TY - JOUR
T1 - Governing through community: Transformative geographies from the bottom up
AU - Schmid, Benedikt
AU - Smith, Tom
AU - Taylor Aiken, Gerald
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - At a time of globally intensifying yet highly unequally felt crises, an overwhelming majority of formal governmental bodies continues to adhere to institutional frameworks in which social justice and ecological integrity are no more than secondary objectives. Committed primarily to market integrity and economic growth, key top-down governance arrangements appear out of sync with the immediate needs of the majority of populations and ecosystems. The continued deterioration of the latter, meanwhile, further exacerbates the deepening socio-economic inequalities both within and across the Global North and South.
AB - At a time of globally intensifying yet highly unequally felt crises, an overwhelming majority of formal governmental bodies continues to adhere to institutional frameworks in which social justice and ecological integrity are no more than secondary objectives. Committed primarily to market integrity and economic growth, key top-down governance arrangements appear out of sync with the immediate needs of the majority of populations and ecosystems. The continued deterioration of the latter, meanwhile, further exacerbates the deepening socio-economic inequalities both within and across the Global North and South.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1999ae95-5826-3737-9e89-69673a1bbc14/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101458371&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1928
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1928
M3 - Article
SN - 1756-932X
VL - 31
SP - 155
EP - 158
JO - Environmental Policy and Governance
JF - Environmental Policy and Governance
IS - 3
ER -