Environmental governance of a Belt and Road project in Montenegro – National agency and external influences

Coenen, Johanna; Newig, Jens; Meyfroidt, Patrick

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106136

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“…The government's role in sustainable land management aims to protect agricultural land for food security and take sides with farming communities. An example is a case in Montenegro, how the state's political will and institutional capacity manage the lands (Coenen, Newig and Meyfroidt, 2022) so that no land conflicts exist due to investments such as in Ethiopia (Eneyew et al, 2022) or losses in Bulgaria due to land reform and structural changes in agriculture (Hanaček et al, 2021).…”

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Sustainable Agricultural Policy Strategies to Support the Existence of Subsistence Agriculture in Lingga Regency

Wijaya¹,

Amri²

2022

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The production of subsistence farmers dominates Lingga's agricultural commodities as an alternative food supply. However, this production helps meet food needs in Lingga Regency. Along with the development of regional development, to meet the needs and regional food security and guard against land conversion activities, it is necessary to protect agricultural land. This article aims to identify the implementation of the Sustainable Food Agricultural Land Protection Program in Lingga Regency, Riau Islands Province. This research is a qualitative study with a study approach that examines the government's efforts to overcome land conversion and support the productivity of subsistence farmers as alternative food suppliers by making policies to protect agricultural land for sustainable food. Research shows that to anticipate the occurrence of land conversion, the local government of Lingga Regency issued two regulations to ensure the protection of sustainable agricultural land and the determination of the area of rice fields. This study still has limitations, namely respondents for primary data sources, especially in farmer groups. As a result, additional research will be conducted to include subsistence farmers and monitor the policy progress of the sustainable Food and agriculture land conservation program in Lingga Regency.

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Sustainable Agricultural Policy Strategies to Support the Existence of Subsistence Agriculture in Lingga Regency

Wijaya¹,

Amri²

2022

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“…By 2021, China had signed 206 BRI partnership treaties with 140 nations and 32 international institutions [8]. The initiative promotes regional and transcontinental collaboration and accessibility through investment opportunities, trade, and infrastructure initiatives [9]. This initiative covers the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", in which several megaprojects like railways, airports, dams, roads, bridges, and pipelines across several continents are being developed.…”

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“…The diverse institutions, cultures, and social conditions among BRI countries (B1) BRI countries' diverse institutions, political contexts, cultures, and social conditions are considered a barrier to implementing social responsibility in belt and road projects [9,32]. Social responsibility governance in these projects might be a significant concern for BRIparticipating countries.…”

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“…China has been working to improve and expand the "green BRI" institutional framework, but a truly "green BRI" will involve strong environmental governance in BRI recipient countries [9,34]. A large part of the BRI's social responsibility hinges on the political will and institutional capacity of BRI host countries to establish and impose robust social and environmental rules, as many Chinese policies highly encourage Chinese enterprises to comply with partner countries' environmental and social regulatory requirements [34].…”

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Barriers to Social Responsibility Implementation in Belt and Road Mega Infrastructure Projects: A Hybrid Fuzzy DEMATEL-ISM-MICMAC Approach

Alqershy

Shi

2023

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Social responsibility strategies are indispensable for the sustainable development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Nonetheless, the application of social responsibility (SR) policies in such mega infrastructure projects remains a pressing concern since a number of barriers impede the effective integration of SR practices. Therefore, this paper seeks to identify these barriers and determine the interrelationships among them. A list of barriers was first identified from a literature review and expert consultation. Subsequently, a survey was designed to collect experts’ views on the interrelations among these barriers. The Fuzzy DEMATEL method was employed to analyze these barriers’ causal relationships and interdependencies. Subsequently, the ISM approach was used to develop a hierarchical structure and establish the driving and dependence relationships among them. The classification of barriers, based on driving power and dependence power, was accomplished using the MICMAC analysis. The results reveal that barriers such as “The diverse institutions, cultures, and social conditions among BRI countries”, “Lack of robust social responsibility laws and regulations in the host countries”, “Lack of stringent and legally binding BRI policies and guidelines governing social responsibility”, “The diverse environmental and social frameworks and standards among BRI countries”, “The diverse international, national, and private funds for BRI projects”, and “Lack of customer awareness and knowledge of CSR” are the most critical barriers and have the greatest influence on social responsibility implementation. Identifying these key barriers and their interrelationships will assist decision-makers, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in BRI mega infrastructure projects in minimizing or overcoming them, hence increasing the chances of successfully integrating social responsibility practices within these projects.

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“…These flows across distance allow people to derive benefits from ecosystems located far away from them, but can also trigger complex sustainability problems (e.g., Green et al, 2019;Pendrill et al, 2019;Steibl et al, 2021). In recent years, researchers have looked at the role of corporate strategies (e.g., Bager & Lambin, 2020;Leijten et al, 2022;Reis et al, 2020), public policies (e.g., Coenen et al, 2022;Qin et al, 2022) or non-governmental organization tenets (e.g., Busck-Lumholt et al, 2022;Mempel & Corbera, 2021) in shaping these long-distance connections and their sustainability outcomes. This thesis contributes to the literature on telecoupling drivers, exploring the role of individual preferences in determining the extent and geography of ecological impacts associated with consumption in a Western context.…”

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Impacts of Western lifestyles in a telecoupled world

Laroche¹

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Human use of natural resources is exceeding the planet's ecological ceilings. To reverse this trend, sustainable production and consumption was placed on the global governance agenda at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, a large number of empirical studies have been carried out to characterise the environmental impact of consumption. It has become clear that humanity's pressure on ecosystems is mainly related to the use of natural resources for food, shelter and mobility, and that the wealthiest people contribute disproportionately to the overall pressure because of the consumption culture associated with affluence. It has also been shown that most environmental impacts are not visible to final consumers because the goods and services they use are often produced miles away. This understanding has largely been supported by conceptual and methodological developments around the concepts of lifestyle, ecosystem services and telecoupling. However, these concepts have only been marginally combined so far, leaving open questions about the role of lifestyle in explaining the use of ecosystem services and ecological impacts. This dissertation brings together ideas and methods from research around these concepts to propose indicators and tools to characterise the role of lifestyle as a determinant of the extent and geography of ecosystem services demand and impacts. Different aspects of lifestyle - diet, holiday, mobility - are empirically addressed, with a focus on Western countries where living standards are relatively high and affluent consumption is the norm. Chapter 2 questions the potential ecological outcomes of a large-scale shift from the current standard diet in the United States of America (USA) to more plant-based alternatives. Chapter 3 examines tourist preferences for different holiday styles as a determinant of carbon emissions from leisure travel within the European Union (EU). Chapter 4 draws a quantitative link between current mobility patterns in the European Union and the expansion of rubber plantations in the tropics, which is leading to deforestation. In addition, Chapter 5 critically looks at the trade model used in chapters 2 and 4 to trace the origin of commodities available for use in the USA and the EU and proposes a way forward. Finally, Chapter 6 synthesises the methodological and empirical findings of Chapters 2 to 5 and operationalises these findings into recommendations for businesses and governments on how to support the transition to sustainable consumption in Western societies. Overall, this thesis shows that our understanding of lifestyle as a determinant of ecological impacts can be improved by reusing available large-scale survey results, contextualising individual agency and substantiating indicators of demand for ecosystem services with qualitative information. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate that prevailing preferences in Western societies explain the extent and spatial patterns of demand for ecosystem services and associated impacts. They also highlight the dependence of Western lifestyles on far-flung ecosystems and globalisation processes such as international trade and leisure travel. This body of research therefore re-emphasises the role of demand-side measures in reducing the overall impact of Western societies and the importance of addressing potential impacts beyond borders. Ultimately, this perspective on the role of lifestyle as a driver of sustainability issues in a telecoupled world argues for cooperation between different actors - individual consumers, businesses and governments - to carry out the transition to sustainable consumption patterns.

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Environmental governance of a Belt and Road project in Montenegro – National agency and external influences

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Sustainable Agricultural Policy Strategies to Support the Existence of Subsistence Agriculture in Lingga Regency

Sustainable Agricultural Policy Strategies to Support the Existence of Subsistence Agriculture in Lingga Regency

Barriers to Social Responsibility Implementation in Belt and Road Mega Infrastructure Projects: A Hybrid Fuzzy DEMATEL-ISM-MICMAC Approach

Impacts of Western lifestyles in a telecoupled world

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