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Improving Unsustainable Environmental Governance in South Africa: the Case for Holistic Governance [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2006
Environmental law in South Africa has developed in a rapid fashion since the inception of the new constitutional dispensation in 1994. This development is evident from, inter alia, the constitutionalisation of the environmental right in section 24 of the
LJ Kotze
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Visualizing changes to US federal environmental agency websites, 2016-2020.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Websites have become the primary means by which the US federal government communicates about its operations and presents information for public consumption.
Eric Nost, Gretchen Gehrke, Grace Poudrier, Aaron Lemelin, Marcy Beck, Sara Wylie, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative   +6 more
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Learning in Crisis: Training Students to Monitor and Address Irresponsible Knowledge Construction by US Federal Agencies under Trump

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2020
Immediately after President Trump’s inauguration, US federal science agencies began deleting information about climate change from their websites, triggering alarm among scientists, environmental activists, and journalists about the administration’s ...
Chris Tirrell, Laura Senier, Sara Ann Wylie, Cole Alder, Grace Poudrier, Jesse DiValli, Marcy Beck, Eric Nost, Rob Brackett, Gretchen Gehrke   +9 more
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Using participatory action research to operationalize critical systems thinking in social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society, 2020
We present a research approach that seeks to develop and strengthen participatory action research (PAR) when applied in social-ecological systems (SES) by combining it with critical systems thinking (CST).
Madelon Eelderink, Joost M. Vervoort, Frank van Laerhoven   +2 more
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Towards explanations for stability and change in modes of environmental governance: A systematic approach with illustrations from the Netherlands

Earth System Governance, 2020
Studies on stability and change in modes of environmental governance often remain implicit regarding the conceptualisation, nature and causes of stability and change. Moreover, they are selective in the addressed explanatory factors.
Dries L.T. Hegger, Hens A.C. Runhaar, Frank Van Laerhoven, Peter P.J. Driessen   +3 more
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Political ecology explanations for ineffective environmental governance for sustainability in the Amazon: A comparative analysis of cases from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru

Journal of Political Ecology, 2023
There is an extensive literature on environmental governance, which refers to multi-stakeholder processes to arrive at collective decisions about how natural resources will be managed.
Andrea Baudoin Farah, Angélica García Villacorta, Marliz Arteaga, Martha Rosero Peña, Martina Laura Speranza, Pilar MOrales-Giner, Sinomar Ferreira da Fonseca Junior, Stephen G Perz   +7 more
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A Review of Regional Environmental Governance Research in the West and Its Enlightenment to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Redai dili, 2022
Since the 1990s, with the region becoming an important space for governance, people have become more and more aware of the importance and urgency of environmental coordination and promoting sustainable development on the regional scale.
Yang Jiangmin, Huang Gengzhi, Xue Desheng   +2 more
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Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers [PDF]

, 2019
One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is feeding the world's human population in a sustainable, nutritious, equitable and ethical way under a changing climate.
Environmental Governance, Environmental Governance, Fraser, E. D.G., Harris, D., Lyon, C., Pereira, L., Simelton, E., Stringer, L. C., Ward, C. F.M.   +8 more
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Voluntary Environmental Governance Arrangements [PDF]

, 2016
Voluntary environmental governance arrangements have focal attention in studies on environmental policy, regulation and governance. The four major debates in the contemporary literature on voluntary environmental governance arrangements are studied.
Van der Heijden, Jeroen
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The Collaborative Management of Sustained Unsustainability: On the Performance of Participatory Forms of Environmental Governance [PDF]

, 2019
n modern democratic consumer societies, decentralized, participative, and consensus-oriented forms of multi-stakeholder governance are supplementing, and often replacing, conventional forms of state-centered environmental government.
Blühdorn, Ingolfur, Deflorian, Michael
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