Communities as informal regulators: new arrangements in industrial pollution control in Viet Nam

Phuong, Phung Thuy; Mol, A.P.J.

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“…In addition, innovations in environmental monitoring relate to the globalisation of information systems, for example, those related to advanced model-based global information on for instance, greenhouse gases or global monitoring by environmental satellites. (16) Although the construction of these global systems is monopolised by (15) See Brettel, 2004;Dasgupta and Wheeler, 1996;O'Rourke, 2004;Phung and Mol, 2004; for examples and effects of complaint systems and community-driven regulation in China and Vietnamötwo systems which are still strongly state dominated. Northern actors, access and use of these systems is less so but still runs along the lines of the digital divide, raising critical issues of informational democracy.…”

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Environmental Governance in the Information Age: The Emergence of Informational Governance

Mol

2006

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Environment and information Environmental knowledge and information, and especially natural-science-based knowledge and information on the natural environment, has beenöand still isöa formative factor in the design of environmental protection measures, policies, and strategies. During the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists studying the environment largely neglected, or took for granted, the subject of environmental knowledge and information. It has only been since the late 1980s that environmental social scientists have started to pay significant attention to information in understanding efforts at environmental restructuring and reform. There are three main reasons to reconsider the contemporary role of knowledge and information in environmental reform. First, the amount of available environmental knowledge and information is growing on almost all environmental issues, for all kinds of decisionmakers (private and public, institutional and individual), through increasing scientific research, monitoring practices, information storage capacity, information transport, and scientific understanding. Here, environmental information refers not only to information on the state of the environment, or on the`additions and withdrawals' (the emissions and exploitation of natural resources), but to a wider category of knowledge and information, in any form, that has relevance for dealing with environmental challenges. (1) Second, up to now, the attention of social scientists on environmental knowledge and information has been

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Environmental Governance in the Information Age: The Emergence of Informational Governance

Mol

2006

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“…To extend the legacy of Beck's work, this paper is in line with a number of small sample qualitative studies carried out in Asia with the aim of addressing the gaps in cosmopolitan theorisation (Phuong and Mol 2004;Tyfield and Urry 2009;Zhang 2010Zhang , 2012. In what follows, this paper first demonstrates how the food crisis in China is an epitome of modern risks to which the Good Food Movement sets out to address.…”

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Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl: a case study of China’s good food movement

Zhang

2017

Journal of Risk Research

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Ulrich Beck fundamentally transformed our way of thinking about human interdependence through his three core theses on risk, individualisation and cosmopolitanisation. However, two commonly observed deficiencies in Beck's grand theory were its Eurocentric orientation and a lack of empirical grounding. Based on 5 focus groups and 14 interviews with participants of the emerging Clean Food Movement in China, this paper extends the Beckian discussion outside Europe. Through examining how individuals understand both 'traditional' and 'new' risks associated with contemporary food consumption, this paper demonstrates that in the face of unpredictable and incalculable harms, risks are not seen as a 'thing' , but are translated into 'causal relations' . Subsequently, for Chinese stakeholders, the best way to safeguard food risks is to enact more visible and functioning interdependent relations in the food system. This in turn has given rise to new forms of communities which cut across conventional geographic, socio-economic and political boundaries. The paper deepens a Beckian theorisation in two ways. First, it demonstrates that the 'enabling' effect of risk towards a cosmopolitan society is not limited to obvious global crises, such as climate catastrophes and financial meltdown. In fact, the mundane yet intimate concern of putting 'good' food in one's dinner bowl already presses actors to form new social solidarities that are cosmopolitan in nature. Second, it goes beyond Beck's assertion that the risk society has culminated in a cosmopolitan moment, and explores how a performative cosmopolitan community reshapes the 'relations of definition' to mitigate risks on the ground.

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“…On the other hand, in regard to the costs or risks associated with the adoption of environmentally friendly technologies, size-with smaller firms being more inclined towards violating environmental laws (Wu, 2009); poor financial performance and low relational social capital (Khan et al, 2013); the social vulnerability of the surrounding communities (Phuong & Mol, 2004); and pessimistic attitudes towards the effectiveness of government regulations (Liston-Heyes et al, 2014) are identified in the literature as key factors that lead to poor environmental management in polluting firms.…”

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Polluting SMEs and the construction of their environmental behaviours: Evidence from Bangladesh

2020

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This paper investigates how and under what conditions polluting SMEs (small-scale firms that produce or deal with environmentally sensitive goods such as plastics, hazardous chemicals, textiles, and rawhides) in developing countries address the environmental issues related to their activities-a broadly neglected and under-studied research agenda. Utilising extensive qualitative data drawn from SMEs operating in two of the most polluting industries in Bangladesh-leather tanning and textile dyeing-and a contextual lens from a developing country perspective, this paper provides insights into the construction of the environmental behaviours enacted by polluting SMEs. The analysis suggests that such behaviours are constructed under a number of micro-, meso-, and macro-level socio-economic conditions that act as either enablers of or barriers to responsible environmental behaviours, depending on the circumstances. The overall findings show that SMEs address the relevant environmental issues in a complex fashion, and may provide policymakers with support in the design of environmental policies tailored to the practical needs of small-scale polluting firms.

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Communities as informal regulators: new arrangements in industrial pollution control in Viet Nam

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Environmental Governance in the Information Age: The Emergence of Informational Governance

Environmental Governance in the Information Age: The Emergence of Informational Governance

Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl: a case study of China’s good food movement

Polluting SMEs and the construction of their environmental behaviours: Evidence from Bangladesh

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