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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE GLOBAL AGENDA

LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE GLOBAL AGENDA. Global Trends. Globalisation of: Business and trade in goods and services; Communication systems; Media coverage and ownership, hence awareness; Travel and tourism; Urban links with mega-city growth

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE GLOBAL AGENDA

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  1. LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE GLOBAL AGENDA ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  2. Global Trends Globalisation of: • Business and trade in goods and services; • Communication systems; • Media coverage and ownership, hence awareness; • Travel and tourism; • Urban links with mega-city growth • Environmental impacts – air and atmospheric, water and oceanic, biodiversity, pathogens, climate; • Responses… ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  3. ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  4. Global Responses • Global institutions • UN and World Bank systems • Global Associations – ICLEI, • Global NGOs – WWF, IUCN, Greenpeace • Global conventions Everything happens locally! • Global intentions • National interpretations • Local applications THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  5. It’s NOT the thought that counts! Three elements necessary for behavioural change: Awareness of the need to change, and of the goal of change Right attitude and a firm intention to change, i.e. a decision The ability (authority, resources, knowledge, etc.) to change (empowerment) ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  6. Global Goals Many Conventions, including Millennium Development Goals • Trans-generational sustainability • Environment and natural resources • Economic • Social • Reduce poverty • Remove gender discrimination • Improve governance • Encourage empowerment = participation ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  7. Sustainability: local - global Sustainability presupposes: • Peace and stability (war/conflict is not sustainable) • Wide-scale participation • Socio-economic justice Ultimately it will also require • Some degree of population and migration control • Much more effective use of resources • A fundamentally different value/economic/ development system LEM has significant role to play. ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

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  9. LEM & Conflict • Mutual environmental concerns MAY be used to build “bridges” and end conflict. • At local levels, good environmental management can be used to avoid tension and conflict. • Environmental management cannot work well in conflict situations – locally, regionally, nationally, internationally. But… ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  10. LEM & Poverty Alleviation Poverty is more than lack of money Local Environmental Management is about: • Awareness creation and empowerment; • Finding solutions to environmental issues that also lead to…. • Better incomes • Improved living standards, better homes, water & sanitation, indoor & outdoor environment; • Improved health • Doing more with very little – effectiveness & efficiency; • Reuse and recycle – the poor are experts! ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

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  13. GINI COEFFICIENT The Gini coefficient can range from 0 to 1; it is sometimes multiplied by 100 to range between 0 and 100. A low Gini coefficient indicates a more equal distribution, with 0 corresponding to complete equality, while higher Gini coefficients indicate more unequal distribution, with 1 corresponding to complete inequality. To be validly computed, no negative goods can be distributed. Thus, if the Gini coefficient is being used to describe household income inequality, then no household can have a negative income. When used as a measure of income inequality, the most unequal society will be one in which a single person receives 100% of the total income and the remaining people receive none (G=1); and the most equal society will be one in which every person receives the same percentage of the total income (G=0). ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  14. Poverty-Conflict-Environment CONFLICT POVERTY ENVIRONMENT This applies regionally, nationally, and locally! ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

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  16. LEM and Gender Direct and indirect differences due to gender: • Values & attitudes towards living/natural environment; • Interactions with, & experience of, the local environment; • Participation in identifying issues, determining priorities; • Actual/potential ability to effect change (decision-making); • Impacts of change are different. • Cultural, social, and religious factors; • Institutional and organisational factors; • Economic factors. LEM must mobilise the positive features of both genders! ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  17. LEM & Democracy Democracy is about empowering the people: • Voicing aspirations, goals and priorities; • Identifying issues, concerns; • Alerting authorities to system failures, dangers, shortfalls; • Participating in policy and decision-making; • Participating in implementation, monitoring, evaluation. Democracy in LEM means mobilising people, enabling them to pursue legitimate & sustainable environmental goals. ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

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  19. LEM & Good Governance Good governance is about: • Service mindedness, rapid response to public needs; • Transparency, as tool to reduce corruption; • Openness and two way information flows; • Building trust between parties – LA, business, civic society Requires: • Willingness and intention to continuously improve; • Monitoring & evaluation for betterment, not for blame. ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

  20. Achievement of global goals of sustainability is ultimately dependent on effective local environmental management. The future of the world rests in YOUR hands! ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 2010 AFRICA

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