The sustainable development (SD) discourse has evolved into a multifaceted policy orientation that seeks to address the key challenges of societal development that occur throughout all levels and has many linkages. SD addresses themes in a comprehensive way such as resource scarcity climate change, poverty, food security, and overall the environmental, economic, social and democratic malfunctioning and imbalance. The evolution of the SD discourse into a more encompassing development approach has been based on a premise that, instead of narrow sectoral policies and development strategies, the urgent societal challenges need to be addressed and tackled more holistically, better acknowledging their interconnected and systemic (and metasystemic) aspects. The tailoring and implementation of holistic SD approaches, however, requires also novel and more inclusive governance approaches and practices. As yet, evidence and research on successful SD governance approaches is still scarce. One of the promising candidates for such an approach is the metagovernance (MG) framework or perspective. The MG approach takes a birds-eye view and combines different governance styles into specific approaches fit for the cultures, traditions and challenges of specific cases and locations. It helps analyzing past mistakes and suggests lines to take for challenges ahead. The MG approach helps overcoming governance failures. MG has the potential to achieve sustainable results through a â??meta-levelâ?? governance, deliberation and balancing of ecological, economic and social dimensions of SD for the purposes of societal problem-solving. MG is the organization of the framework conditions under which governance can take place through joint identification of potentials or counterbalancing of observed failures in market, hierarchical and network governance, such as in relation to decision-making, steering or coordination of collective action (Christopoulos et al. 2012 ). Thus, in addition to specific tasks the State, private actors and civil society organisations (CSOs) are responsible for, there are a number of joint functions ideally exercised together. MG has the potential not only to assist in the identification of diverging development visions and the state of the integration of the underlying logics of different modes of governance. It can also contribute to a reconfiguration of the development approach if change is needed or willingness to look at plural solutions (Meuleman 2013) exists. Overall, effective, efficient and democratic governance requires a balanced patchwork of government, market, and social actions. MG can contribute to achieve this. Importantly, in a project with a global focus, emphasizing culture and agency is important as we need to understand â??the diverse meanings and traditions embodied in governance, revealing its contingent, contested, and complex trajectoriesâ? (Bevir 2010 ). The themes of the project are linked to MTTâ??s â?kasvuala themeâ? â?Maa- ja elintarviketalouden tuotannon ja maaseudun kehittäminen - kestävyys, kannattavuus ja hyvinvointiâ?. This is particularly the case as regards its subthemes â?Hyvinvointi-teema: biologista (ml. geneettistä), teknologista, yhteiskunnallista ja taloudellista tutkimustaâ? and â?Maaseudun elinkeinot, paikallis- ja aluetalous: toimijaverkostot ja muuttuva maaseutuyritysâ?. The GLOBESD key project serves to support the objectives and goals of the Green Economy Opportunities (Vihreä talous) research area. The project is thematically linked to two of LYNET research programmes: 1) Kestävä maankäyttö -tutkimusohjelma and its subtheme "Kestävä tuotanto, kulutus ja maankäyttö" as well as to 2) Biotalouden tutkimusohjelma and its sub-theme "Biotalouden tuotteiden kysyntä ja tarjonta sekä liiketoimintamallit". GLOBESD also relates to two other key research projects RULPOECON and KeMaAsu.
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Hankkeen kesto 2014 - 2015
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