Evaluating normative capacity through Arctic environmental governance

Building institutional capacity for environmental governance through social entrepreneurship: lessons from Canadian biosphere reserves

Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

Environmental Governance

■ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of the most pressing environmental problems, conventional debates focused on pure modes of gov...

Assessing Risk Through Environmental, Social and Governance Exposures

Science and government. Governance and environmental change in the Arctic Ocean.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 324 17 APRIL 2009 303 COVER Multiphoton laser scanning images showing cortical (top) and medullary (bottom) portions of a mouse inguinal lymph node. Green spheres represent dendritic cell precursors 5 hours after transfer from bone marrow; B cell follicles are shown in blue; blood vessels and T cells are in red. During development, these precursors migrate through...

International governance of the arctic marine environment

The Arctic is a region in the northernmost hemisphere of the Earth. It is known for its extreme environmental conditions, in particular its cold temperatures, high winds, snow, and ice. Yet, life in this polar region is plentiful and includes both terrestrial and marine organisms. The Arctic Ocean provides for a unique, cold-temperatureadapted ecosystem containing plankton, marine mammals, and ...