Researching Governance for Sustainable Development: Some Conceptual Clarifications

Frödin, Olle

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“…When these two epistemologies confront one another, their differences spark tensions. These tensions are palpable in regulatory bureaucracies, where technical claims and political exigencies and prerogatives have to be factored in in any decision (Frodin, 2015). Same is the case with the design of the regulatory regime for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in India and some of the most significant challenges to it.…”

Section: Legal-administrative Versus Scientific Epistemologiesmentioning

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Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India

Aga

2021

Journal of Developing Societies

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A fierce controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops has been raging in India for over two decades. Analyzing India’s regulatory regime for GM crops, this article focuses on the modes through which state bureaucracies know the environment. It argues that two epistemologies - scientific and legal-administrative – underpin environment protection. By unraveling the course of regulatory disputes, I demonstrate that bureaucracies are not just hierarchically divided but are also segmented by horizontal, functional specializations. There is thus an inherent ambiguity lodged between environment as a technical discourse and as statecraft. This ambiguity both fosters and constrains democratic participation in policy decisions and can even partially disrupt power relations in unanticipated ways.

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Section: Legal-administrative Versus Scientific Epistemologiesmentioning

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Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India

Aga

2021

Journal of Developing Societies

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“…MEAs, so far, have not effectively enhanced the level of sustainability policy integration across the environmental, economic, and social pillars of sustainable development. The three policy domains remain marked by a wide range of issues, interests, and political actors that differ in their approaches, institutions, and policies for sustainability, based on different assumptions and conflicting notions (Ratner, 2004), all of which seem to still make it difficult to transform them into one single consistent policy program at the global level (Frödin, 2015).…”

Section: Sustainability Policy Integrationmentioning

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Change and Integration of International Environmental Institutions in Global Governance

Barirani¹

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International environmental institutions are key for addressing global environmental problems, such as overfishing, climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, as the overexploitation of natural resources as well as unsustainable practices of governance, settlement, and economic activities have been established over long periods of time, international environmental institutions are challenged to provide global environmental protection. These difficulties are amplified by the often-lacking cooperation and coordination of international environmental institutions in a fragmented global governance structure. Thus, integration is an indispensable part for achieving global environmental protection. Although both academics and practitioners are increasingly calling for more global environmental protection, there is no simple one-size-fits-all solution available that could ensure such an endeavor. What is needed is a thorough understanding of individual institutional specifications, interactions and interconnections and even systemic dynamics that emerge from institutional linkages over time. Institutional change analysis allows to study these aspects in a comprehensive way and to examine integration efforts of international environmental institutions over time. Rather than taking snapshots of international environmental institutions, this dissertation looks at longitudinal developments towards global environmental protection. Therefore, to discern high expectations and policy objectives from what is really happening, this dissertation addresses the following research question: How do international environmental institutions change and integrate in global governance? This dissertation draws a distinction between how international environmental institutions drive a process of integration in a larger institutional context which is external to them and how they integrate rules which are internal to them. The answer to the question emerged from four studies. Study 1 synoptically reviewed institutional change and integration in the global food governance system. It showed that actors are important for altering global governance processes. Especially, the role of private actors and governments needs to be taken into consideration for understanding the rules of the game. Study 2 provided findings that policy integration is a key institutional change process for global governance. Yet, most international environmental institutions do not integrate their institutional activities but remain in silos, which is a barrier to the achievement of global environmental protection. Study 3 shows in detail that an international environmental institution has the potential to be a driver of global environmental protection through policy integration while being challenged by multiple barriers at the same time. Thus, for international environmental institutions to alter global governance processes, they must actively take efforts in enabling and fostering policy integration as well as international cooperation and collaboration. Study 4 provided support for the idea that institutional change is a gradual transformational process in which there can be multiple variations of rule dynamics over time. Study 4 showed that bridging historical institutionalism and organizational science can bring new insights into institutional change at the sub-institutional level, i.e., internal developments of an organization. This dissertation postulates that international environmental institutions are central for altering global governance processes. Yet, the studies have shown that international environmental institutions are struggling at various fronts when it comes to a successful integration of policies, but also cooperation and coordination efforts.

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Hamman

2023

Handbook of the Anthropocene

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Researching Governance for Sustainable Development: Some Conceptual Clarifications

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Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India

Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India

Change and Integration of International Environmental Institutions in Global Governance

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