Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
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In: Ecology and Society, Vol. 28, No. 2, 24, 07.06.2023.
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T1 - Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
AU - Coenen, Johanna
AU - Sonderegger, Gabi
AU - Newig, Jens
AU - Meyfroidt, Patrick
AU - Challies, Edward R.T.
AU - Bager, Simon
AU - Busck-Lumholt, Louise M.
AU - Corbera, Esteve
AU - Friis, Cecilie
AU - Frohn Pedersen, Anna
AU - Laroche, Perrine C.S.J.
AU - Parra Paitan, Claudia
AU - Qin, Siyu
AU - Roux, Nicolas
AU - Zaehringer, Julie Gwendolin
N1 - We acknowledge support by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance.
PY - 2023/6/7
Y1 - 2023/6/7
N2 - Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social problems generated in such telecoupled systems. We focus on the spatial dimension of governance fit in relation to global commodity flows and telecoupled systems. Specifically, we draw on examples from land use and global agricultural commodity governance to examine two overarching types of governance mismatches: boundary mismatches and resolution mismatches. We argue that one way to address mismatches is through governance rescaling and illustrate this approach with reference to examples of three broad types of governance approaches: trade agreements, due diligence laws, and landscape approaches to supply chain governance. No single governance approach is likely to address all mismatches, highlighting the need to align multiple governance approaches to govern telecoupled systems effectively.
AB - Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social problems generated in such telecoupled systems. We focus on the spatial dimension of governance fit in relation to global commodity flows and telecoupled systems. Specifically, we draw on examples from land use and global agricultural commodity governance to examine two overarching types of governance mismatches: boundary mismatches and resolution mismatches. We argue that one way to address mismatches is through governance rescaling and illustrate this approach with reference to examples of three broad types of governance approaches: trade agreements, due diligence laws, and landscape approaches to supply chain governance. No single governance approach is likely to address all mismatches, highlighting the need to align multiple governance approaches to govern telecoupled systems effectively.
KW - Sustainability Governance
KW - environmental governance
KW - human-environment interactions
KW - scale
KW - spatial mismatch
KW - supply chain
KW - telecoupling
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/ed9079c9-3dcb-3e7d-b3ca-5127eea8aac0/
U2 - 10.5751/ES-14133-280224
DO - 10.5751/ES-14133-280224
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 28
JO - Ecology and Society
JF - Ecology and Society
SN - 1708-3087
IS - 2
M1 - 24
ER -