SEAS Env Governance

One-stop shop for news, insight, and analysis of international environmental issues, from SEAS grad students at University of Michigan

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

Welcome to another semester of tweets on Environmental Governance from @gotonura's (prof) and @nataliepayer's (GSI) course entitled International Environmental Policy at @UMSEAS! Lots of great insights coming your way. #EAS563 #UMSEAS #EnvironmentalGovernance @TucsonPeck

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

In #NRE563 we discussed that maintaining public trust & preventing corruption are imperative for successful implementation of conservation programs (and in enviro gov in general). Scott Pruitt missed the memo https://t.co/gq1dF2tdwX

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

Last week in #EAS563 we debated the necessity of public participation in environmental gov. Over 80K people participated by providing comments to MDEQ re: Nestle's water extraction, yet failed to stop the admin permit green light. #Nextsteps? #MIwater https://t.co/010qrlwrBH

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

#EAS563 Public welfare has to be a priority for politicians. Things as easy and fundamental as appropriate and understandable food labeling can do so much to improve people’s health and to start better practices in the food industry. People before profits https://t.co/KbzNR8ARsr

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

#EAS563 Tenure proves to be a key challenge for forest-based climate change mitigation efforts. Therefore, institutions both local and national need to be strong and reliable enough for the communities to feel secure about their land and how to protect it https://t.co/MZPjROUUqg

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

Such an interesting and distinctive point of view: not to alienate humans from nature and its conservation but to expand philosophies and worldviews from cultures that have coexisted with it for thousands of years to the modern world #EAS563 https://t.co/By3jW1vABB

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

What does Madagascar's vanilla have to do with deforestation & illegal redwood harvesting? Mafias, forest encroachment, vanilla bubble...We learned in #EAS563 that there are no simple solutions to envirormental governance, but let's demand #accountability https://t.co/c0h3JkhzPa

[Calli VanderWilde @callivdw]

Drylands world wide face major challenges due to climate change. Namely, desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD). Today in #EAS563 we discuss how this increases the vulnerability of residents in Chepareria, Kenya @EnvGovernance

[Andrew Kinzer @KinzerAndrew]

My version of Ostroms (2007) multitier framework for analyzing #socio-ecological systems. @gotonura @EnvGovernance #EAS563

[Andrew Kinzer @KinzerAndrew]

With a trend in increasingly militarized conservation strategies and coercive conservation policies (Duffy 2014), could #peaceparks shift the political ecology of conservation in conflict zones from perpetuating conflict to reducing it? #EAS563 https://t.co/2kOK2mlu1E

[Calli VanderWilde @callivdw]

Reading up on protected areas for #EAS563 with Agrawal and Redford (2009) https://t.co/WhvQTBuaX8 While PAs are the most popular strategy to protect, they have displaced of tens of millions causing (further) "impoverishment, social disarticulation and political disempowerment”

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

Regardless of whether you value biodiversity for aesthetics, economic (Biodiversity loss in Europe costs the EU ~ 3% of its GDP/year), or health benefits, it's imperative to prevent biodiversty loss from transforming into ecological collapse.
#EAS563
https://t.co/iCHfY2iz4L

[Andrew Kinzer @KinzerAndrew]

550 projects and US$36-43 billion #marketbased #conservation strategies around the world is a lot! When are they effective? Motivated buyers, motivated sellers, metrics, and low-transaction-cost institutions.

#EAS563 @EnvGovernance
https://t.co/XuASuwnRsz

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

@ScottWalker walks back on Wisconsin's efforts to designate part of Lake Michigan as a National Marine Sanctuary, despite support from local leaders, businesses, shipwreck enthusiasts, environmentalists #GreatLakes #environmentalgovernancefailure #EAS563
https://t.co/IwItxkLXaI

[Andrew Kinzer @KinzerAndrew]

Plant-based Legos?! It's about time companies like this transition to more #sustainable and responsible sourcing. Good example of how good business sense and consumer pressure can bring about change! #EAS563 @EnvGovernance
https://t.co/298gNO3kJ4

[Andrew Kinzer @KinzerAndrew]

Kasese, Uganda has committed to 100% #RenewableEnergy by 2020. Funded 10% by the community and 90% funded by the govt. "We have decided to say bye bye to expensive kerosene and oil" - Mayor Godfrey Kaluku Kime. #sustainabilitytransition #EAS563
https://t.co/uOXhOiK3we

[Andrew Kinzer @KinzerAndrew]

Communities are saying "Enough is enough!" I hope the temporary moratorium on #logging and #charcoal helps curb the rampant logging and degradation of Kenya's forests. https://t.co/RnlXIjMuu2 via @dailynation
#EAS563

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

Knowing the cause of a problem and wording it correctly is FUNDAMENTAL to manage decisions to fix the problem.
#EAS563
https://t.co/OJzYuRKsIU

[SEAS Env Governance @EnvGovernance]

Regardless of whether you value biodiversity for aesthetics, economic (Biodiversity loss in Europe costs the EU ~ 3% of its GDP/year), or health benefits, it's imperative to prevent biodiversty loss from transforming into ecological collapse.
#EAS563
https://t.co/iCHfY2iz4L