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- Christopher Koliba & Megan Egler & Stephen Posner & Robert Costanza & Jon D. Erickson & Joshua Farley & Ida Kubiszewski (2020): Governing for sustainable development: rethinking governance and ecological economics
This chapter focuses on the relationship between ecological economics and robust interpretations of governance systems and networks. ... The treatment of governance within the political science and public administration fields, as well as those who have tended to focus exclusively on the relationship between environmental governance and environmental policy is considered. Third, we examine how global scale considerations of sustainability of social ecological systems treat governance, and how the ecological economics field has historically approached questions of governance. We consider the place and purpose of governance within two of the more recent global frameworks focused on the sustainable management of social ecological systems: the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ... We conclude with a set of enduring questions that can shape future considerations of the relationship between governance and ecological economics.
RePEc:elg:eechap:18954_15 Save to MyIDEAS - Constantin MINDRICELU (2014): Developments in Accounting for Environmental Expenditure
In order to build a sustainable economic society with a low environmental impact, the private sector and the general government must identify and implement active or voluntary tools capable of influencing the carrying out of the socio-economic activities as to ensure their sustainability. Highlighting the economic phenomena and manner of operation of their in economics is achieved by high synthesis indicators produced by national accounting. Responding to these demands, the UN Statistics Division, together with Eurostat and national statistical offices have initiated a diversification of statistical tools for creating of the indicators which extend the statistics beyond the GDP .An explicit requirement to address environmental economic accounts at European level is expressed by the European statistical program developed and monitored by Eurostat. Within this legal framework program was created to collect data on environmental accounts by Regulation no. 691 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 on European environmental economic accounts and updated by Regulation no. 538/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 2014.In this category of accounts includes environmental expenditure account (EPEA), focusing, in particular, highlighting what is and how environmental activities are carried out.This article presents experimental estimates of environmental protection expenditure in Romania from 2008 to 2011.In the first part of the article presents several conceptual issues of satellite account of environmental expenditures, respective: objectives and options that responds account of environmental expenditures, classification of environmental activities and classification of the units engaged in these activities. ... In the second part of the article presents several examples of applications the EPEA at European and national level.
RePEc:rsr:supplm:v:62:y:2014:i:7:p:132-152 Save to MyIDEAS - Keefer, Philip (2005): Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed?
This paper identifies systematic performance differences between younger and older democracies: younger democracies are more corrupt; exhibit less rule of law, lower levels of bureaucratic quality, and lower secondary school enrollments; and spend more on public investment and government workers.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:3594 Save to MyIDEAS - Lindauer, David L. (1988): Government pay and employment policies and government performance in developing economies
The aim of this paper is to offer a systematic examination of government pay and employment trends in developing nations. In section I, the difficulties inherent in analyzing government pay and employment policies are considered. ... Section II highlights the problems generated by inappropriate government pay and employment policies. Most attention is given however to how government performance as a provider of goods and services is affected by inappropriate pay offers or the pursuit of independant government employment objectives. Section III presents the available evidence on recent trends in government pay and employment in developing nations.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:42 Save to MyIDEAS - Anthony Donnellan (2007): Is the National Water Commission an appropriate institutional and governance structure to address the fundamental requirements of the water and irrigation industry in Australia?
The National Water Commission (NWC) and the $2 billion Australian Government Water Fund (the fund) has drawn attention to the need for innovative and adaptive practices for water use. ... The underlying issue of the efficient allocation of water resources can be resolved by the harmonisation of competing demands (economic, social and environmental) and the establishment of governance structures to reduce institutional impediments. The linking of the fund to National Competition Council (NCC) payments is an important consideration in this process. This paper will argue that governance reform and institutional (re)alignment to remedy the impediments to the efficient allocation of water resources needs to be embedded in and linked to national competition policy principles.
RePEc:spr:envsyd:v:27:y:2007:i:1:d:10.1007_s10669-007-9009-8 Save to MyIDEAS - Oates, Wallace E. (2001): A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism
This paper provides a review and assessment of the debate over environmental federalism-the issue of the roles of different levels of government in environmental management. ... The paper contends that there remains, under certain circumstances, an important role for decentralized government in the setting of environmental standards and the design of regulatory programs. The central government, in addition to setting standards for "national" pollutants, has a fundamental contribution to make in supporting research in environmental science and pollution control technology and in providing needed information and guidance to state and local governments.
RePEc:ags:rffdps:10460 Save to MyIDEAS - Michael Howes & Liana Wortley & Ruth Potts & Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes & Silvia Serrao-Neumann & Julie Davidson & Timothy Smith & Patrick Nunn (2017): Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?
For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many respects the situation is getting worse. ... A systematic review of the literature reveals that the failure to achieve the intended outcomes of environmental policies is due to economic, political and communication factors. Conflict between the objectives of environmental policies and those focused on economic development, a lack of incentives to implement environmental policies, and a failure to communicate objectives to key stakeholders are all key factors that contribute to the inability to attain environmental sustainability.
RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:9:y:2017:i:2:p:165-:d:88695 Save to MyIDEAS - Mariya Bobina & Mikhail Grachev (2023): Environmental Challenges to National Competitiveness and Stakeholders’ Response: A Case of the Russian Federation
The chapter explores mixed environmental effects on national competitiveness in emerging markets by focusing on the Russian Federation, the largest country in the world with an extraction-based economy characterized by an orientation toward hydrocarbon exports but limited by ineffective sustainability practices. We acknowledge the relatively greater role of “factor conditions” in the Russian Federation’s national competitiveness and discuss opportunities and threats that climate change and the evolution of the natural environment bring to the Russian Federation’s economic development. ... At the same time though, we do acknowledge the visible shift in recent years among selected stakeholders’ approaches to environmental challenges as evidenced in the government’s new policies and large state-owned and state-controlled companies’ strategies that emphasize sustainability and response to climate change. Furthermore, we state that the role of a large group of medium and small businesses is indifferent to environmental challenges and the role of civil society while highlighting the current limited role of activist groups in sustainable development.
RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811268090_0011 Save to MyIDEAS - Commander, Simon & Davoodi, Hamid R. & Lee, Une J. (1997): The causes of government and the consequences for growth and well-being
Using a large cross-country data set, the authors examine the factors that cause governments to grow, and analyze how the size of government affects growth, whether measured as income growth or other measures of well-being, such as infant mortality and life expectancy. They find no robust link between government size and per capita income. ... Their results also partially support the view that governments use consumption to buffer external risk, especially in low-income countries. As for how government size affects growth, they find a robust and significant negative relationship between growth and government size, as measured by consumption. ... But the positive effects of well-functioning institutions and high quality in government bureaucracies can offset the negative influence of large government size alone.
RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:1785 Save to MyIDEAS - Charlotta Söderberg (2014): What drives sub-national bioenergy development? Exploring cross-level implications of environmental policy integration in EU and Swedish bioenergy policy
What are the sub-national implications, in policy and practice, of environmental policy integration (EPI) in EU and Swedish bioenergy policy? Focusing on the exceptional bioenergy expansion within the Biofuel Region in north Sweden, this paper discusses cross-level implications of supranational and national policy decisions on bioenergy; whether environmental perspectives are observable also in sub-national bioenergy discussions; and explores the drivers of sub-national bioenergy development in a multi-level governance setting. The study finds that higher-level EPI plays an important role for sub-national bioenergy development. The degree of sub-national EPI in bioenergy and the type of renewables invested in is to a large extent set by top-down influence from the EU and national level through agenda setting, policy goals and economic mechanisms. Local policy entrepreneurs play an important role for finding ‘win-win’-solutions that can help initiating local energy projects and ensure sub-national EPI, but environmental-economic – rather than merely economic – motives for getting involved are important to ensure long-term local commitment to renewable energy projects.
RePEc:egr:ejge00:v:3:i:2:p:119-137 Save to MyIDEAS