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Innovation in Governance Governance and Management Approaches for Sustainable Development

Innovation in Governance Governance and Management Approaches for Sustainable Development. Dr. Carsten Mann Department of Sociology / Center for Technology & Society Technische Universität Berlin Capacity Building Workshop, DPADM/UNDESA, Manama/Bahrain, 24-27 June 2013. Outline.

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Innovation in Governance Governance and Management Approaches for Sustainable Development

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  1. Innovation in GovernanceGovernance and Management Approaches for Sustainable Development Dr. Carsten Mann Department ofSociology / Center for Technology & Society Technische Universität Berlin CapacityBuilding Workshop, DPADM/UNDESA, Manama/Bahrain, 24-27 June 2013

  2. Outline • Background of Sustainable Development Linking environment with development • Challenges for Sustainable Development The need for fundamental and innovative solutions • Innovations for Sustainable Development Complex, long-term, multi-level, multi-actor processes • Operationalisation of SD Governance Common principles and a way forward

  3. TagCloud: UN DESA/UNDP 2012: Synthesis of National Reports for Rio+20

  4. 1. Background of Sustainable Development • Brundtland report “Our Common Future” (WCED 1987): • Sustainable development = Redirection of social development in ways that • combine economicwealth, environmentalprotection and socialcohesion, • i.e. an attempt to link environment with development With complex connections + interactions between the local to the global Source: WikimediaCommons

  5. 1. Background of Sustainable Development • SD serves as a political and social orientation: • Development that meets the needs of current generations without • compromising the needs of future generations. • Normative: Future generations should have same possibilities • Subjective: Requires assessment of what these needs are • Ambiguous: Needs determined by cultural/ecological/economic conditions • No blueprint/one-fits-all solutions for sustainable development

  6. 2. Challenges for Sustainable Development • Challenges for sustainable development: • Complex social-ecological systems, inter-linkages • Long time scales; creating uncertainty • Different ecological, institutional, political, & cultural contexts • Different ideas, values, norms, power among actors • Complex North-South linkages (co-development); … • One has to live with these challenges + work with them • Shifting perspectives: government => governance

  7. 3. Innovations for Sustainable Development • Sustainable development demands for governance innovations! • Approaches must recognize and deal (1): • Longtime horizon: Sustainability is intergenerational • Importance of scale: Differences between local – global • Context sensitivity: Context-specific balance between values/issues • Include mechanisms: Interaction & coordination (society & state)

  8. 3. Innovationsfor Sustainable Development • Approaches must further recognize and deal (2): • Sustainability can never be defined objectively, but is political • Each development raises new problems for society • Trade-offs between different values & interests • Sustainable governance & management is about participation, inclusion and reflexivity • Continues process: joint discussion, negotiation, and balancing of values + interests + knowledge (=> social learning process!)

  9. 4. Operationalisation of SD Governance • Key features and components (Kemp, Parto and Gibson 2005): • Policy integration • Vertical + horizontal coordination of policies and corresponding positions/initiatives of actors (=> choice + implementation) • Common objectives; criteria; trade-off rules; indicators • For particular regions, nations, localities; for evaluation; transparency • Information and incentives for practical implementation • Inter- and transdiciplinary knowledge, monitoring for guidance • Programmes for system innovation • Anticipatory, using visions, learning & adaptation

  10. 4. Operationalisation of SD Governance • One way to SD is strengthening community development • SD needs to work with/through/for local communities • Useful mechanisms • Participatory approaches (identification of needs, issues) • Prioritization & sequencing of objectives/action • Space for experimentation, innovation, learning • Create, nurture, enable self-responsibility (ownership!) • Collaborative management (partnerships; networks)

  11. Summary: Sustainable Development Governance • Focus shift to local level, connected to international goals: SD, CBD… • (=> locally suitable, globally sustainable!) • Continuous process of articulating perspectives, values, issues, conflicts • (=> societal learning process) • Importance of communication, deliberation, negotiation! • Need for space for learning • Incorporation of ecological AND socioeconomic AND cultural factors • Guidance by Interdisciplinary + transdiciplinary knowledge

  12. Thank you! www.innovation-in-governance.org

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