Powered and Disempowered by Numbers: Data Issues in Global Governance

Siqueira, Isabel Rocha de; Leite, Christopher C.; Beerli, Monique Jo

doi:10.1163/19426720-02301003

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“…A key recent trend in global governance is the use of codification, assessment, measurement of results, quantification, and governance indicators to promote performance evaluation, and accountability [88,89]. Using indicators to inform decision-making, if designed correctly, can offer consistent, efficient, transparent, and impartial metrics to gather information, summarize complex realities, exercise judgment, and support actors in designing and executing policies.…”

Section: Measuring Implementation: the Environmental Conventions Indexmentioning

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Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Escobar-Pemberthy

Ivanova

2020

Sustainability

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Global environmental conventions are created to address and resolve global environmental problems. Assessments of the achievement of specific environmental goals, however, indicate that there is room for progress and that improved collective action is required. Given the few existing studies that measure the implementation of international environmental law, it is important to expand existing analytical frameworks about international environmental agreements and their translation into national policies. This article explains the rationale and design of the Environmental Conventions Index, an implementation measurement tool we have developed at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The Index assesses the implementation of global environmental conventions in two clusters—conservation and pollution—showcasing the main trends for both countries and conventions. Using a mixed-method approach, we explain the development of this measurement tool as an instrument to inform policy changes at the national and global levels and present aggregate results of the analysis. As global environmental challenges in the conservation of natural resources and the persistence of pollutants become critical, assessment of countries’ performance on international environmental goals is essential. We offer an innovative method that provides academic analysis and policy input to improve implementation, and thus the effectiveness of these governance instruments in addressing global environmental challenges.

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Section: Measuring Implementation: the Environmental Conventions Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Escobar-Pemberthy

Ivanova

2020

Sustainability

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“…The management of very detailed maps of the territory, augmented with all sorts of data on activities, economic, transportation, etc. and including pictures constitute a good example of the rise of platforms in the knowledge of the activity of the territory of a temporal accuracy unmatched by governments (Siqueira-Leite-Beerli 2017). Their relative share of such data has thus declined continuously since the turn of the Millennium.…”

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Digital Platforms: A New Grammar for Territories?

Grumbach

2017

eip

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Digital platforms are reshaping the geometry of the world. Their wide adoption by the population worldwide for an increasing number of activities, confer them a dominant position, which challenges established powers. Their control over the global flow of data and their algorithmic treatment leads to new asymmetries of power. New systems emerge, that unlike the Westphalian States do not correspond to territories on a map, but to complex networks controlling sectors of activities at a global scale. It is a real challenge and a necessity to reinvent a grammar of territories, to be able to grasp the new objects and their dependencies, and address the related issues of social justice and sustainable interaction with our planet.

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Legislative Research on Personal Information Protection: Taking Face Recognition Information as an Example

Lijia

2023

Applied Economics and Policy Studies

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Powered and Disempowered by Numbers: Data Issues in Global Governance

Cited by 6 publications

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Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index

Digital Platforms: A New Grammar for Territories?

Legislative Research on Personal Information Protection: Taking Face Recognition Information as an Example

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