Book Review: "Environment and Sustainability Policy — Creation, Implementation, Evaluation", Stephen Dovers

Pulis, Alan

doi:10.1142/s1464333206002499

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“…The transportation mainly contributes to negative effects through their ICE which produces (i) GHG emissions which contains CO2 and NO2 [34,35], (ii) other hydrocarbon particles [34] and (iii) noise, dust, water and ocean pollutions [34,36]. Meanwhile, social sustainability in the context of logistics and supply chains are (i) process or products which affect the safety and welfare of people [37], (ii) "the management of social issues such as equity, safety and health, product responsibility, human rights, and philanthropy throughout the supply chain" [38] and (iii) "the health and wellbeing of people in the supply chain and impact on society" [39]. Thus, it can be literally said that social sustainability is focusing on human right, safety and welfare.…”

Section: Socio-environment Sustainabilitymentioning

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Green Vehicles, Incentives and Policies: A View from Logistics Companies in Malaysia

Zawawi

Yaacob

Wahab

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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There are limited green solutions have been offered to reduce pollutions caused by logistics transportation as compared to passenger vehicles. Thus, this paper aims to reveal insights from logistics companies on the perspective of policies of sustainability including financial and non-financial incentives from the government of Malaysia in assisting them to obtain socio-environment sustainability and consequently to contribute to the effectiveness of the country’s Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this objective, data were gathered from 134 logistics companies in Malaysia, listed in the Malaysian Logistics Directory 2018/2019. They were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software. Utilizing descriptive and correlation analyses, the findings indicated that logistics companies inherently need government support in terms of incentives and supportive policy in order to attain the country’s socio-environmental sustainability. Based on the findings, this paper, firstly suggests that the government needs to find a better solution to reduce the environmental impact from logistics transportation from its root, which is achieved by integrating green motor vehicle into logistics transportation. Secondly, the government should develop relevant sustainable policies which guide logistics companies to comply accordingly. This study contributes a new insight into socio-environmental sustainability of logistics industry.

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Section: Socio-environment Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Vehicles, Incentives and Policies: A View from Logistics Companies in Malaysia

Zawawi

Yaacob

Wahab

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Locating Communities in Natural Resource Management

Harrington

Curtis

Black

2008

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Getting the Message Across Biodiversity Science and Policy Interfaces – A Review

Spierenburg¹

2012

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

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125espite the involvement of scientists in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the organization of a number of high-profile scientific biodiversity assessments such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), there is still a dominant narrative positing a huge gap between science and policy. Scientists complain that their warnings and urgent calls for action to conserve biodiversity do not seem to be taken seriously, and that scientific knowledge is ignored in the debates about agreements or policies, or "replaced by rhetoric" (Dietz and Stern 1998, p. 441). Some policy-makers indeed may ignore scientific knowledge that does not support their preferred policy options, while others complain they do not know what action to take given the uncertainty of some scientific conclusions. Yet, science is not undisputed either, as last year's public debates on Climategate showed, when scientists participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were accused of manipulating data to suit their own policy preferences.Some of the problems with the biodiversity science-policy nexus may stem very well, according to Dietz and Stern (1998) as well as Koetz et al. (2009Koetz et al. ( , 2008, from unreasonable expectations about how and how much science can contribute to wise decision-making. Often a technocratic approach is expected, both by researchers and policy-makers, in which science provides knowledge and information about the impacts of certain choices, and policy-makers use this information to design policies.However, in practice, the policy-making process is far from straightforward. Poli cy-makers have to weigh different socio-economic benefits and costs which are based on the values of biodiversity to society (Dietz and Stern 1998). To complicate matters, some of these valuations are subjective and emotional interpretations -both by policy-makers and their constituents (Bhattacharya et al. 2005). At the international level, trust -or a lack thereof -between states, especially in relation to capacities and the distribu tion of costs and benefits, also plays an important role in decision-making (Jessel 2012, Koetz et al. 2009. Each decision affects biodiversity, and effects take place at and across different scales, rendering both scientific predictions and decision-making complicated. > Getting the Message Across AbstractThis contribution analyses the difficulties of biodiversity policy-making and the role of science. It addresses biodiversity scientists' struggles to communicate the value of biodiversity to policy-makers, and the tensions between producing policyrelevant research and being perceived as too prescriptive.The author argues that it is important for biodiversity scientists to acknowledge and engage with the political aspects of biodiversity policies. A first step is to recognize the diversity of valuations and preferences among various stakeholders of different trade-offs, and the power relations between the stakeholders. A transparent presentation of a broad range of polic...

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Book Review: "Environment and Sustainability Policy — Creation, Implementation, Evaluation", Stephen Dovers

Cited by 5 publications

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Green Vehicles, Incentives and Policies: A View from Logistics Companies in Malaysia

Green Vehicles, Incentives and Policies: A View from Logistics Companies in Malaysia

Locating Communities in Natural Resource Management

Getting the Message Across Biodiversity Science and Policy Interfaces – A Review

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