governance for sustainable development: as if it mattered? dr. ann dale, trudeau fellow canada...
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Governance for Sustainable Development: As if it Mattered?
Dr. Ann Dale, Trudeau FellowCanada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development
Royal Roads Universitywww.crcresearch.org
What is sustainable development?The human imperative of the 21st century
Sustainable DevelopmentA Process of Reconciliation
The social imperative to ensure the development of democratic systems of governance that can effectively propagate and sustain the values that people wish to live by
The ecological imperative to live within the global biophysical carrying capacity and maintain biodiversity
The economic imperative to ensure that basic needs are met worldwide
AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO RESOURCES – SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC – IS FUNDAMENTAL TO ITS IMPLEMENTATION
Social Ecological
Economic
Human Systems
Natural Systems
Barriers to Implementation
• cleavages
• artificial separations
• divisions
Solitudes, Silos and Stovepipes
Lack of Shared Meaning
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Human Systems
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Governments
• keep it simple
• implementation gaps
• system rigidities
• system inconsistencies
• KISS
• questions of legitimacy
• who gets to frame the question?
• who gets to decide who the experts are?
• dialogue versus consultation
• electoral cycles
Governments Continued
Status QuoAdapted from Holling 1986
Connectedness
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accessible carbonnutrients & energy
Exploitationopportunistr-strategypioneer
Conservationfire
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Releasedimax
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• complex, dynamic living systems
•information will always be incomplete, science uncertain
• not easily bounded
• highly normative
• time, place and scale dependent
The Context
• beyond any one sector or level of government to solve
• demands unprecedented levels of collaboration and partnership to implement
• complexity of the dialogue
The Context Continued
• rapid knowledge diffusion
• private-public partnerships, public-public partnerships, civil society
• research-government partnerships
• interdisciplinary research
• trans-disciplinary solutions
Sustainable Development Innovation, Creativity and Competitiveness
ReconciliationAdapted from Holling 1986
Connectedness
Stor
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l (Po
tent
ial) Renewal
accessible carbonnutrients & energy
Exploitationopportunistr-strategypioneer
Conservationfire
k-strategystorm
pest
Releasedimax
construction
A New Governance Model
Domains of Appreciation
Sustainable Development
Emerging Policy Domains
Trans-disciplinary Networks of Collaboration
Sectoral Implementation
Sectoral Implementation
Sectoral Implementation
Expanded Policy Development
PARADIGMS
PARADIGMS
VALUES
VALUES
EnlargedDecision-MakingContext
Desired Futures
PolicyAlternatives
PolicyApproaches
Strategies &Tactics
FEEDBACK
A Governance Checklist — As if it Mattered?
• only one domain—sustainable development?
• integrated decision-making
• policy congruence
• policy alignment
• Sustainable community development will not be achieved unless supported by a strong legal system. For in a constitutional democracy, the legal system is the mechanism through which the values of the people are expressed and their beliefs acted upon.
Adapted from Boyd 2003
Concrete Immediate Actions
•get the prices right
•carbon tax (all revenues devoted to mitigation)
• enforceable national air quality standards
• enforceable national water quality standards
• national law guaranteeing safe drinking water
•national law guaranteeing safe drinking waters
Concrete Immediate Actions Continued
• law to protect wild and scenic rivers
• law guaranteeing citizens access to information
• long-term planning • strategic research imperative by the granting councils
• enshrine in the Charter the rights to access to clean air, water and food
• ClimateACTION