Urban debates for climate change after the Kyoto Protocol

Tu, Yong

doi:10.1177/0042098017717363

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“…The tourism industry is today rated as the major contributor to the high rate of plastic waste in the global environment. This is given the fact that the tourism industry associates with so many products that are meant to be used only one time or two and then get disposed of (Tedor and Nikola, 2014;Tu, 2018). Given the failure that has been recorded in this area, there has been a growing rate of Plastic Waste during tourism activities.…”

Section: Global Tourism Plastics Initiativementioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking Legal and Socio-economic Challenges to Plastic Waste Regulation in Nigeria: Lessons learned from Singapore

Aidonojie,

Afolabi,

Obieshi

et al. 2024

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<div class="WordSection1"><div class="WordSection1"><p><em>Plastic, a versatile material derived from synthetic compounds, is widely employed globally due to its durability, cost-effectiveness, and ease of production. However, its improper disposal poses significant environmental threats. Despite concerted efforts, the indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste persists in the country's land and water environments. This study aims to comprehensively explore the legal guidelines and socio-economic initiatives relevant to plastic waste regulation, drawing inspiration from Singapore's successful model. Three hundred and ten questionnaires were also distributed among residents of Nigeria to achieve this objective. The data collected underwent thorough analysis, employing both descriptive and analytical methods. In this context, Singapore stands out as an exemplary model for Nigeria to emulate in addressing the challenges posed by plastic waste. Drawing inspiration from Singapore's successful strategies, It is imperative to meticulously regulate every stage, from production to disposal, to ensure environmental sustainability and minimize the detrimental impact of plastic pollution. The study found the need for more legislative measures in Nigeria to combat the pervasive problem of indiscriminate plastic waste disposal effectively. Also, The government should establish irresponsible plastic waste disposal's environmental and health risks and dumping of plastic waste.</em></p></div></div>

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Section: Global Tourism Plastics Initiativementioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking Legal and Socio-economic Challenges to Plastic Waste Regulation in Nigeria: Lessons learned from Singapore

Aidonojie,

Afolabi,

Obieshi

et al. 2024

yst

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“…For the government, the potential of GBs as a "behavioral incubator" can strengthen the influence of governance on social adaptation, by providing new, durable behavioral approaches for deepening widespread social adaptation. It could be complementary to those traditional behavioral interventions whose effects are "positive and persistent, but short-lived due to the rebound effect" [51] (p. 11). Hence, it is worthwhile for the state to invest more in R&D in this area and promote the application of relevant research in the industry.…”

Section: Social Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Roles and Synergies of Actors in the Green Building Transition: Lessons from Singapore

Zhang

2022

Sustainability

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Transforming the building sector toward sustainability based on green building (GB) technologies is a multi-faceted, multi-actor process of socio-technical transition. Understanding the different roles of primary actors in both technological and non-technological dimensions of GB transition is pivotal for effectively engaging multiple GB stakeholders during this process. However, relevant research is rare in the GB literature. This paper conducts an actor analysis based on a conceptual framework constructed on the actor and power relation typology from the multi-actor perspective approach and regime insights from the multi-level perspective theory. A qualitative case study of Singapore is adopted to exemplify the roles of the government, developers, citizens and NGOs, determined by their respective power and multi-actor power relations, and to evaluate their synergetic influence on the technological, social and governance dimensions of the GB transition. It was found that the government leads all three dimensions of GB transition and it has an indirect impact on promoting the technological transformation and social adaption by synergizing the other three actors. As the intermediary between government and non-government actors, NGOs indirectly influence GB transition by primarily assisting the government. Developers and citizens directly contribute to technological transformation and social adaption, respectively, and they have an indirect impact on the opposite dimensions through interacting with one another. We argue that a successful GB transition entails synergies from multi-actor interactions and the interplay of technical and non-technical development. This paper offers a heuristic framework for multi-actor analysis in the multi-faceted GB transition and generates policy lessons for other cities.

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“…To some extent, research conducted during the wave of urban optimism prioritized the identification of parameters to explain successful urban climate governance, which resulted in recommendations for collaboration (Pitt & Bassett, 2013 ), integration across sectors (Kithiia & Dowling, 2010 ; Puppim de Oliveira, 2009 ; Yung & Chan, 2012 ), cooperation across levels of government (Jones, 2012 ; Leck & Simon, 2013 ) and the establishment of long‐term goals and regulative frameworks (Wheeler, 2008 ). During the wave of urban pragmatism , these ideas have consolidated into consensus regarding the need for urban climate governance to be participatory, attuned to bottom‐up dynamics, strengthened in terms of monitoring and extended time‐frames, holistic, and integrated across sectors, scales, administrative boundaries and realms of knowledge (Barton, 2013 ; Chu, Schenk, & Patterson, 2018 ; Dulal & Akbar, 2013 ; Echebarria, Barrutia, Eletxigerra, Hartmann, & Apaolaza, 2018 ; Gouldson et al, 2016 ; Hardoy, Hernández, Pacheco, & Sierra, 2014 ; Hardoy & Velásquez Barrero, 2014 ; Nguyen, Davidson, & Gleeson, 2018 ; Rosendo, Celliers, & Mechisso, 2018 ; Serrao‐Neumann, Renouf, Kenway, & Low Choy, 2017 ; Swart et al, 2014 ; Torabi, Dedekorkut‐Howes, & Howes, 2017 ; Tu, 2018 ; Yasmin, Farrelly, & Rogers, 2018 ). Interest has grown on identifying effective mechanisms for policy management, such as, for example, delivering flexible policies (Daniere, Drummond, NaRanong, & Tran, 2016 ; Radhakrishnan, Pathirana, Ashley, Gersonius, & Zevenbergen, 2018 ; Torabi, Dedekorkut‐Howes, & Howes, 2018 ) and mainstreaming climate concerns into other policy sectors (Di Giulio, Bedran‐Martins, Vasconcellos, Ribeiro, & Lemos, 2018 ; Koch, 2018 ; Sharma & Singh, 2016 ) (although an argument for the need to deliver policies with narrow scope has been made recently, Lyles, Berke, & Overstreet, 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas

Broto

Westman

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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In this review, we take stock of the last decade of research on climate change governance in urban areas since the 2009 conference in Copenhagen. Using a systematic evaluation of academic publications in the field, we argue that the current moment of research has been shaped by two recent waves of thought. The first, a wave of urban optimism, which started in 2011 and peaked in 2013, engaged with urban areas as alternative sites for governance in the face of the crumbling international climate regime. The second, a wave of urban pragmatism, which started in 2016, has sought to reimagine urban areas following the integration of the “sub‐national” as a meaningful category in the international climate regime after the 2015 Paris Agreement for Climate Action. Four themes dominate the debate on climate change governance in urban areas: why there is climate action, how climate action is delivered, how it is articulated in relation to internationally reaching networks, and what implications it has to understand environmental or climate justice within urban settings. Calls to understand the impacts of climate change policy have fostered research on climate change politics, issues of power and control, conflicts, and the inherently unjust nature of much climate policy. What is largely missing from the current scholarship is a sober assessment of the mundane aspects of climate change governance on the ground and a concern with what kind of cultural and socio‐economic change is taking place, beyond comparative analyses of the effectiveness of climate policies. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions

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Urban debates for climate change after the Kyoto Protocol

Cited by 13 publications

References 85 publications

Breaking Legal and Socio-economic Challenges to Plastic Waste Regulation in Nigeria: Lessons learned from Singapore

Breaking Legal and Socio-economic Challenges to Plastic Waste Regulation in Nigeria: Lessons learned from Singapore

The Roles and Synergies of Actors in the Green Building Transition: Lessons from Singapore

Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas

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