1st Edition
Good Governance and Sustainable Development
1. Introduction
Maria Gavris and Jessica Savage
PART I: Good governance: realities and possibilities
2. Re-governing the self-governing: environmental governance is not about the Environment
Jessica Savage
3. Good labour governance
Maria Gavris and Jason Heyes
4. Gender equality and good governance: women's political leadership and participation
Marta Guerriero
5. Decolonial governance as good governance
Vanessa Burns
PART II. Challenges to good governance
6. After three decades of sustainable development, how do public and private organisations in Thailand govern sustainability within their organisation?
Molly Wimonmat Srichamroen
7. Good governance in supranational settings: the principle of participation and responsiveness to public demands in the EU
Anastasia Ershova
8. No green car: naïve, balanced, and bleak views of governance
Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley
Conclusion
Maria Gavris and Jessica Savage
Biography
Maria Gavris is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is a political economist with a particular interest in governance for sustainable development, capitalism's multiple interconnected crises, and alternatives to the mainstream development paradigm. At Warwick, she designed and convenes an interdisciplinary module on Good Governance and Sustainable Development.
Jessica Savage is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist with a background in tropical coral reef ecology and natural resource management. Her work is focused on the efficacy of marine protected areas and their impacts on the environment, economy, local indigenous communities, and tourism. Her research interests surround human-ecosystem interactions, and in particular the monitoring of marine resources.
