Essays about: "Global Commons"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words Global Commons.

1. 1. Designing International Agreements on Global Governance : Analysis of the Applicability of Ostrom’s and Stern’s Principles on the BBNJ Agreement

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Ellinor Nyzell; [2023]
   Keywords : Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction; Marine Conservation; United Nations Law of the Sea; Ostrom’s Design Principles; Global Commons;

   Abstract : Areas beyond national jurisdiction or the high seas are vital areas for biodiversity and marine resources in our oceans, yet the protection and conservation of this global resource is insufficient due to absence of international agreement concerning the matter. Therefore, the new Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) agreement was recently agreed upon, with the objective of ensuring protection for these resources. READ MORE

3. 2. From Grassroot to Global: Community-Based Entrepreneurs Shaping Systemic Change

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Merel Evers; Merel Jasmijn Hulst; [2023]
   Keywords : Depletion of natural resources; re-organizing the economy; bottom-up efforts; community-based entrepreneurship; common-based economy; eco-villages; community boundary management; collective action; social and environmental change; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This research explores how community-based entrepreneurs can contribute to the reorganization of natural resource management and find solutions to environmental problems within the current capitalist economy. Recent scholars on post-capitalism, believe that the economy can be organized by different institutions than the market and investigate the role of individuals as catalyst of environmental and social change from the bottom up. READ MORE

4. 3. From community ownership to community fellowship : qualitative analysis of the socio-economic consequences of asset redistribution in rural Scotland

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Mathieu Baptiste Adrien Chanteloup; [2022]
   Keywords : asset redistribution; commoning; community building; community capacity; spiralling-up trajectory; social capital; rural development; Scotland;

   Abstract : Understanding inequalities regarding land and asset ownership is essential to comprehending rural areas. An unbalance situation regarding the ownership of assets, especially in rural areas where people are even more dependent on land management and the resources they can get from it, makes rural society more fragile. READ MORE

5. 4. THE COMMONS : Exploring power relations in climate fiction TV series from an Ecofeminist perspective

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Jannika Katharina Nowak; [2022]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Patriarchal and masculinist ideologies have facilitated the global climate crisis and need to be transformed to address climate change successfully and achieve climate justice (Gaard, 2015). Climate fiction stories can envision future states of society (Robinson, 2016) and can thus challenge these ideologies and disrupt binary concepts of domination (Anglin, 2015). READ MORE

6. 5. Human Rights and the Commodification of Pollution – A Genealogical Study of the Carbon Market with an Intergenerational Justice Perspective

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Ida Helene Sørensen-Diercksen; [2022]
   Keywords : Carbon market; human rights; climate change; intergenerational justice; genealogy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The carbon market promises cost-effective climate change mitigation and economic growth. However, it has been criticised as greenwashing and delaying necessary decarbonisation. This thesis examines the genealogy of the carbon market to address the human rights consequences for future generations. READ MORE