Trust, Cooperation, and Implementation of Sustainability Programs: The Case of Local Agenda 21

Owen, Ann L.; Videras, Julio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.976074

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“…and mentioned in her work. Her intuition is included in the analysis of Grafton and Knowles (2004) and supported by the empirical evidence of Owen and Videras (2008). In a cross-sectional examination of 66 countries, the latter find that trust is positively correlated with the amount of local Agenda 21 programmes implemented in a given place.…”

Section: Linking Trust and Greenhouse Gas Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…If benefits from being green exceed the cost differential, the total payoff (i.e. Her intuition is included in the analysis of Grafton and Knowles (2004) and supported by the empirical evidence of Owen and Videras (2008). Empirical evidence from a choice experiment supports this formalization: testing the willingness-to-pay of Swedish students to withdraw emissions allowances from the European carbon trading market, Lindman et al (2013) show that the expected participation rates at the population level have a positive effect on students' voluntary participation in the carbon market.…”

Section: Linking Trust and Greenhouse Gas Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Trust

2013

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ResumLes normes socials han estat incloses en la teoria de l'acció col·lectiva per a superar les dificultats per explicar perquè la gestió del béns comuns podria ser més efectiva quan s'autoregula per les mateixes comunitats. El paper rellevant de la confiança en els altres s'ha identificat en diversos contextos d'acció social a nivell local, però només recentment s'ha considerat la idea que també podria ser rellevant en el cas de béns comuns de caire global, seguint l'evidència bàsicament descriptiva recollida per Elinor Ostrom. Però fins ara no hi havia proves quantitatives disponibles d'aquesta idea. Utilitzant un conjunt de dades de 29 països europeus durant el període 1990-2007, donem evidència empírica a favor del paper del nivell de confiança en els altres en el context dels béns públics globals. Concloem que el nivell de confiança en els altres té un impacte reductor de les emissions de gasos d'efecte hivernacle; per exemple, l'extrapolació dels resultats implicaria una reducció d'emissions d'Espanya del 12,5% si el nivell mitjà de confiança en els altres dels espanyols fos tan elevat com els dels suecs. AbstractSocial norms have been included in the theory of collective action to overcome difficulties in explaining why commons may perform better when self-regulated. The role of trust has been identified in several contexts of local social dilemma, but only recently has been extended to global commons, based on large descriptive evidence collected by Elinor Ostrom. However, no quantitative evidence was available until now. Using a dataset of 29 European countries over the period 1990-2007, we provide empirical evidence in favor of the role of trust in global dilemma. We end up with a negative impact of trust on greenhouse gas emissions, whose extrapolation to Spain would imply a reduction in emissions of 12.5% if Spaniards would trust each other as Swedish people do.

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Section: Linking Trust and Greenhouse Gas Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Linking Trust and Greenhouse Gas Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Trust

2013

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“…The question was raised as to what could be considered to be credible evidence, reinforcing a need for a better understanding of respondents' perception of source credibility (e.g. Ostman and Parkes, 1987;McCallum et al, 1991;Owen and Virderas, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Unconventional Gas Development: Why a Regional Community Said No

Luke

Lloyd

Boyd

et al. 2014

Geographical Research

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Public concern resulting from unconventional coal seam gas (CSG) exploration and production has become a contentious planning issue in regional Australia, with public concern drawing attention to government planning obligations. To assist Lismore City Council (Northern New South Wales) in its deliberations on the topic, a referendum‐style poll on the issue of CSG industry development was held in conjunction with the local government elections of September 2012. The poll question, ‘Do you support CSG exploration and production in the Lismore City Council area?’, elicited a poll response rate of 97% of eligible voters, of which 87% voted ‘no’. This paper reports the results of an exit poll survey using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to frame motivations behind the poll result, and examines the role of the poll and exit poll survey in providing a process of deliberative democracy in the context of the CSG debate. Key details highlighted by the results were that non‐supporters of CSG exploration were primarily concerned about water quality, while supporters saw the primary benefit being regional employment. Emerging themes of this study are the need for more independent research on potential risks and benefits of CSG developments, increase in institutional transparency, and the development of renewable alternatives. The study concludes that the principles of deliberative democracy involved in the Lismore City Council poll and subsequent exit poll survey have provided an opportunity for a more open discussion and genuine discourse within the CSG debate.

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“…Agenda 21 is the main international reference for the implementation of sustainable development through the involvement of local groups of interest. There are several studies about implementing instruments available to local government to assess the strengths and weaknesses point and provide good practices [15][16][17][18][19]. The growing interest of both internal and external stakeholders in companies' activities has led many organizations to adopt EMS certification.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The network was governed by a non-hierarchical decision-making structure which deals with public interest issues [11] reducing the participation gap. Over the years, several studies have demonstrated how the ability to involve the different categories of local stakeholders is crucial to improve significantly the quality of regional environment [18]. In 2004 it a survey has been carried out which showed that in Italy the adoption of Local Agenda 21 had a considerable spread, targeting more than 800 Local Authorities.…”

Section: International Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders

Merli¹,

D’Amico

Preziosi³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 3rd World Sustainability Forum

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Abstract:The last revision of the EMAS Regulation encouraged a cluster approach to increase the participation of the organizations and to involve local stakeholders in the sustainability process. Our research activity, conducted by the Department of Business Studies of Roma Tre University and ISPRA (High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research), intends to partially fill the literature gap in the field by investigating the Italian cluster approach for EMAS, characterized by the creation of a cluster Managing Committee (MC) -which can receive an EMAS Cluster Certificate -in order to improve the implementation of the scheme. If in a first phase we investigated the effectiveness of MCs support given to registered EMAS organizations, the main objective of the second step has been to verify the impact of MCs actions on different stakeholders categories in 12 Italian clusters. We present the results of a survey conducted through the distribution of a specifically designed questionnaire on different categories of stakeholders in the considered clusters. The main two goals of the investigation are: to determine the impacts of MCs action in terms of environmental performance enhancements and network creations to improve the cluster competitiveness; to evaluate how the tools offered to cluster organizations have effectively contributed to a widespread knowledge of EMAS and environmental concerns.

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Trust, Cooperation, and Implementation of Sustainability Programs: The Case of Local Agenda 21

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Trust

Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Trust

Unconventional Gas Development: Why a Regional Community Said No

EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders

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