Representation and Accountability in Glocal Governance and the 2030 Development Agenda: Narrowing the Gap between Perceived Needs and Outcomes

Janet McIntyre-Mills ()
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Janet McIntyre-Mills: Flinders University

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2017, vol. 30, issue 5, No 1, 447-469

Abstract: Abstract The paper responds to the 2030 Development Agenda and suggests a way to enhance representation and accountability by extending the Millennium Goals and UN Sustainable Development Agenda. It summarises the content of a forthcoming volume for the Contemporary Systems Series entitled: Towards a Planetary passport for Representation, Accountability and Re-generation’. The paper reflect on studies of alternative architectures for democracy and governance and suggests a way to extend local engagement in social, economic and environmental decision making. The paper discusses a new architectures for democracy and better governance through: Addressing the issue of a priori norms and a posteriori measures for transformation towards re-generative living Finding ways to match social, cultural, economic and environmental decisions to perceived needs with a focus on food, energy and water security Narrowing the gap between perceived needs and the way resources are distributed and the way it impacts on service outcomes.

Keywords: Social justice; Participatory democracy; Resource governance; Distribution; Vulnerability; Global commons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11213-016-9407-2

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