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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2023-03-22
    Description: Water markets are increasingly proposed as a demand-management strategy to deal with water scarcity. Water trading arrangements, on their own, are not about setting bio-physical limits to water-use. Nevertheless, water trading that mitigates scarcity constraints can assist regulators of water resources to keep water-use within limits at the lowest possible cost, and may reduce the cost of restoring water system health. While theoretically attractive, many practitioners have, at best, only a limited understanding of the practical usefulness of markets and how they might be most appropriately deployed. Using lessons learned from jurisdictions around the world where water markets have been implemented, this study attempts to fill the existing water market development gap and provide an initial framework (the water market readiness assessment (WMRA)) to describe the policy and administrative conditions/reforms necessary to enable governments/jurisdictions to develop water trading arrangements that are efficient, equitable and within sustainable limits. Our proposed framework consists of three key steps: 1) an assessment of hydrological and institutional needs; 2) a market evaluation, including assessment of development and implementation issues; and 3) the monitoring, continuous/review and assessment of future needs; with a variety of questions needing assessment at each stage. We apply the framework to three examples: regions in Australia, the United States and Spain. These applications indicate that WMRA can provide key information for water planners to consider on the usefulness of water trading processes to better manage water scarcity; but further practical applications and tests of the framework are required to fully evaluate its effectiveness.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: Water markets ; water trade ; water scarcity ; demand-side management ; economic instruments ; water accounting ; RNFD ; RNU ; KCN ; RND
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-11
    Description: Although escalating planetary turbulence threatens to destabilize political and economic systems, it also has the potential to inspire new ways to halt destructive practices and more toward more sustainable and just ways of governing world politics. This chapter presents a thematic summary of possible pathways for such a transformation. It begins by briefly exploring barriers to effective governance through turbulence, such as the tendency for path dependency to keep ineffective institutions intact, before turning to consider ways to improve global governance during times of extreme turbulence. Effective governance, the chapter suggests, features decisionmakers who accept uncertainty, think holistically, and facilitate participatory policymaking; it further necessitates justice-oriented and flexible institutions enabling creative experimentation and minimizing unintended consequences. The chapter emphasizes, too, the value of reflexive practice to help reveal failures and uncover alternatives, as well as the importance of transnational civil society mobilization for facilitating a transition to effective governance and a broader systemic transformation of the world order.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: Climate crisis; Environmental governance; Global environmental politics; Sustainability; Turbulence; World politics ; RND
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-11
    Description: While turbulence is a longstanding feature of world politics, contemporary turbulence stemming from climate change and accompanying environmental catastrophes, and interacting with developments in other areas of international politics, has more dire planetary consequences than ever before. Yet, the subfield of global environmental politics has not systematically examined turbulence and its consequences. This chapter lays a beginning foundation for understanding turbulence and global environmental politics. It begins by defining turbulence, including by distinguishing it from crisis and identifying its key elements. Next, the chapter explores sources of turbulence, beginning with its roots in the political and economic world order, before reviewing more “downstream” sources of turbulence, such as actor behavior and the events, trends, and policies that an actor faces from its broader setting. The chapter concludes with a discussion of who experiences turbulence and how the negative consequences of turbulence disproportionately burden marginalized groups.
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    Keywords: Climate change; Crisis; Global environmental politics; Governance; Turbulence; World politics ; RND
    Language: English
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2023-02-07
    Description: Mitigating climate change will require large-scale changes to energy systems. Two examples are increased use of renewable energy resources and electrification of the transport sector. These changes increase demand for metals. This chapter looks into which metals are used in renewable energy technologies and why, how much is required to transition the global energy system and which countries hold these metal reserves. Reserves of many metals used in renewable energy technologies are more geographically concentrated than fossil fuels. The resource and export revenues from metals are, for most countries, not as high as current revenues for fossil fuel exporters when compared to the size of their respective economies. More research is required to assess the local impact from increased mining which could be substantial for local economies, societies and the environment.
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    Keywords: RND
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2023-03-22
    Description: As the world strives to discontinue the use of coal, Southeast Asia stands out as one of the regions where both mining and consumption of coal are expanding. This is driven by the growing demand for electricity in the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and is happening despite both international policy pressure to phase out coal from the global energy system and local resistance to coal mines and power plants. This chapter explores the connections and disconnections between the coal sector in the ASEAN countries and global climate policy. Faced with coal’s multifaceted threats to public health, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability, organised opposition to coal has been growing across Southeast Asia since 2010. Opposition is shaped by the availability of political space for activists to protest and constrained by geographical distance and legal restrictions. Resistance to coal in the ASEAN member states has focused mainly on local concerns, but there is a growing emphasis on climate change and sustainable resource management in regional environmental networks.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: sustainable management of natural resources ; economics of natural resources ; politics of natural resources ; energy transition and natural resources ; climate change ; sustainable development ; RND ; KCN ; RNF ; GBC
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-09
    Description: Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance. By questioning existing academic discourse and advocating collective solutions, up-and-coming and established scholars help readers to understand diverse governance processes through a wide variety of topics. These range from consumption impacts, the circular and sharing economy, sustainable business models, consumer behaviour and work time, to understanding the role of new actors such as prosumers and city governments. The research agenda supports transformative system changes to a more sustainable society. Policy makers at international, national and local levels will benefit from the practical advice offered and forward-thinking policy suggestions. It will also be a timely read for scholars of sustainability studies, sociology of consumption, political economy and political ecology, human geography, wellbeing, environment studies and human ecology looking to gain a more well-rounded understanding of the topic.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: Sustainable consumption ; governance ; strong sustainable consumption ; actors ; institutions ; research agenda ; RNC ; RNU ; KCN ; RND
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-04
    Description: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Promoting more responsible action in relation to business sustainability, this book addresses the increasing discomfort among faculty members and wider society as to how business schools prepare students for the future. Reflective and inspiring, it seeks to motivate the necessary action which may be a small but crucial catalysts to solving challenges posed by increasing globalisation, migration, economic development, changing demographics, and cultural exchange.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: Business Schools; Grand Societal Challenges; Responsibility; Sustainability; Institutionalising Responsibility; Practising Responsibility in Teaching and Research ; RND
    Language: English
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2023-07-11
    Description: The use of resources such as land, energy and water - and their relation to the climate - are linked. They are tied into supply chains that provide services such as food, drinking water, heating, information and communications technology and others. There are many links between these chains. The sets of links are often referred to as the nexus. Functional understanding of these links, and the resulting interdependencies, is limited. This limited understanding is a barrier to appropriate planning and policy design. This is because the 'sectoral division' within government often has blinkered vision or authority. It either does not 'see' these linkages or, if it does, its policy does not have authority over their management. This chapter explores the importance of disseminating knowledge of the nexus among key actors. These include policy, business and civil society, academic and vocational levels, and researchers. We present an initial set of knowledge dissemination activities. They demonstrate how various analytical and governance barriers can be overcome. We focus on the nexus of the Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems (CLEWs) and their subsequent supply chains. The nexus and CLEWs have become terms that describe a type of integrated analysis. They are sometimes referred to as 'frameworks'. We examine the initiative under the nexus and CLEWs banners and similar approaches. From this, we distil insights and recommendations.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: Capacity development, knowledge transfer, Nexus, learning, integrated resources assessments, CLEWs ; RND
    Language: English
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    Edward Elgar Publishing | Edward Elgar Publishing
    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Description: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This ground-breaking book explores ways to integrate environmental justice modules into courses across a wide variety of disciplines. Recommending accessible, flexible, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice in student learning and course design and presents a model for faculty development that can be communicated across disciplines.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: Teaching environmental justice; Teaching environmental politics; Inclusive teaching; Equity in teaching; Science of teaching and learning; Teaching climate change ; RND
    Language: English
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    Edward Elgar Publishing | Edward Elgar Publishing
    Publication Date: 2023-07-26
    Description: Through detailed and wide-ranging analysis, the Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics provides a critical assessment of current and emerging challenges facing the EU in committing to and delivering increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. Highlighting the importance of topics such as finance and investment, litigation, ‘hard to abate’ sectors and negative emissions, it offers an up-to-date exploration of the complexities of climate politics and policy making.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: European Union; climate and energy policy; policy instruments; leadership; European Green Deal; multi-level climate governance ; RND
    Language: English
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  • 11
    Publication Date: 2023-07-11
    Description: This chapter presents a structured approach to quantitative analysis of the water-energy-food resource nexus based on the multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM) accounting framework. Concerning a social-ecological system of interest, the presented approach focuses on addressing: (i) system size and state; (ii) the environmental pressures associated with a particular size and state; (iii) the level of system openness, referring primarily to the role of externalization in the stabilization of both state and pressure; and (iv) the ecological impacts resulting from a localized contextualization of environmental pressures. An integrated toolkit consisting of four criteria of performance, four data matrices and four scopes/lenses is presented. The presented toolkit is proposed to be used by sustainability analysts. In illustrating the value-added of the toolkit, practical considerations and empirical results concerning agriculture in Europe are presented.
    Description: Published
    Keywords: MuSIASEM, complex systems, relational analysis, scale, openness, nexus security ; RND
    Language: English
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