Governance approaches that can be used to implement sustainability criteria
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Summary, in English
Implementation of sustainability criteria, both in legal frameworks and voluntary sustainability standards, is an urgent and important issue. In the article, three less state-centric governance approaches and their capacity to be used to implement sustainability criteria have been investigated. The chosen approaches are good governance, multi-level governance and selfgovernance. Their potential strengths and weaknesses have been pointed out. The research indicates that sustainability criteria can be implemented in different ways, which have the potential to highlight, strengthen or weaken different aspects of their function. The use of different governance approaches, or their combinations, can lead to different implementation results for the same sustainability criterion. The choice of an appropriate governance approach
depends on the circumstances in each case, on the purpose of using sustainability criteria and on
the results that are strived at. Possibilities to establish a profitable international regime with
homogeneous requirements and sustainability criteria for a certain production branch or a product
should be explored .The article suggests that the most promising solution is to combine the use of
legal regulations (juridical steering) with less hierarchical and less state-centric governance
approaches, involving the participation of different groups of interested actors. Elements of good
governance, multi-level governance and self-governance can be efficiently incorporated in legal
frameworks and voluntary sustainability standards with sustainability criteria .Further research
and case study analysis in this area are recommended.
depends on the circumstances in each case, on the purpose of using sustainability criteria and on
the results that are strived at. Possibilities to establish a profitable international regime with
homogeneous requirements and sustainability criteria for a certain production branch or a product
should be explored .The article suggests that the most promising solution is to combine the use of
legal regulations (juridical steering) with less hierarchical and less state-centric governance
approaches, involving the participation of different groups of interested actors. Elements of good
governance, multi-level governance and self-governance can be efficiently incorporated in legal
frameworks and voluntary sustainability standards with sustainability criteria .Further research
and case study analysis in this area are recommended.
Department/s
Publishing year
2014
Language
English
Pages
54-71
Publication/Series
Journal of applied science and research
Volume
2
Issue
2
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
USA CODEN: JASRHB
Topic
- Law
Keywords
- environmental law
- miljörätt
- good governance
- self-governance
- governance
- implementation of sustainability criteria
- multi-level governance
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2348-0416