Article
Environmental Studies
Arantza Murillas-Maza, Antonio Garcia-Allut, Martin Aranda, Cesar Pazos, Ane Iriondo, Miriam Montero
Summary: This research aims to analyze the participation and influence of Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) in the European Union Atlantic Area, providing recommendations for policymakers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and SSF representatives. There is a large potential for enhancing the influence of SSF on decision-making processes, and transitioning to community-based management models is deemed necessary. Measures have been taken in Western Waters to introduce participatory processes and self-management tools at the local and regional levels.
Article
Management
Daniela Cristofoli, Scott Douglas, Jacob Torfing, Benedetta Trivellato
Summary: In some cases, collaborative governance arrangements can achieve both legitimacy and accountability, with the potential for coexistence. Through analysis of various cases and conditions, theoretical propositions for future research can be formulated.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Fisheries
Sara Orofino, Gavin McDonald, Juan Mayorga, Christopher Costello, Darcy Bradley
Summary: When fisheries managers lack visibility of fishing activities, it enables illegal fishing and overfishing, hindering sustainable fisheries goals. Increasing transparency in vessel tracking offers promising potential for improved management. This paper provides a conceptual overview of how transparency can enhance fisheries management, identifying four pathways and the conditions for effective governance. By examining costs and benefits and addressing information gaps, this research highlights the need to understand the context and goals for better transparency models.
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Social Issues
Alexander Buhmann, Christian Fieseler
Summary: The rapid innovation in artificial intelligence raises concerns about human autonomy, fairness, and justice, responsible innovation in AI requires public engagement and informed discourse, the framework should address the opacity of AI and focus on roles and dependencies of organizations, civil society actors, and media in exploring pathways for responsible AI innovation to support better public governance.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Augusta Ferreira, Carlos Santos, Helena Inacio, Alberto J. Costa, Ana Maria Bandeira, Brizida Tome, Carla Joaquim, Cristina Gois, Denise Curi, Deolinda Meira, Graca Azevedo, Mafalda Jesus, Maria Goreti Teixeira, Patricia Monteiro, Ruben Duarte, Rui Pedro Marques
Summary: This article presents a framework for assessing the accountability of private social solidarity institutions (IPSS), along with preliminary results from a pilot test conducted on Portuguese IPSS. The framework, developed through a combination of methods including literature review, field work, and a focus group, consists of six dimensions and 76 indicators. Data for the pilot test were collected through questionnaires from 2018 to 2020. Despite the limited sample size, the pilot test identified trends and areas where IPSS entities need to focus on improving their accountability. The potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were also identified.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Christina W. Y. Wong, Chee Yew Wong, Sakun Boon-itt, Ailie K. Y. Tang
Summary: This paper explores how nature-inspired enterprises can be accountable to the natural environment through environmental transparency and stakeholder governance. By analyzing the environmental transparency practices of 50 companies, it shows that exemplar firms improve their environmental information disclosure following accountability criteria, allowing stakeholders to play a governance role effectively.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Ari Waldman, Kirsten Martin
Summary: This study investigates the factors affecting the perceived legitimacy of algorithmic public policy decisions, including the type of decision, procedural governance, input data, and outcome errors. The findings show that the decision type and human governance have significant impacts on the perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions.
BIG DATA & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Bo Li, Peng Qi, Bo Liu, Shuai Di, Jingen Liu, Jiquan Pei, Jinfeng Yi, Bowen Zhou
Summary: The rapid development of AI technology has led to the deployment of various systems. However, many current AI systems have vulnerabilities, are biased, and lack privacy protection. This review provides a comprehensive guide for building trustworthy AI systems, introducing the framework of AI trustworthiness and organizing various approaches. Concrete action items are offered for practitioners and stakeholders to improve AI trustworthiness. Key opportunities and challenges for future development are identified, emphasizing the need for a paradigm shift towards comprehensively trustworthy AI systems.
ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
(2023)
Article
Management
Marco Bisogno, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros
Summary: The study found that higher levels of budget transparency positively affect the quality of governance, and vice versa, demonstrating simultaneous causality between both issues.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Chiara Ferraboschi, Jimena Monroy-Gomez, Breda Gavin-Smith, Kalpana Beesabathuni, Puja Tshering, Srujith Lingala, Neha Bainsla, Daniel Amanquah, Priyanka Kumari, Kesso Gabrielle van Zutphen, Klaus Kraemer
Summary: Climate change, rapid urbanization, war, and economic recession are key drivers of the disruptions in current food systems, worsened by COVID pandemic. Inadequate diets contribute to the triple burden of malnutrition, affecting billions of people worldwide. The high cost of nutritious diets poses a challenge in low- and middle-income countries. Urgent food system transformations are needed to provide affordable and nutritious diets to address social and environmental challenges.
Article
Management
Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Peter Triantafillou, Signe Helmer Christensen
Summary: Collaborative governance serves as a promising supplement to traditional bureaucracy and New Public Management, but its legitimacy and accountability are questionable. This article presents a comprehensive mapping of the scholarly literature, highlighting the diverse conceptions, types, and critiques of accountability and legitimacy influenced by two democratic logics.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Communication
Paddy Leerssen, Tom Dobber, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese
Summary: The Facebook Ad Library aims to improve transparency and accountability in online advertising, and this article investigates how journalists have utilized this tool in their reporting. The analysis of print journalism reveals different use cases, from reporting on political campaigns to uncovering specific wrongdoings. However, interviews with journalists show that they are critical of the tool and its limitations. These findings provide empirical support for public regulation of ad archives, highlighting the public interest in advertising transparency and the reliance of journalists on incomplete access frameworks.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Management
Maude Brunet
Summary: The study explores the main objectives and effects of a governance framework for megaprojects from the perspective of project actors. It finds that there are specificities and tensions between government efficiency, legitimacy and accountability, with each level being related to a central objective. Tensions exist within and between levels, making it challenging to attain an overall equilibrium.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Yue Liu, Qinghua Lu, Guangsheng Yu, Hye-Young Paik, Liming Zhu
Summary: Blockchain eliminates the need for trusted intermediaries by enabling decentralization in software applications. However, concerns about the reliability and efficiency of blockchain arise due to vulnerabilities in on-chain decision-making and off-chain coordination. Conventional governance frameworks do not apply to blockchain, leading to a lack of clear authority in the ecosystem. This paper presents a comprehensive blockchain governance framework addressing these issues and demonstrates its feasibility through qualitative analysis and case studies.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Law
Andreas Eriksen
Summary: This paper discusses the legitimacy of political reasoning in agency decision-making, challenging both the avoidance model and specification model and proposing the public reason model as a third alternative. The public reason model requires agencies to base their value judgments on a publicly accessible framework of reasoning, which is interpreted as their overarching mandate.
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
A. Amarender Reddy, Sandra Ricart, Timothy Cadman
Article
Philosophy
Hugh Breakey
Summary: People attach great importance to others' expectations of their behavior, and conforming to these expectations is ethically justified. A specific class of "reasonable expectations" can create obligations, even if they arise from temporary practices and the duty-bearer did not create or directly benefit from them. The obligation arises due to the significant benefits that come from such conformity, which can be endorsed from various ethical perspectives and involve key moral factors.
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Rolf Schlagloth, Edward A. Morgan, Timothy Cadman, Flavia Santamaria, Gabrielle McGinnis, Hedley Thomson, Douglas H. Kerlin, Tek Narayan Maraseni, Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark, Danielle Clode, Alexandra Mcewan
Summary: This paper provides a comparative analysis of two koala management plans in two Australian municipalities, using principles of landscape management. Despite different approaches, the evaluation results show similar performance, with common strengths and weaknesses. The absence of consistent standards for koala protection in Australia poses a challenge to conservation efforts.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Anita Shrestha, Sikha Karki, Upama Koju, Tek Maraseni, Ambika P. Gautam, Tim Cadman, Sony Baral
Summary: This study investigates the governance quality of existing forest management strategies for red panda protection in Nepal from the perspectives of multi-stakeholders. The findings show that while online survey participants generally consider the management strategies effective, this effectiveness is less pronounced for marginalized populations. Local communities, who heavily rely on forests, continue to face unequal resource distribution and benefit sharing. Therefore, there is a need to prioritize capacity building, income generation, and alternative livelihoods to strike a balance between conservation needs and basic needs of forest-dependent communities.
ECOSYSTEMS AND PEOPLE
(2022)
Review
Fisheries
Katja Cooper, Hugh Breakey, Melea Lewis, Rebecca Marshallsay, Alex Naraniecki, Charles Sampford
Summary: This paper uses a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review methodology to investigate the ethical values, moral principles, methods and reform proposals in aquaculture ethics scholarship. Through analysis of 150 journal articles, six core marine economy ethics principles are identified: Environmental Protection, Fairness, Stakeholder Participation, Harm Prevention, Beneficence and Trustworthiness. A comprehensive multidimensional legitimacy model is used to uncover ethical gaps and identify promising areas for future aquaculture ethics research.
FISH AND FISHERIES
(2023)
Article
Philosophy
Hugh Breakey
Summary: Rational manipulation refers to the intentional omission of information that contradicts thesis X, in order to ensure that B arrives at the correct conclusion. However, this behavior may violate B's consent, epistemic autonomy, and personal autonomy. Nevertheless, it is crucial to consider the context, as there are instances where intentional occlusion of evidence is not considered rational manipulation, especially when there are conflicting expectations regarding argumentation roles and goals.
ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Timothy Cadman, Tek Maraseni, Upama Ashish Koju, Anita Shrestha, Sikha Karki
Summary: This paper investigates forest management and sustainability issues in Nepal, focusing on the governance of the community forest user group initiative. It provides a literature review on the historical and current situation of forest governance in Nepal, explores the impacts of unsustainable logging and the World Bank Report, and analyzes stakeholder attitudes. It also presents a case study on applying sustainability standards in protecting Nepal's Red Panda while promoting sustainable forest management and community development.
Article
Business
Hugh Breakey
Summary: Legitimacy of codes of ethics comes from multiple sources, including the content of the codes and opportunities presented during the development, adoption, and implementation stages. To enhance the efficacy of codes of ethics, it is important to consciously utilize these sources of legitimacy.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2021)
Article
Demography
Hugh Breakey, William Ransome, Charles Sampford
Summary: This article explores whether the methods by which states implement citizens' human rights may have serious weaknesses in ensuring the rights of migrant health professionals. The moral approach to human rights, rooted in normative philosophy, is seen as generally reliable but may fail to adequately protect migrant health professionals. Issues faced by these professionals include lack of political priority, challenges in monitoring, inability of federal lawmakers to impact key policies, threat of pathways to nowhere, and state-enabled exploitation of employees.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
Edward A. Morgan, Tim Cadman, Brendan Mackey
Summary: Forests play a crucial role in global ecosystems, but face threats from competing land uses. Integrated landscape approaches aim to create sustainable forest land use through holistic resource management. This paper addresses the limited theoretical basis of landscape approaches by integrating key components such as ecosystem integrity, governance systems, and planning processes in forest landscapes.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Communication
Hugh Breakey
Summary: Meta-argument allegations involve protesters claiming that an interlocutor's speech is offensive or will lead to negative social consequences. While they can bring moral and epistemic benefits, there is a dark side to such allegations that must be considered. These allegations can disrupt discussions, impede interactions, and escalate conflicts if used excessively.
Article
Area Studies
A. Amarender Reddy, Sandra Ricart, Tim Cadman
SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hugh Breakey
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tim Cadman, Tek Maraseni
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Cornelia B. Krug, Eleanor Sterling, Timothy Cadman, Jonas Geschke, Paula F. Drummond de Castro, Rainer Schliep, Isimemen Osemwegie, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Tek Maraseni
ECOSYSTEMS AND PEOPLE
(2020)
