Democracy And Governance For Resourcing The Commons

Author : Janet McIntyre-Mills,Norma R. A. Romm,Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030048914

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Democracy and Governance for Resourcing the Commons by Janet McIntyre-Mills,Norma R. A. Romm,Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes Pdf

This book promotes the well-being of the commons through representation and accountability through monitoring from below in order to operationalize engagement. This book views the commons as a legal concept, a transformative governance concept, and a basis for systemic ethics. The chapters focus on practical responses to address complex problems that comprise many interrelated variables and are perceived differently by stakeholders with different values and life experiences. By considering these different stakeholders, the goal is to highlight ways to regenerate and invigorate employment opportunities. The book identifies pathways towards ethical vocational education to enable lifelong engagement by active citizens which requires action learning to address areas of perceived policy concern. Throughout the chapters in this book, the authors discuss transformative research and its implications on stakeholders. They focus on re-presentation and its implications for thinking and practice. One author makes the case for fostering non anthropocentric approaches to ethical development. In addition, the chapters cover case studies including governance challenges associated with water management using a mixed method approach and also production of mushrooms in collaboration with coffee growers in Jakarta. The book focuses on ways to de-colonialise knowledge formation in public policy and makes the case for an alternative approach to governance and democracy that takes into account a range of local people’s perspectives.

Author : Samuel Cogolati,Jan Wouters
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788118514

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The Commons and a New Global Governance by Samuel Cogolati,Jan Wouters Pdf

Given the new-found importance of the commons in current political discourse, it has become increasingly necessary to explore the democratic, institutional, and legal implications of the commons for global governance today. This book analyses and explores the ground-breaking model of the commons and its relation to these debates.

Author : Masaru Takeshita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Commons
ISBN : 9280871927

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Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance by Masaru Takeshita Pdf

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107569782

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Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Pdf

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Author : Janet McIntyre-Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781489974662

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Transformation from Wall Street to Wellbeing by Janet McIntyre-Mills Pdf

Transformation from Wall Street to Well-being: Joining up the dots through Participatory democracy and governance to mitigate the causes and adapt to the effects of climate change addresses accountable leadership, supports collective interests, ethical governance and fairness to future generations in order to develop systemic approaches relevant to these issues. The humanistic focus, whilst central, addresses how we see ourselves in relation to the environment. It explores cultural perspectives in developed and developing parts of the world where people have a closer connection with the natural environment in comparison to those who live in cities. Furthermore the book discusses participatory action research to prefigure a means to hold the market to ensure that the use of resources that are necessary for the common good are accessible and equitable. The essential systemic aim this book offers is to balance human needs with nature. The research summarizes the discourses and the adaptive praxis in order to develop a bridge between cosmopolitan ethics and cosmopolitan governance. It does this in the interest of supporting and using cultural designs for living that support quality of life and spans five core domains as explained by the author. Overall, this monograph helps evaluates the extent to which the introduced approaches enable the community to consider their perceived assets and risks and the implications of their consumption choices.

Author : Takeshi Murota,Ken Takeshita
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Commons
ISBN : UIUC:30112110650105

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Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance by Takeshi Murota,Ken Takeshita Pdf

The rising tide of globalization poses a direct threat to the viability of small communities worldwide. Such communities, however, are our greatest hope for sustainable environmental governance, as they possess unparalleled ability to directly manage common-pool resources. Providing a much needed antidote in this age of globalization, this volume advances the idea of collaborative governance as an integration of open and closed commons. Taking into consideration the dimension of conflict resolution, it studies examples of governance structures in various countries around the world to develop a new type of democracy towards multilevel environmental governance that involves the public, private, and commons spheres. With contributions from researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, this volume demonstrates through institutional and empirical analyses the essential role of local commons in providing an axis of resistance to increasing environmental devastation and social inequality towards creating a sustainable future for local communities as well as society at large.

Author : Eric Brousseau,Tom Dedeurwaerdere,Pierre-André Jouvet,Marc Willinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191630170

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Global Environmental Commons by Eric Brousseau,Tom Dedeurwaerdere,Pierre-André Jouvet,Marc Willinger Pdf

Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization. Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s, many political initiatives have been taken, numerous governance experiments have been conducted, and a large multi-disciplinary field of research has opened up. This interdisciplinary book takes stock of the knowledge that has accumulated to date, and addresses new challenges in the provision of environmental goods. It focuses on three essential dimensions with respect to governance. First, it addresses the issue of designing governance solutions through analyzing systems of rules, and levels of organization, in the governance and management of environmental issues. Second, it draws renewed attention to the negotiation processes among stakeholders playing a crucial role in reaching agreements over issues and solutions, and in choosing and implementing particular policy instruments. Finally, it shows that compliance depends on a combination of formal rules, enforced by recognized authorities, and informal obligations, such as social and individual norms. The evolution of the research frontiers on environmental governance shows that more legitimate and informed processes of collective decision, and more subtle and effective ways of managing compliance, can contribute to more effective policy. However, this book also illustrates that more democratic and effective governance should rely on more direct and pluralistic forms of involvement of citizens and stakeholders in the collective decision making processes

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521405998

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Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Pdf

Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions.

Author : Lukas Peter
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839454244

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Democracy, Markets and the Commons by Lukas Peter Pdf

How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on and going beyond the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, he develops an ecological understanding of the commons and human freedom, more generally, thereby reinterpreting classical thinkers such as John Locke and John Rawls. Importantly, he does not suggest an end to property, states or markets, but rather a radical democratization thereof, ultimately providing a real alternative for the 21st century.

Author : Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels,Jon D. Daehnke
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813070360

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Heritage and Democracy by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels,Jon D. Daehnke Pdf

Examining cultural heritage within the context of democracy Cultural heritage is a powerful tool in society, capable of producing both social harms as well as social goods and benefits, which can be distributed unevenly via political channels. Reaching across disciplines and national boundaries, this volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, including participatory, deliberative, and direct democratic practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and cultural heritage shape, impact, and depend upon one another. The rising crisis of democracy across the globe brings these dynamics into sharp relief. The unfinished and fragile nature of democratic politics shines a spotlight on both its shortcomings and its aspirational potential. This is a paradox that heritage practitioners and stakeholders navigate daily, serving as both critics and collaborators of democracy. At the same time that heritage practice embraces participatory approaches, it must also address the challenge of reconciling multiple, often unequal, and frequently incompatible claims for control over heritage. Grappling with democracy’s crises also increasingly means recognizing the power of heritage to reinforce or undermine democracy. These essays ask: What are the democratic motives of heritage practice? Why do democracies need heritage? How do the social and cultural referents of heritage infuse democratic practices? Emphasizing the interplay of heritage and democracy in practices and institutions across scales of governance, Heritage and Democracy pinpoints a dynamic that has not been widely examined. Contributors: Stacey L. Camp | Jon D. Daehnke | Kasey Diserens Morgan | Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann | Dorothy Ann Engmann | Bobbie Foster Bhusari | Peter G. Gould | Erin A. Hogg | Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels | Magda E. Mankel | Chelsea H. Meloche | George P. Nicholas | Ellen J. Platts | Jasmine Reid | Paul A. Shackel | John R. Welch A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel

Author : Tobias Haller,Thomas Breu,Tine De Moor,Christian Rohr,Heinzpeter Znoj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351050968

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The Commons in a Glocal World by Tobias Haller,Thomas Breu,Tine De Moor,Christian Rohr,Heinzpeter Znoj Pdf

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption and societal reproduction. This volume bridges the two, addressing how global players affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global- local (glocal) world. Authors from a range of academic disciplines present research findings on recent developments on the commons, including: historical insights; new innovations for participatory institutions building in Europe or several types of commons grabbing, especially in Africa related to European investments; and restrictions on the management of commons at the international level. European case studies are included, providing interesting examples of local participation in commons resource management, while simultaneously showing Europe as a centre for globalized capitalism and its norms and values, affecting the rest of the world, particularly developing countries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including natural resource management, environmental governance, political geography and environmental history.

Author : Dana D. Nelson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823268405

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Commons Democracy by Dana D. Nelson Pdf

Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy—a representative republican government—Commons Democracy examines the power of the democratic spirit, the ideals and practices of everyday people in the early nation. As Dana D. Nelson reveals in this illuminating work, the sensibility of participatory democratic activity fueled the involvement of ordinary folk in resistance, revolution, state constitution-making, and early national civic dissent. The rich variety of commoning customs and practices in the late colonies offered non-elite actors a tangible and durable relationship to democratic power, one significantly different from the representative democracy that would be institutionalized by the Framers in 1787. This democracy understood political power and liberties as communal, not individual. Ordinary folk practiced a democracy that was robustly participatory and insistently local. To help tell this story, Nelson turns to early American authors—Hugh Henry Brackenridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Caroline Kirkland—who were engaged with conflicts that emerged from competing ideals of democracy in the early republic, such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the Anti-Rent War as well as the enclosure of the legal commons, anxieties about popular suffrage, and practices of frontier equalitarianism. While Commons Democracy is about the capture of “democracy” for the official purposes of state consolidation and expansion, it is also a story about the ongoing (if occluded) vitality of commons democracy, of its power as part of our shared democratic history and its usefulness in the contemporary toolkit of citizenship.

Author : Klaus Bosselmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783477821

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Earth Governance by Klaus Bosselmann Pdf

The predicament of uncontrolled growth in a finite world puts the global commons Ð such as oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere Ð at risk. So far, states have not found the means to protect what, essentially, is outside their jurisdiction. However, the ju

Author : Hans Peter Hansen,Birger Steen Nielsen,Nadarajah Sriskandarajah,Ewa Gunnarsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317299554

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Commons, Sustainability, Democratization by Hans Peter Hansen,Birger Steen Nielsen,Nadarajah Sriskandarajah,Ewa Gunnarsson Pdf

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend the present dichotomy between these two dimensions.

Author : Jean-Louis Laville,Dennis R. Young,Philippe Eynaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317747130

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Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise by Jean-Louis Laville,Dennis R. Young,Philippe Eynaud Pdf

If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the prominence of the third sector, the emergence of social enterprises and other solidarity hybrid forms. The concept of civil society organisations (CSOs) spans this diversity and addresses this new complexity. The first part of the book highlights the organizational dimensions of CSOs and analyses the growing role of management models and their limits. Too often, the study of CSO governance has been centered on the role of the board and has not sufficiently taken into account the different types of accountability environments. Thus, the conversation about CSO governance rises to the level of networks rather than simple organizations per se, and the role of these networks in setting the agenda in a democratic society. In this perspective, the second part emphasizes the institutional dimensions of CSO governance by opening new avenues on democracy. First, the work of Ostrom about governing the commons provides us new insights to think community self-governance. Second, the work of Habermas and Fraser opens the question of deliberative governance and the role of public sphere to enlarge our vision of CSO governance. Third, the concepts of substantive rationality and economy proposed respectively by Ramos and Polanyi reframe the context in which the question can be addressed. Lastly, this book argues for a stronger intercultural approach useful for the renewal of paradigms in CSOs research. This book has for objective to present a unique collective work in bringing together 33 authors coming from 11 countries to share perpectives on civil society governance and will be of interest to an international audience of researchers and policy-makers.