Environmental Justice and Ecosystem Co-governance
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2021) | Viewed by 14284
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resilience justice; adaptive law; adaptive planning; adaptive governance; environmental justice; inclusive and participatory co-governance; urban and rural marginalized communities; land use planning and law; environmental law and policy; water law and policy; ecosystem governance
Interests: Urban health; public policy; environmental governance; institutional arrangements around water, food, and land systems; sustainable urbanism in both Global North and South countries; social network analysis; urban planning; adaptive governance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fairness—and sustainability—of environmental policies and practices depends on who benefits from, provides/maintains services from, and controls ecosystems, such as waters and watersheds, forests, soils, grasslands, wetlands, floodplains, oceans, climates, and urban ecosystems. Increasingly, the theory and practice of both environmental justice and ecosystem governance call for the transformation of paternalistic or merely participatory governance systems into inclusive systems of co-governance as well as the critique of existing co-governance systems in practice. Inclusive co-governance systems involve all people, groups, and entities who are affected by a set of policy decisions in the design and operation of the governance system by which those policy decisions are made, thus going well beyond mere public or stakeholder participation. Multi-stakeholder collaboration for ecosystem governance can be an example but only to the extent that it meaningfully includes and empowers all relevant marginalized and oppressed groups and communities and not just powerful firms and interest groups. Deeply embedded structural inequalities and the complexities of interrelationships among ecological systems, social systems, and governance institutions make the design and implementation of just and sustainable co-governance systems especially challenging. This Special Issue seeks both conceptual and empirical scholarship that illuminates the features of environmentally just and inclusive systems for the governance of ecosystems and the services that they provide to communities and society.
Prof. Dr. Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold
Dr. Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental justice
- ecosystems
- co-governance
- inclusion
- participation
- equity
- ecosystem services
- governance
