Non State Actors And Sustainable Development In Brazil

Author : Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000783834

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Non-State Actors and Sustainable Development in Brazil by Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse Pdf

This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil. The UN ranks Brazil as the most biodiverse country in the world, but the country’s environment has never been under greater threat, with the rise of multiple crises bringing mounting challenges to socioeconomic development and environmental protection. As state support has fallen away, non-state actors have actively engaged and eventually mobilized other social actors towards the promotion of the SDGs and the implementation of the UN agenda. This book asks why it is that non-state actors have dedicated so much time, effort and resources to promote a non-binding agenda that was ratified by and is mainly assigned to state actors. Looking at the roles of academia, civil society, and the private sector, the book explores the different ways in which these social actors make sense of and translate the 2030 Agenda into practice within their respective local contexts. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book sheds light on a series of challenges, opportunities and contradictions within the global agenda and its implementation. Assessing what the Brazil case can teach us about the diffusion of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs more broadly, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Sustainable Development, Latin America Studies and Environmental Politics as well as sustainable development researchers and policy makers.

Author : Leandra Fatorelli,Maria Fernanda Gebara,Peter May,Shaozeng Zhang,Monica Di Gregorio
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The REDD+ Governance Landscape and the Challenge of Coordination in Brazil by Leandra Fatorelli,Maria Fernanda Gebara,Peter May,Shaozeng Zhang,Monica Di Gregorio Pdf

Key points Despite significant efforts towards the coordination of governance related to REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), it remains a major challenge in Brazil. This challenge is pervasive whether between government levels (as evidenced in the differences in REDD+ perspectives and interests between federal and state governments), civil society or between government and the private sector.Despite their clear mandate to do so, state actors exchange only limited information on REDD+ policy with non-state actors.Domestic NGOs play an important mediating role in the limited REDD+ coordination that does take place.Private-sector actors, one of the main forces driving deforestation and forest degradation, are largely absent from the REDD+ policy domain, and the few who do participate are relatively isolated from other REDD+ policy actors.

Author : Thiago Gehre Galvao,Henrique Zeferino de Menezes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031592786

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The Quest for the Sustainable Development Goals by Thiago Gehre Galvao,Henrique Zeferino de Menezes Pdf

The book presents the experiences, complexities, and contradictions of the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil so far. Through chapters from a variety of stakeholdersincluding political and social actors that go far beyond the federal government, the book examines national, regional, and local aspects of development in Brazil. The book draws from scientific knowledgeand pratical experiences taking a critical look at what the SDGs mean in a Global South country and what the implications of this are for global development. The first section of the book addresses the critical political and institutional aspects related to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil, highlighting advances as well as pitfalls and setbacks. The chapters look at broad questions related to the role of civil society in defining political priorities and strategies to move forward with the SDGs in Brazil, as well as the dilemmas for incorporating the SDGs at the different levels of government and other Brazilian institutions. It critically addresses the political and institutional advances and barriers to the progress of the SDGs in Brazil, as well as political and social innovations that emanate from different sectors of Brazilian society. The second section directly addresses progress made toward the current SDGs in the context of the political, economic and social variables specific to Brazil. The chapters address critical shortcomings and demands for Brazilian society - the need for improvements in the education and employment policies to reduce poverty, the urgent need to increase gender equality and reduce violence, as well as the strengthening institutions and policies to mitigate climate change and protect the environment. The final section focuses on critically assessing the 2030 Agenda itself, drawing from a Global South IR perspective. The chapters here dialog with decolonial and post-developmentalist perspectives to highlight problems with the agenda and lift up sidelined priorities, presenting yet-unexamined policy solutions and innovations that are currently absent from the global institutional agenda. The Brazilian case is a perfect case to understand how underdevelopment and political instability constrain the paths to sustainable development, while accounting for social innovations, leveraging regional dynamics and utilizing social and cultural diversity can drive sustained progress.

Author : Ananya Mukherjee Reed,Darryl Reed,Peter Utting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136459351

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Business Regulation and Non-State Actors by Ananya Mukherjee Reed,Darryl Reed,Peter Utting Pdf

This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations that often characterize this field of inquiry. First, fragmentation: articles or books typically focus on one or a handful of cases. Second, the development dimension: what does such regulation imply for developing countries and subaltern groups in terms of well-being, empowerment and sustainability? This volume examines more than 20 initiatives or institutions associated with different regulatory and development approaches, including the business-friendly corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, ‘corporate accountability’ and ‘fair trade’ or social economy.

Author : Alan Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317047896

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Sustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation by Alan Terry Pdf

Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local implementation. Comparing the situation on the ground with formal national environmental action plans, the book compares progress, or the lack of progress, between different sectors, cultures, regions and resources throughout the developing world. It examines whether local knowledge and actions are undermining national aspirations or whether they are being ignored at the national level with detrimental consequences to sustainable development. The measurement of sustainable development, the role of formal and informal education in sustainable development and the significance of diverse voices in the practice of sustainable development are considered. The book draws lessons from those cases which appear to be experiencing positive moves towards sustainability and examines whether common frameworks exist which suggest that good practice may be transferable from one milieu to another.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Richard Higgott,Geoffrey Underhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134599318

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Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System by Andreas Bieler,Richard Higgott,Geoffrey Underhill Pdf

Traditionally in International Relations, power and authority were considered to rest with states. But recently, in the light of changes associated with globalisation, this has come under scrutiny both empirically and theoretically. This book analyses the continuing but changing role of states in the international arena, and their relationships with a wide range of non-state actors, which possess increasingly salient capabilities to structure global politics and economics.

Author : Oliver Stuenkel,Matthew M. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137491657

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Brazil on the Global Stage by Oliver Stuenkel,Matthew M. Taylor Pdf

In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led global liberal order. Indeed, Brazil demonstrates that middle powers, even those of a deeply democratic bent, may differ in their views of what democracy means on the global stage and how international relations should be conducted among sovereign nations. This volume explores Brazil's postures on specific aspects of foreign relations, including trade, foreign and environmental policy, humanitarian intervention, nuclear proliferation and South-South relations, among other topics. The authors argue from a variety of perspectives that, even as Brazil seeks greater integration and recognition, it also brings challenges to the status quo that are emblematic of the tensions accompanying the rise to prominence of a number of middle powers in an increasingly multipolar world system.

Author : Miguel R. Peña,C. T. Dhanya,Richard J. Dawson,Ashvani Gosain,Zulkifli Yusop
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832535257

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Water security and sustainable development in an uncertain world by Miguel R. Peña,C. T. Dhanya,Richard J. Dawson,Ashvani Gosain,Zulkifli Yusop Pdf

Author : Marzia Scopelliti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000387124

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Non-Governmental Actors in International Climate Change Law by Marzia Scopelliti Pdf

Focusing on how to improve the participation of non-governmental actors in the making of international climate change laws, this book is a conversation on the relevance of a human rights-based approach to international climate change law-making. The book considers a possible reform of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change institutional arrangement, inspired by the practice and model of participation of Arctic Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Council. Different non-State entities play a fundamental role in the development and enforcement of the climate change regime by enhancing the knowledge base of decision-making, keeping States in line with their commitments, and engaging in private initiatives aimed at mitigating the impacts of global warming. Albeit non-governmental and subnational actors increasingly work alongside States in the making of a climate change regime, the category of observers through which they participate in intergovernmental negotiations only gives them limited rights and their participation in international norm-making has at times been impaired. The relevance of a human rights-based approach consists in recognising the status of individuals and groups as rights-holders under human rights law, a paradigm that was first established by Arctic Indigenous Peoples when claiming their participatory rights in the Arctic Council, the main forum of governance of the Arctic region. This book argues that, in the absence of a globally binding treaty regulating procedural rights in intergovernmental negotiations, the emerging relationship between human rights and climate change could serve as a legal basis for the enhancement of non-governmental actors’ procedural rights, establishing the right to participation as a right in itself and which can benefit the governance of climate change. Due to the relevance of the addressed subject, the book is destined to a broad readership and will be of use to academic researchers, law practitioners, policy-makers and non-governmental organisations’ representatives.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Noé Aguilar-Rivera,Bruno Borsari,Paulo R. B. de Brito,Baltazar Andrade Guerra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1692 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031160172

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SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region by Walter Leal Filho,Noé Aguilar-Rivera,Bruno Borsari,Paulo R. B. de Brito,Baltazar Andrade Guerra Pdf

​This volume provides an overview of the ways sustainable development issues as a whole, and the SDGs in particular, are perceived and practiced in a variety of countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It also discusses the extent to which its many socio-economic problems hinder progresses towards the pursuit of a sustainable future, and documents successful experiences from across the region. This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring,Hans Günter Brauch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030623166

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Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene by Úrsula Oswald Spring,Hans Günter Brauch Pdf

In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping, peacebuilding and transitional justice; and IV) peace and education. Part I deals with peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, Gandhi’s non-violent policy and disobedient peace. Part II discusses urban climate change, climate rituals, conflicts in Kenya, the sexual abuse of girls, farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria, wartime sexual violence facing refugees, the traditional conflict and peacemakingprocess of Kurdish tribes, Hindustani family shame, and communication with Roma. Part III analyses norms of peacekeeping, violent non-state actors in Brazil, the art of peace in Mexico, grass-roots post-conflict peacebuilding in Sulawesi, hydrodiplomacyin the Indus River Basin, the Rohingya refugee crisis, and transitional justice. Part IV assesses SDGs and peace in India, peace education in Nepal, and infrastructure-based development and peace in West Papua. • Peer-reviewed texts prepared for the 27th Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 2018 in Ahmedabad in India.• Contributions from two pioneers of global peace research:a foreword by Johan Galtung from Norway and a preface by Betty Reardon from the United States.• Innovative case studies by peace researchers on decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development in the Anthropocene, the new epoch of earth and human history.• New theoretical perspectives by senior and junior scholars from Europe and Latin America on peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, and Gandhi’s non-violence policy.• Case studies on climate change, SDGs and peace in India; conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico; Roma in Hungary;the refugee crisis in Bangladesh; peace action in Indonesia and India/Pakistan; and peace education in Nepal.

Author : Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Patricia Daley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317229148

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Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Patricia Daley Pdf

South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ in funding and undertaking development, assistance and protection activities, often in response to increased political and financial pressures on their own aid budgets. However, the mainstreaming of Southern-led initiatives by UN agencies and Northern states is paradoxical in many ways, especially because the development of a South-South cooperation paradigm was originally conceptualised as a necessary way to overcome the exploitative nature of North-South relations in the era of decolonisation. This handbook critically explores diverse ways of defining ‘the South’ and of conceptualising and engaging with ‘South-South relations.’ Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past, present and future opportunities and challenges of South-South cooperation, and lays out research agendas for the next 5-10 years. The book covers key models of cooperation (including internationalism, Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism), diverse modes of South-South connection, exchange and support (including South-South aid, transnational activism, and migration), and responses to displacement, violence and conflict (including Southern-led humanitarianism, peace-building and conflict resolution). In so doing, the handbook reflects on decolonial, postcolonial and anticolonial theories and methodologies, exploring urgent questions regarding the nature and implications of conducting research in and about the global South, and of applying a ‘Southern lens’ to a wide range of encounters, processes and dynamics across the global South and global North alike. This handbook will be of great interest to scholars and post-graduate students in anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, development studies, history, geography, international relations, politics, postcolonial studies and sociology.

Author : Cecilia M. Bailliet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : International law
ISBN : 1139551027

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Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes by Cecilia M. Bailliet Pdf

This volume of essays examines challenges presented by non-state actors, quasi-legal norms, and gaps within normative and institutional frameworks.

Author : Anne Peters,Lucy Koechlin,Till Förster,Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139481816

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Non-State Actors as Standard Setters by Anne Peters,Lucy Koechlin,Till Förster,Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel Pdf

This analysis of 'globalised' standard-setting processes draws together insights from law, political sciences, sociology and social anthropology to assess the authority and accountability of non-state actors and the legitimacy and effectiveness of the processes. The essays offer new understandings of current governance problems, including environmental and financial standards, rules for military contractors and complex public-private partnerships, such as those intended to protect critical information infrastructure. The contributions also evaluate multi-stakeholder initiatives (such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative), and discuss the constitution of public norms in stateless areas. A synopsis of the latest results of the World Governance Indicator, arguably one of the most important surveys in the area today, is included.

Author : Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197530238

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Bringing Global Governance Home by Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom Pdf

"This work identifies and explains significant variation in the extent and forms of NGO engagement with global governance institutions and how effective NGOs are in bringing the norms and policy recommendations from the global level to domestic arenas. We combine insights from international relations with the lens of comparative politics to understand NGO participation and mediation. We argue that "going global" in whatever form creates some common challenges for NGOs. If they go global to expand their influence - whether through funding, information, or stricter standards - they become caught between two institutional frameworks and sets of norms. There are challenges inherent to that multi-level activism regardless of the particular form of participation. At the same time, the specific nature of the challenges faced by NGOs depends on domestic political arrangements"--