Assessing the Progress of Environmental Governance in Small Island Economies

John Laing Roberts ()
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John Laing Roberts: Indian Ocean Commission

Chapter Chapter 15 in Shaping the Future of Small Islands, 2021, pp 269-281 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Environmental governance is a key element in the United Nations (UN) system of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for monitoring sustainable development. Unhappily this UN data system is an unwieldy package, which has run into severe, early, not unanticipated, difficulties. Try using it for international comparative analysis and you run into immediate trouble. For it is crippled by both very low levels of submission of complete national reports and the wide-scale intrusion, by the UN, of estimated and statistically modelled values to beef-out official reports, as an undependable substitute for the missing hard data from the member states themselves. This chapter reviews the inadequate state of current reporting of environmental governance in small island developing states (SIDS). It proposes a sharper focus on fewer key indicators which could achieve greater levels of sustainable accurate reporting. This could then lead to better strategic management, especially in small states whose commitment to data gathering is heavily constrained by limited professional capacity.

Keywords: Environmental performance; Governance; Environmental reporting; SIDS; Missing data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4883-3_15

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