Democratization, decentralization, and local environmental policy capacity: Hungary and Mexico

Assetto, Valerie J.; Hajba, Éva; Mumme, Stephen P.

doi:10.1016/s0362-3319(03)00007-7

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“…In the case of water-resource management and flood risk, municipal governments are likely to be constrained by necessarily narrowly defined spatial mandates. The rapid turnover in local governments and the relative immaturity of democratic processes at the municipal level further challenges municipal government legitimacy (Assetto et al, 2003;Cabrero-Mendoza, 2000).…”

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Adaptive capacity in evolving peri-urban spaces: Responses to flood risk in the Upper Lerma River Valley, Mexico

Eakin

Lerner

Murtinho

2010

Global Environmental Change

105

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confidence: 99%

Adaptive capacity in evolving peri-urban spaces: Responses to flood risk in the Upper Lerma River Valley, Mexico

Eakin

Lerner

Murtinho

2010

Global Environmental Change

105

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“…However, we also learned that those policies that actively promote stakeholder participation in identifying common policy objectives (protected areas, basin units, and wildlife units) can help to improve governance. By extension, the policy attributes of the socioecosystem approach have the potential to democratize the policy process, by building interpersonal trust and strengthening democratic values, transparency, and governance, as each feeds into the other (Eade 1997, Assetto et al 2003, Olsson et al 2004, Flores 2005, Graf Montero et al 2006T. K. Ahn, unpublished manuscript).…”

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Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Challenger¹,

Córdova²,

Chavero³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. The urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to converge on the socioecosystem concept as the most appropriate theoretical framework for research and public policy. The socioecosystem approach recognizes that social systems are integrated with natural systems and seeks to adaptively comanage socioecosystem coevolution for the sustainable development of both systems. We hypothesize that incorporation of this approach into environmental policy in Mexico could help resolve many of the problems that currently undermine policy effectiveness. To find out to what extent policy professionals might concur with this hypothesis, and what the opportunities and obstacles to implementing socioecosystem-based policy might be, research was conducted to elicit the expert opinion of officials responsible for formulating and implementing environmental policy in Mexico. The principle opportunities consist in the fact that experts intuitively understand the socioecosystem approach, and that most perceive advantages in adopting it because its policy attributes can potentially help to resolve many of the factors they identify as limiting the success of current environmental policies. Obstacles to its adoption include institutional barriers and the vested interests that benefit from the status quo.

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“…A proximidade do órgão com os problemas ambientais locais é um dos principais argumentos a favor da municipalização do licenciamento ambiental, de maneira que facilita e incentiva uma maior participação da sociedade na problemática ambiental local (ARRUDA JÚNIOR; ANDRADE, 2015;ASSETTO et al, 2003; ÁVILA; MALHEIROS, 2012;REIS, 2012). Esse ponto foi destacado apenas pelos entrevistados PITEP1 e PITEP2.…”

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Análise comparada da descentralização do licenciamento ambiental em municípios dos estados de Minas Gerais e Piauí

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Fonseca

2017

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Apesar do crescente interesse pela municipalização do licenciamento ambiental, poucos estudos científicos com revisão de pares foram publicados sobre esse fenômeno, sobretudo no Nordeste. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar comparativamente experiências de municipalização do licenciamento ambiental em dois municípios no estado do Piauí (Teresina e Água Branca) e dois municípios no estado de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte e Betim). Utilizou-se uma abordagem metodológica qualitativa de estudo de casos múltiplos, com dados coletados por meio de análises documentais e de entrevistas estruturadas com representantes de prefeituras. Foram identificadas diferenças significativas, por exemplo, de capacidade institucional e arranjos regulatórios, entre os estados e cidades pesquisados. A qualidade do sistema de licenciamento ambiental nos municípios pode estar relacionada ao porte da administração municipal e às condições socioeconômicas locais, mas estudos adicionais são necessários para confirmar tal situação. De maneira geral, os entrevistados corroboram estudos anteriores que salientam barreiras de recursos humanos e de infraestrutura para a eficiência do licenciamento ambiental local. O artigo conclui com sugestões de estudos futuros.

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Democratization, decentralization, and local environmental policy capacity: Hungary and Mexico

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

Adaptive capacity in evolving peri-urban spaces: Responses to flood risk in the Upper Lerma River Valley, Mexico

Adaptive capacity in evolving peri-urban spaces: Responses to flood risk in the Upper Lerma River Valley, Mexico

Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Análise comparada da descentralização do licenciamento ambiental em municípios dos estados de Minas Gerais e Piauí

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