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Governance Approaches That Can Be Used To Implement Sustainability Criteria, Evgenia Pavlovskaia
Governance Approaches That Can Be Used To Implement Sustainability Criteria, Evgenia Pavlovskaia
Evgenia Pavlovskaia
Implementation of sustainability criteria, both in legal frameworks and voluntary sustainability standards, is an urgent and important issue. In the article, three less state-centric governance approaches and their capacity to be used to implement sustainability criteria have been investigated. The chosen approaches are good governance, multi-level governance and selfgovernance. Their potential strengths and weaknesses have been pointed out. The research indicates that sustainability criteria can be implemented in different ways, which have the potential to highlight, strengthen or weaken different aspects of their function. The use of different governance approaches, or their combinations, can lead to different implementation results for …