Agenda 21 and Climate Protection: The Development of Global and Local Governance for Environment and Development – Observations from Research in Namibia

2013 ◽  
pp. 621-661
Author(s):  
Manfred O. Hinz
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Global And Local

Glocal Conservatism

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Relli Shechter
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Business Press ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Philip Morris ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
New Tradition

Observers of Saudi society have often expressed bewilderment toward seemingly growing contradictions between “old” and “new,” “tradition” and “modernity,” “authentic” and “foreign,” or “Islamic” and “non-Islamic” in an age of mass consumption. Glocal conservatism in marketing decoupled such conceived binary oppositions, and therefore, the insurmountable tensions they implied. A unique mélange of global and local marketing practices facilitated new consumption patterns and social stratification based on consumption in the making of a Saudi mass consumer society. Glocal conservatism in marketing was encouraged through state discourse and Five-Year Plans; consumers’; selective participation in markets; and self-motivated or self-regulated enterprises. It further enhanced an existing sociocultural order, identity and ideal, as well as local governance. This article studies this critical phase in the remaking of Saudi Arabia using contemporary business press; literature on “doing business”; academic writings on local marketing; Philip Morris’;—a tobacco multinational—records; and by analyzing ads from Okaz, a Saudi daily.

scholarly journals O desenvolvimento urbano sustentável – uma utopia possível?

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulma das Graças Lucena SCHUSSEL
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Local Agenda 21 ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Relationship

O século XX, ao mesmo tempo em que se caracterizou pela associação do conceito de desenvolvimento ao uso e consumo crescentes do solo, das fontes de energia e dos recursos naturais de forma geral, deu origem à formação das concentrações metropolitanas. Essas concentrações aglutinaram ao longo do tempo fortes processos de degradação ambiental. Uma das respostas encontradas para essas questões vem sendo dada pela Agenda 21, adotada por aproximadamente 179 países na Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, em 1992, no Rio de Janeiro. A presente reflexão trata das diferenças entre as Agendas 21 locais desenvolvidas nos países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. Propõe a discussão sobre o inter-relacionamento das questões socioambientais do município com o espaço regional e as decorrentes limitações na implementação dos propósitos da Agenda 21 local. Sustainable urban development – a possible utopia? Abstract The 20th century has been characterized by the association of the developmental concept with the increasing use and ground consumption, the energy sources and the natural resources in general. At the same time, the metropolitan concentrations formation began and generates, throught out the years, an strong process of environmental degradation. One of the answers founded for these questions has been given through the Agenda 21, adopted by approximately 179 countries in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in 1992, at Rio de Janeiro. The present reflection is about the differences between the local Agenda 21 implemented in the developed countries and in the developing countries. It proposes the discussion about the relationship between the municipality’s social and environmental issues and regional space and the consequent limitations at the implementation of the Agenda 21 purposes.

AGENDA 21: Biotechnology at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo R. Taylhardat ◽  
Raymond A. Zilinskas
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The United Nations

The Legal Mandate of Multilateral Development Banks as Agents for Change Toward Sustainable Development

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Handl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Multilateral Development Banks ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Development Banks

In its June 1997 review of the state of the global environment and the implementation of Agenda 21, five years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the UN General Assembly drew a rather gloomy picture. While acknowledging that some progress toward sustainable development had been made, for example, in curbing pollution and slowing the rate of resource degradation in a number of countries, the Assembly’s report noted that, overall, trends tended toward continued deterioration. Not surprisingly, therefore, the report also reiterated Agenda 21’s call upon, inter alia, multilateral development banks (MDBs) to ensure that development funding “contribute to economic growth, social development and environmental protection in the context of sustainable development.” The report, in short, enjoined MDBs to strengthen their commitment to sustainable development.

Global and local governance, industrial and geographical dynamics: A tale of two clusters

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1453-1473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengjun Zhu ◽  
Canfei He
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Industrial Upgrading ◽  
Local Embeddedness ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article closely examines two industrial clusters in China, and compares the various adaptations these two clusters have undergone, as well as the mechanisms underlying the industrial and geographical dynamics within these two clusters. Specifically, based on recent field investigation and in-depth interviews during 2011–2014, we examine two types of local governance, and pay attention to the articulation between “governance within global value chains” and “governance within local clusters,” and to how global and local governance co-shape the ways in which and the extents to which local firms participate in the global economy, producing diverse geographies of production and generating diverse trajectories of regional development. The article concludes that local and global governance co-determine domestic firms’ upgrading sources, the strength of their local embeddedness, and the ways in which they conduct spatial and organizational restructuring, such as factory consolidation, factory closure, industrial upgrading, and geographical relocation.

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