Zaki Yaakob ◽  
Azri Bhari ◽  
Mohd Faiz Mohamed Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Modern Management ◽  
Management Function ◽  
Preliminary Study

Modern management practice has put greater emphasize on the principles of accountability and transparency. Along with the revival of Islamic institutions, there are call by the stakeholder for management of waqf institutions to adopt modern management practice to improve their efficiency in managing waqf asset. As part of good governance and best practices of waqf institutions, management of risk is fundamental to the proper functioning of any institution including waqf to ensure the accountability of mutawalli (waqf manager) and transparency of the management. Studies on risk management practices on Islamic institution indicate that risk come across in many different ways; financial, personnel, program and capital expenditure decisions due to interactions with economic, political and social environments. However, the dissimilarity of management practices of waqf asset could be due to the absence of risk management function for waqf institutions. This paper aims at exploring the major themes that constitute the basis of the discussion on accountability in waqf institutions. In doing this, the theoretical underpinnings and the existing research relating to waqf investment and its risk management practice are examined.

scholarly journals Current and Emerging Disaster Risks Perceptions in Oceania: Key Stakeholders Recommendations for Disaster Management and Resilience Building

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Cuthbertson ◽  
Jose Rodriguez-Llanes ◽  
Andrew Robertson ◽  
Frank Archer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Disaster Risk Management ◽  
Disaster Impact ◽  
Key Informant

Identification and profiling of current and emerging disaster risks is essential to inform effective disaster risk management practice. Without clear evidence, readiness to accept future threats is low, resulting in decreased ability to detect and anticipate these new threats. A consequential decreased strategic planning for mitigation, adaptation or response results in a lowered resilience capacity. This study aimed to investigate threats to the health and well-being of societies associated with disaster impact in Oceania. The study used a mixed methods approach to profile current and emerging disaster risks in selected countries of Oceania, including small and larger islands. Quantitative analysis of the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) provided historical background on disaster impact in Oceania from 2000 to 2018. The profile of recorded events was analyzed to describe the current burden of disasters in the Oceania region. A total of 30 key informant interviews with practitioners, policy managers or academics in disaster management in the Oceania region provided first-hand insights into their perceptions of current and emerging threats, and identified opportunities to enhance disaster risk management practice and resilience in Oceania. Qualitative methods were used to analyze these key informant interviews. Using thematic analysis, we identified emerging disaster risk evidence from the data and explored new pathways to support decision-making on resilience building and disaster management. We characterized perceptions of the nature and type of contemporary and emerging disaster risk with potential impacts in Oceania. The study findings captured not only traditional and contemporary risks, such as climate change, but also less obvious ones, such as plastic pollution, rising inequality, uncontrolled urbanization, and food and water insecurity, which were perceived as contributors to current and/or future crises, or as crises themselves. The findings provided insights into how to improve disaster management more effectively, mainly through bottom-up approaches and education to increase risk-ownership and community action, enhanced political will, good governance practices and support of a people-centric approach.

scholarly journals Factors Contributing to Social Risk Management in China: Evaluation in the Context of SSRA Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Zezhao Liu ◽  
Jie Huang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Concern ◽  
And Performance

Managing social risk has become a policy concern in contemporary public administration. In China, the Social Stability Risk Assessment (SSRA) was conceived as a government-driven and performance-based system to tackle the challenges of social instability, with the last decade witnessing an increasing imperative to promote its implementation. In practice, local administrations have asserted the importance of social risk management in improving the capability of handling uncertainties, yet studies on SSRA effectiveness are relatively limited. To fill the gap, this paper examines factors for mobilizing local administrators in implementing effective SSRA enforcement through a framework constructed from the perspective of government agencies. Using field survey data collected from four provincial regions, we refined five theoretical constructs and affiliated thirty-five items critical for SSRA operational effectiveness, and found that administrative intervention by the local government plays a crucial role. This study contributes to an understanding of China’s social risk management practice, and offers assessment criteria to monitor its effectiveness in public administration.

Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian Perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir

1969 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveeda Khan
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Physical Entity ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many

We begin with the words of rural and riverine women from Bangladesh recalling the events of their children's deaths by drowning. These events are cast as the work of supernatural beings, specifically Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir, who compel the mothers into forgetfulness and entice the children to the water. Is this a disavowal of loss and responsibility? This article considers that the women, specifically those from northern Bangladesh, assert not only their understanding of the losses that they have suffered but also their changing relationship to the river and its changing nature through their evocations of mythological figures. Alongside the many experiences of the river, the article takes note of its experience as paradoxical, with paradoxicality serving as the occasion for the coming together of the mythological, the material, and the social. The article draws upon Alfred North Whitehead to interrelate the strata of myths and their permutations, with the women's experiences of the river, and the river as a physical entity, allowing us to explore how the women's expressions portend the changing climate.

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