Abstract
This chapter considers the specific governance challenges that face developing countries in implementing sustainable development objectives through policy and law. After exploring the integration of sustainable development, as a concept, into domestic laws and trends in sustainable development policy practice that seeks to value the contribution of ecosystem services, this chapter will then consider how existing governance structures serve these objectives in developing country contexts. Environmental and sustainable development decisions can no longer be made in a ‘siloed,’ discrete decision-making process; instead, as this chapter will demonstrate, more integrated approaches with a high degree of coordination and collaboration are required. This can enable decision makers to execute more informed policy design incorporating environmental accounting and quantifying the benefits associated with ecosystem services into the decision-making process.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Implementation of sustainable development in the Global South |
| Subtitle of host publication | strategies, innovations and challenges |
| Editors | Sumaiya Khair, Shawkat Alam, Muhammad Haque |
| Place of Publication | Oxford, UK ; New York ; Dublin |
| Publisher | Hart Publishing |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 127-146 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509963775, 9781509963768 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781509963751 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright the Author(s) 2024. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- Sustainable development
- Agenda 2030
- Ecosystem Services
- International law
- Governance
- Ecosystem management
- Governance Challenges
- Environmental Accounting
- Decision-Making Process
- Informed Policy Design