Environmental Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne E. Krasny ◽  
Erika S. Svendsen ◽  
Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch ◽  
Johan Enqvist ◽  
Alex Russ
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Urban Environmental Education ◽  
Governance Networks ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between environmental governance and urban environmental education. It first provides an overview of environmental governance and governance networks before discussing research on the prevalence of organizations conducting environmental education in governance networks in Asian, European, and U.S. cities. It then offers suggestions on how environmental education organizations can be effective contributors in urban environmental governance and explains how the role of environmental education in governance can be made transparent to educators and participants. It argues that environmental education organizations are actors in urban governance networks and can play an important role in environmental governance. It also asserts that an explicit focus on governance will enable organizational leaders to target their partnerships and efforts to have a greater impact on urban sustainability and will enable youths and other participants to gain an understanding of critical concepts in environmental management and policy.

Sustainable Campuses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Ashmann ◽  
Felix Pohl ◽  
Dave Barbier
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Urban Environmental Education

This chapter examines sustainable urban campuses and their impact on their students and local communities. It also considers elements of green infrastructure, learning, and community through the lens of urban environmental education trends, namely: City as Classroom, Problem Solving, and Environmental Stewardship. After providing an overview of aspects of sustainable university campuses, the chapter discusses the ways that such campuses address urban sustainability related to infrastructure, teaching and learning, as well as connections to the community. It shows that the built environment and lifestyles are important for urban campuses, given their location in areas of highly concentrated buildings and dense human population. It argues that environmental education in cities can benefit from harnessing the power that lies within a university campus's academic, infrastructural, and community-related resources.

Cities as Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fonseca de Andrade ◽  
Soul Shava ◽  
Sanskriti Menon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global South ◽  
Environmental Narratives ◽  
Urban Environmental Education ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Colonial Histories

This chapter discusses the notion of “cities as opportunities,” drawing on urban experiences lived in the broader geopolitical context of the Global South. It shows that different countries and cities present different conditions and opportunities to address multidimensional social and environmental problems. In the Global South, cities integrate into environmental narratives aspects of their colonial histories and decolonizing viewpoints, which are reflected in educational practices. Environmental education in these cities reflects the ways that people construct perspectives and narratives to frame and address social and environmental issues, while also providing models for other countries seeking to simultaneously address environmental and social justice. The chapter looks at examples of urban environmental education from three countries: South Africa, Brazil, and India. It demonstrates how the intensity of colonial legacies and environmental problems in cities in the Global South makes them “cities as opportunities” for environmental education and urban sustainability.

Exploring the Relationship Between Conservation Agencies and Schools

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Jonathon Leigh Howard
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Degree Of Fragmentation

AbstractThis study's primary aim was to address the lack of accessible information about successful government sector programs in environmental education. In doing so it also explored the role of conservation agencies in schools by quantifying the environmental education resources used and preferred by teachers, and by determining the factors that influenced conservation agencies in the developing these preferred resources. Eighty seven percent of teachers stated they used resources from conservation agencies and sixty three percent of these were from government conservation agencies. Teachers were highly selective of the resources used. Interviews with people involved in developing and implementing the programs most often preferred showed a high level of expertise involved developing such programs. However responses also raised questions about the role of conservation agencies in agenda setting, whether conflicts occur between corporatisation and environmental education, and the degree of fragmentation and territoriality between agencies. It is concluded there are limits to the role conservation agencies can play in school environmental education and that there needs to be greater cooperation in providing school environmental education resources.

scholarly journals Strategic Orientation, Environmental Management Systems, and Eco-Innovation: Investigating the Moderating Effects of Absorptive Capacity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12147
Author(s):  
Chin-Hung Tseng ◽  
Kuo-Hsiung Chang ◽  
Ho-Wen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

Environmental management studies have proposed that firms can achieve substantial cost advantages over competitors and enhance their competitive positions by implementing an environmental management system (EMS). This study further investigates strategic orientation (customer, competitor, and innovation orientation) and focuses on the effect of strategic orientation on EMSs and eco-innovation; it also examines the mediating role of EMSs in the relationship between strategic orientation and eco-innovation. Furthermore, this study investigates the moderating role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between strategic orientation and EMSs. Reliability and validity analyses of a sample of 142 respondents indicated that the study design was effective, consistent, and reliable. The findings indicate that (1) strategic orientation (competitor and innovation orientation) positively influences EMSs, (2) EMSs positively influence eco-innovation, (3) absorptive capacity-enhancing strategic orientation positively influences EMSs, and (4) EMS intermediary strategic orientation positively influences eco-innovation. This study contributes to the theoretical understanding of why some firms exhibit greater proactivity in EMSs than others do.

Climate Change and Cities

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Change Response ◽  
The Relationship

Cities are playing an increasingly important role in addressing climate change, adopting increasingly ambitious policies and plans for addressing its causes and consequences. A substantial body of work has emerged over the last twenty-five years focused on the relationship between cities, urban governance, and climate change response. This review provides a starting point for those interested in climate change and cities, and presents the broad contours of the literature: general overviews, cities in relation to global policy and transnational networks, the forces that shape local policy adoption, the political and institutional dimensions of urban climate governance, and the role of social justice and equity in urban responses to climate change.

Trust and Collaborative Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc J. Stern ◽  
Alexander Hellquist
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Urban Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between urban environmental education programs and urban environmental governance in light of the “deliberative turn”—a shift away from “government” toward “governance,” including in urban planning and policy making, and the acceptance of stakeholder participation and dialogue as crucial elements in governance related to complex urban issues. The deliberative turn emphasizes the importance of public participation, attention to both purposive and inadvertent forms of exclusion, the value of dialogue among stakeholders, and the creation of an environment in which the distorting effects of power are diminished. The chapter examines “wicked” urban sustainability issues that call for collaborative governance based on deliberation and argues that urban environmental literacy should include an understanding of governance and skills related to productive deliberation. It also explains how an understanding of mechanisms for the development of trust can enhance the potential for constructive deliberation and collaborative governance.

Advancing Urbanization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Maddox ◽  
Harini Nagendra ◽  
Thomas Elmqvist ◽  
Alex Russ
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Urban Environmental Education ◽  
Global Environmental

This chapter explains the importance of telling the story of “advancing urbanization”—both the global acceleration of urbanization and the promise offered by urbanization—for urban environmental education. It argues that cities—their design and how we live in them—will be key in our struggle for sustainability, indeed our future. As cities grow, as they are newly created, and as more and more people choose or require them as places to live, our decisions about urban design and city building will determine the outcomes of long-term challenges related to resilience, sustainability, livability, and justice. Rather than being the essential cause of the global environmental dangers we face, cities will be key to success in overcoming these dangers. The chapter examines the role of environmental education in fostering public engagement through clarifying and transmitting the challenges, values, actions, and methods for achieving sustainable, resilient, livable, and just cities.

scholarly journals Integrating environmental management control systems to translate environmental strategy into managerial performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 626-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Rötzel ◽  
Alexander Stehle ◽  
Burkhard Pedell ◽  
Katrin Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Control Systems ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Environmental Strategy ◽  
Managerial Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of environmental management control systems as mechanisms to translate environmental strategy into environmental managerial performance. Design/methodology/approach Based on survey data from 218 firms, the authors test a structural equation model. Findings The results show that environmental management control systems mediate the relationship between environmental strategy and environmental managerial performance. Moreover, the level of integration between regular and environmental management control systems significantly impacts the relationship between environmental management control systems and environmental managerial performance. Therefore, environmental management control systems are important mechanisms to translate environmental strategy into managerial performance, and a high level of integration can reinforce this role. Research limitations/implications The typical shortcomings of survey-based research apply to this study. Originality/value While previous research focuses primarily on environmental performance at the organizational level, this study addresses individual managerial performance with regard to environmental outcomes. In addition, the authors investigate how the level of integration between regular and environmental management control systems influences the relationship between environmental strategy and environmental managerial performance as well as the mediating role of environmental management control systems.

The mediating role of environmental innovation in the relationship between environmental management and firm performance in a multi-stakeholder environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Grekova ◽  
H.J. Bremmers ◽  
J.H. Trienekens ◽  
R.G.M. Kemp ◽  
S.W.F. Omta
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Environmental Innovation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Environmental Process ◽  
The Relationship

Nowadays, firms are increasingly challenged to bridge potentially conflicting economic interests of primary commercial stakeholders and sustainability demands from secondary non-commercial stakeholder groups. While a number of firms view investments in environmental management as disconnected from their value-creating activities, others have reported achieved cost efficiency and differentiation advantages. Prior research suggests that environmental innovation might be the missing link between environmental management and firm performance. However, the mediating effect of environmental innovation in the relationship between environmental management and a firm's performance had not been empirically tested so far. Our paper provides a contribution by conducting an empirical investigation into this possible mediating effect. Although the presumed mediating role of environmental innovation suggests that it is influenced by internal environmental management, environmental innovation literature is especially concerned with the role of external stakeholders in environmental innovation. This study investigates the role of the engagement of stakeholders such as supply chain partners, industry, and public authorities in environmental impact reduction. We hypothesise that environmental innovation positively mediates the relationship between environmental management and firm performance, and that the engagement of stakeholders has a positive impact on environmental innovation. The research model was tested with a variance-based structural equation model using data from 90 Dutch food and beverage firms. The results confirm the positive mediating effect of environmental process innovation on the relationship between environmental management and cost efficiency advantage. Environmental product innovation contributes to a differentiation advantage but it is not significantly influenced by environmental management. So we could not support a positive mediating effect of environmental product innovation on the relationship between environmental management and differentiation advantage. Instead, environmental collaboration with supply chain partners has a strong positive impact on environmental product innovation. It also positively influences environmental process innovation but this influence is much weaker than the influence of internal environmental management. Our findings can assist managers in their decision making regarding the implementation of environmental innovations and environmental collaboration with external parties. The study is also relevant to policy makers as a tool to assess the appropriateness of their policy.

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