Grassroots Global Governance

Author : Craig M. Kauffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190625733

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Grassroots Global Governance by Craig M. Kauffman Pdf

When international agreements fail to solve global problems like climate change, transnational networks attempt to address them by implementing "global ideas" -- policies and best practices negotiated at the global level-locally around the world. Grassroots Global Governance not only explains why some efforts succeed and others fail, but also why the process of implementing global ideas locally causes these ideas to evolve. Drawing on nodal governance theory, the book shows how transnational actors' success in putting global ideas into practice depends on the framing and network capacity-building strategies they use to activate networks of grassroots actors influential in local social and policy arenas. Grassroots actors neither accept nor reject global ideas as presented by outsiders. Instead, they negotiate whether and how to adapt them to fit local conditions. This contestation produces experimentation, and results in unique institutional applications of global ideas infused with local norms and practices. Grassroots actors ultimately guide this process due to their unique ability to provide the pressure needed to push the process forward. Experiments that endure are perceived as "successful," empowering those actors involved to activate transnational networks to scale up and diffuse innovative local governance models globally. These models carry local norms and practices to the international level where they challenge existing global approaches and stimulate new global governance institutions. By guiding the way global ideas evolve through local experimentation, grassroots actors reshape international actors' thinking, discourse, organizing, and the strategies they pursue globally. This makes them grassroots global governors. To demonstrate this, the book compares transnational efforts to implement local Integrated Watershed Management programs across Ecuador and shows how local experiments altered the global debate regarding sustainable development and stimulated a new global movement dedicated to changing the way sustainable development is practiced. In doing so, the book reveals the grassroots level as not merely the object of global governance, but rather a terrain where global governance is constructed.

Author : Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317303060

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Grassroots Environmental Governance by Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts Pdf

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.

Author : Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317303077

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Grassroots Environmental Governance by Leah S. Horowitz,Michael J. Watts Pdf

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.

Author : Mary K. Meyer,Elisabeth Prügl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0847691616

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Gender Politics in Global Governance by Mary K. Meyer,Elisabeth Prügl Pdf

This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.

Author : Anders Uhlin,S. Kalm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137461315

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Civil Society and the Governance of Development by Anders Uhlin,S. Kalm Pdf

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

Author : Molly Ruhlman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317907015

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Who Participates in Global Governance? by Molly Ruhlman Pdf

Why are non-state actors sometimes granted participation rights in international organizations? This book argues that IOs, and the states that compose them, systematically pursue their interests when granting participation rights to NSAs. This book demonstrates that NSAs have long been participants in global governance institutions, and that states and bureaucracies have not always resisted their inclusion. At the same time, this study encourages skepticism of the assumption that increasing participation should be expected with the passage of time. The result is a study that challenges some commonly held assumptions about the interests of IOs and states, while providing an interesting comparison of secretariat and state interests with regard to one particular aspect of IO institutional rule and practice: the participation of non-state actors. Addressing the regular assumption that the power of states and the efficacy of multilateral governance have simply wilted in the heat of globalization while NSAs have flourished, this work features analysis of key institutions such as UNCEF, UNDP and the Environment Programme. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, the United Nations, and NGOs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780889367944

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Grassroots Indicators for Desertification by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Hewson,Timothy J. Sinclair,Timothy Sinclair
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791443078

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Approaches to Global Governance Theory by Martin Hewson,Timothy J. Sinclair,Timothy Sinclair Pdf

Showcases diverse theoretical approaches in the emerging area of global governance.

Author : Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
Publisher : International Development Research Centre Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019810618

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Community Power and Grassroots Democracy by Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso Pdf

The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.

Author : Byron Belitsos,Rosemarie Stallworth-Clark,Marty Risacher
Publisher : Celestia
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1579830315

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Social Sustainability by Byron Belitsos,Rosemarie Stallworth-Clark,Marty Risacher Pdf

Our global civilization is dangerously unstable, not only because of dire environmental threats and violent international conflicts, but because our social institutions are unsustainable at every scale--from family life to national politics to global governance. But a new mode of living is rising in the ashes of the old, one that regards the social aspect of sustainability as the crucial factor. This unique work introduces an unprecedented method for creating social sustainability, one that offers new hope for building a world that survives and thrives into the distant future. Social Sustainability is for far-seeing ordinary citizens who are ready to accept the thrilling challenge of designing functional institutions for this new era. It introduces novel techniques of building cocreative teams whose work can be validated cross-culturally. With this manual, you will learn how to assemble and organize a social sustainability design team, and then begin to use the three core values of social sustainability to reinvent new designs of any human institution of any size and type. Remarkably, those solutions that lead to our sustainable future will begin with each of us at the local level--that is, in every local community, anywhere in the world, that chooses to participate in the grand mission of building a socially sustainable world.

Author : Celeste Montoya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780199927197

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From Global to Grassroots by Celeste Montoya Pdf

This examination of the European Union and efforts to combat violence against women provides an empirical feminist analysis of the transnational strategies and processes that connect global and grassroots advocacy efforts. It looks beyond policy rhetoric to examine the extent to which this important human rights issue is being addressed.

Author : Rahman, Hakikur
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799878469

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Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management by Rahman, Hakikur Pdf

In recent decades, digital technologies have permeated daily routines, whether at school, at work, or during personal engagements. Stakeholders in education are promoting innovative pedagogical practices, the business sector is utilizing updated processes. Even the public is improving their lifestyles by utilizing innovative technology. In a knowledge construction setting, technology becomes a tool to assist the user to access information, communicate information, and collaborate with others towards human development and knowledge management. In this context, ubiquitous computing has emerged to support humans in their daily life activities in a personal, unattended, and remote manner. Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management serves as an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the widespread incorporation of technological innovations around the globe. It examines how the application of ubiquitous computing technologies affects various aspects of human lives, specifically in human development and knowledge management. The chapters demonstrate how these ubiquitous technologies, networks, and associated systems have proliferated and have woven themselves into the very framework of everyday life. It covers categorized investigations ranging from e-governance, knowledge management, ICTs, public services, innovation, and ethics. This book is essential for ICT specialists, technologists, teachers, instructional designers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest technologies and how they are impacting human development and knowledge management across different disciplines.

Author : Augusta Dwyer
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : 1552664066

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Broke But Unbroken by Augusta Dwyer Pdf

In "Broke but Unbroken," journalist Augusta Dwyer takes us on an inspiring journey through the slums and villages of Brazil, Indonesia, India and Argentina as she meets with organizers from some of the most successful grassroots social movements struggling against poverty. These organizers are not representatives from NGOs or aid organizations based in developed nations but the poor themselves people who know intimately the reality of struggling for land, food, housing and the right to control their own resources and means of production. It is these movements, built from the ground up by the very people affected by poverty, that have achieved the most successes in ameliorating the conditions of the poor and providing real solutions to global poverty.As we travel with Dwyer through rural and urban landscapes, too often devastated by the demands of development, we meet people who have risked their homes, families and even their lives to affect real change in the world. The stories they share so openly and warmly are not merely accounts of economic or political success but are stories of empowerment and hope that dramatically portray the potency of collective action.In the beautiful prose of an accomplished writer, this book introduces us to extraordinary grassroots movements and encourages us to learn the lessons they offer about successfully challenging power and changing the world.

Author : Chris Tollefson,Fred Gale,David Haley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774814381

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Setting the Standard by Chris Tollefson,Fred Gale,David Haley Pdf

Setting the Standard chronicles the emergence and implicationsof an ambitious experiment in civil-society-led global governance: theForest Stewardship Council. Drawing on a pioneering case study of thisnegotiation process, this book explores the challenges associated withimplementing the FSC's global vision on the ground. Indeed, theestablishment of an FSC standard for British Columbia was achieved onlyafter difficult and protracted negotiations at the regional, national,and global levels. This important work also undertakes a detailedcomparative analysis of FSC standards and standard-setting processeselsewhere and grapples with the broader implications for globalgovernance and regulatory theory.

Author : Jean-Frederic Morin,Amandine Orsini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136777042

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Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance by Jean-Frederic Morin,Amandine Orsini Pdf

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent environmental issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle. The book is comprised of 101 entries, each defining a central concept in global environmental governance, presenting its historical evolution, introducing related debates and including key bibliographical references and further reading. The entries combine analytical rigour with empirical description. The book: offers cutting edge analysis of the state of global environmental governance, raises an up-to-date debate on global governance for sustainable development, gives an in-depth exploration of current international architecture of global environmental governance, examines the interaction between environmental politics and other fields of governance such as trade, development and security, elaborates a critical review of the recent literature in global environmental governance. This unique work synthesizes writing from an internationally diverse range of well-known experts in the field of global environmental governance. Innovative thinking and high-profile expertise come together to create a volume that is accessible to students, scholars and practitioners alike.