Governance of Environmental Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems of Global Inter-Regional Connectedness (GOVERNECT)

全球区域间互联远程耦合系统中的环境可持续性治理（GOVERNECT）

• 批准号: 323198293
• 负责人: Dr. Edward Challies
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Umweltkommunikation (INFU)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/323198293?language=en
• 关键词: Governance; Environmental; Sustainability; Telecoupled; Systems

Ecological sustainability problems arise not only 'locally' or 'globally' but also due to specific interconnections between distant regions. Such globally 'telecoupled' systems are increasingly the focus of interdisciplinary land-change and social-ecological systems research. Political science and other public governance research, however, have tended to focus either on the state, global institutions or multi-level systems, thus neglecting new phenomena of 'globalization' which connect specific distant regions. There is an urgent need to translate the findings of telecoupled social-ecological systems analyses into governance research. Drawing on the literatures on global environmental governance, social-ecological systems, global production networks, multilevel and polycentric governance, and policy coherence and environmental policy integration, GOVERNECT seeks to address this gap and systematically examine the governance implications of global inter- regional telecoupling. What do these phenomena imply for the effective governance of global unsustainability? How do states, civic and private actors react to these mounting challenges?Empirically, the project plans to conduct one in-depth case study and around 15 comparative case studies.Drawing on previous work by the applicants, the core case study examines the inter-regional soy commodity chain between Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) and Germany (Lower-Saxony), identifying its sustainability implications in and beyond both regions. Building on an analysis of existing actor networks and governance institutions as a multi-level system (including their interplay, polycentricity, policy coherence and environmental policy integration), the project will develop explorative-strategic governance scenarios, engaging with relevant policy-makers and stakeholders and speculating on the plausibility, the likely effects, and the interactions of considered governance options.In order to gain a broader understanding of the governance issues of global telecoupling, approximately 15 further cases will be studied in parallel to the core case study, drawing mainly on secondary sources rather than field research. This broader study will allow us to map the breadth of possible interconnections and governance responses in a variety of contexts, and to isolate causal factors. Moreover, focusing on the perspective of German public (state) governance, the inclusion of a broader spectrum of inter-regional connectedness phenomena will help address the challenge of how governance responds to a variety of such phenomena.GOVERNECT will be the first project to harness recently developed systems concepts for telecoupling to global environmental governance research on the basis of a sound empirical study. The proposed research is particularly innovative because it analyses governance institutions (or lack thereof) in their actual sustainability-relevant context.

生态可持续性问题不仅出现在“本地”或“全球”，而且还由于遥远地区之间的特定相互联系。这种全球性的“远耦合”系统越来越多的跨学科的土地变化和社会生态系统研究的重点。然而，政治学和其他公共治理研究往往侧重于国家、全球机构或多层次系统，从而忽视了连接特定遥远地区的“全球化”新现象。迫切需要将远距离耦合社会生态系统分析的结果转化为治理研究。GVERNECT借鉴了关于全球环境治理、社会生态系统、全球生产网络、多层次和多中心治理以及政策一致性和环境政策整合的文献，力求弥补这一差距，并系统地审查全球区域间远程耦合的治理影响。这些现象对有效治理全球不可持续性意味着什么？国家、民间和私人行为体如何应对这些日益严峻的挑战？根据经验，该项目计划进行一项深入的案例研究和大约15项比较案例研究，核心案例研究借鉴申请人以前的工作，审查巴西（南里奥格兰德）和德国（下萨克森州）之间的区域间大豆商品链，确定其在两个区域内外的可持续性影响。在分析现有行为体网络和治理机构作为一个多层次系统的基础上（包括它们的相互作用、多中心性、政策一致性和环境政策整合），该项目将制定探索性战略治理设想方案，与相关决策者和利益攸关方接触，并推测可行性、可能的影响，为了更广泛地了解全球电信耦合的治理问题，将在核心案例研究的同时研究另外大约15个案例，主要依靠二手资料，而不是实地研究。这项更广泛的研究将使我们能够在各种情况下绘制可能的相互联系和治理对策的广度，并分离出因果因素。此外，从德国公共（国家）治理的角度出发，通过对地区间关联现象的更广泛的研究，可以解决治理如何应对这一挑战。GOVERNECT将成为第一个在实证研究的基础上，将最近开发的远程耦合系统概念与全球环境治理研究相结合的项目。拟议的研究是特别创新的，因为它分析了治理机构（或缺乏）在其实际的可持续性相关的背景下。