Environmental Governance
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This document summarizes different visions of environmental governance: - The Market Liberal Vision embraces globalization and believes economic prosperity and a well-functioning market can improve the environment. - The Institutionalist Vision also supports globalization but emphasizes strengthening the global environmental regime with international agreements, organizations, and enforcement. - The Bio-Environmental Vision predicts future environmental doom due to human overpopulation and overconsumption, calling for population control and reduced resource use. - The Social Green Vision proposes a steady-state economy and measures like localizing trade, empowering communities, and import substitution to increase sustainability and equality.
![Tragedy Of The Commons
The tragedy of the commons is an economic problem in which every individual tries to reap
the greatest benefit from a given resource. As the demand for the resource overwhelms
the supply, every individual who consumes an additional unit directly harms others who can
no longer enjoy the benefits. Generally, the resource of interest is easily available to all
individuals; the tragedy of the commons occurs when individuals neglect the well-being of
society in the pursuit of personal gain.
The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a
shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their
own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling
that resource through their collective action. The concept and phrase originated in an
essay written in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical
example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (also known as a
"common") in Great Britain and Ireland.[1] The concept became widely known over a
century later due to an article written by the American ecologist and philosopher Garrett
Hardin in 1968.[2] In this modern economic context, commons is taken to mean any shared
and unregulated resource such as atmosphere, oceans, rivers, fish stocks, or even an office
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Environmental Governance
- 2. Ecology Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other with their physical environment. Earth is shaped by both Biotic – living organism related and abiotic non living or physical factors. It is also called bioecology, environmental ecology or bionomics. Expanding of population, global warming, extinction of plant and animal species are ecological.
- 3. Tragedy Of The Commons The tragedy of the commons is an economic problem in which every individual tries to reap the greatest benefit from a given resource. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, every individual who consumes an additional unit directly harms others who can no longer enjoy the benefits. Generally, the resource of interest is easily available to all individuals; the tragedy of the commons occurs when individuals neglect the well-being of society in the pursuit of personal gain. The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action. The concept and phrase originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (also known as a "common") in Great Britain and Ireland.[1] The concept became widely known over a century later due to an article written by the American ecologist and philosopher Garrett Hardin in 1968.[2] In this modern economic context, commons is taken to mean any shared and unregulated resource such as atmosphere, oceans, rivers, fish stocks, or even an office refrigerator.
- 4. Biodiversity Biodiversity, also called biological diversity, the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of life on Earth.
- 5. Environmental Citizenship Environmental Citizenship is an idea that each of us is an integral part of a larger ecosystem and that our future depends on each one of us embracing the challenge and acting responsibly and positively toward our environment. It's about making changes in our daily lives to be environmental citizens all day, every day. The idea of environmental citizenship was first developed by Environment Canada. It is now spreading around the world. It is an idea similar to and compatible with environmental stewardship in the Christian, Islam, and Judaic traditions, but is not committed to or associated with any particular religious or cultural tradition.
- 6. Four Visions of Environmental Governance These visions explains environmental pollution by population growth, consumption of natural resources and international political economic activities. Evaluate the problems, solutions and reforms with the change of environment. Invention of steam engine, rapid industrialisation, globalization, multinational companies, development and vast economic activities are the main cause of environmental pollution, natural destruction, climate change and global warming. All visions agreed that environment and natural resources are destroyed by human being. Social scientist, environmentalist and economist tried to protect environment.
- 7. Market Liberal Vision Suggest to embrace globalization Sustainable development and dependant on economic development. Prosperity and better environment go hand in hand. There is relationship between prosperity and environment. Example: WB and IMF. Smooth functioning of market, Eco efficiency and economy, Corporate Social Responsibility, More technical cooperation, economic prosperity with good economic growth of GDP and GNI, promoting open market economy and no tariff barrier, expedite free market economy, raise global and national per capita income, standard of living and choice, ensure employment of mass people, enhance skills and expertize, increase wages, volume of trade, and commerce, ensure food security and reduce poverty, MNCs environmental pollution and CSR.
- 8. Institutionalist Vision Agree with market liberals about embracing globalization. Strongly suggest global environmental regime. Regime includes policy, rules, regulations, provisions. Earth summit – more than 400 treatise of environmental issues. Call for global financial environment. Question the effectiveness of global regime and suggest broad framework for enforcement of rules and regulations. Suggest for reforming environmental organizations, policies nationally and globally. Stronger institution, changes to international organizations, effort to enhance state capacity to manage environmental changes, new and better environmental regime, exercise potential cooperation through
- 9. Bio-Environmental Vision They predict an environmental doom in future. Self interest and instincts of human is responsible for that doom. Suggest for controlling population bomb. Strongly suggest less consumption and production. Protect nature from humanity, protect global natural heritage like sundarban etc., happiness philosophy like Bhutan, agro based green economy, protect degradation of soil, water and air, increase productivity of food, protect river, canal and marine resource from industrial waste.
- 10. Social Green Vision They developed a new concept of steady state economy. It means. Number of human and amount of capital are constant. Index of sustainable economic welfare. Example – per capita income, economic growth, genuine progress indicator (GPI). Reduce inequality, ensure equality, reverse globalization, localize trade and production, empower local community through global political economy, respect rights of women, indigenous community and poor, encourage environmental justice and encourage local products over imported product, socialistic and protect from MNCs exploration, import substitution and export oriented economy, food and climate security, developed countries exploited developing countries by importing raw materials and exporting finished product.