{"id":13776,"date":"2012-10-12T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:02:51","slug":"gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2012\/10\/12\/gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"International Policy Expert Joyeeta Gupta Delivers Pardee Center Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/10\/DSC_0640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gupta\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/10\/DSC_0640-451x300.jpg\" title=\"Gupta\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13777\" height=\"300\" width=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2012\/10\/DSC_0640-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2012\/10\/DSC_0640-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>International climate change law and policy expert\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.nl\/over-de-uva\/organisatie\/medewerkers\/content\/g\/u\/j.gupta\/j.gupta.html\">Prof. Joyeeta Gupta<\/a> of\u00a0VU University Amsterdam delivered a Pardee Center Lecture titled \u201cSustainable Development Governance: \u2018Glocal\u2019 Challenges and Opportunities\u201d at the BU Castle on October 11. Along with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-sponsors of the talk included the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/\">Boston University Earth and Environment Department<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/\">Clark University Graduate School of Geography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gupta began her lecture by addressing governance challenges, including the definition of sustainable development governance, the shape of policymaking, and the role of scale in matching problems with solutions.\u00a0 She used the &#8220;North-South&#8221; paradigm as an example of how dominant national views &#8212; in particular U.S.- and EU-centrism &#8212; can shape international power relationships, and thus policy agendas and approaches to sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>She discussed three sustainable development case studies involving water, forests, and climate change. For each case she touched on the \u201cglocal\u201d component, or how local problems can have an impact on national and global policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded by advocating constitutionalism, rule of law, and well-functioning courts as necessary components of good sustainable development governance practice, especially in establishing the scientific basis for policies and standards of proof.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gupta\u2019s talk was the keynote address associated with the Pardee Center Task Force on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/research\/environmental-governance\/\">Global Environmental Governance in and for the 21st Century<\/a>, which met at Pardee House on Oct. 11 and 12. The Task Force includes a dozen experts on environmental governance at various scales, including Prof. Gupta, and is co-chaired by Pardee Faculty Fellows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/anne-short\/\">Anne Short<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/henrik-selin\/\">Henrik Selin<\/a> along with Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=876\">James McCarthy<\/a> of the Clark University Graduate School of Geography. As an outcome of the meeting, the group will produce a Pardee Task Force Report to be published in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Prof. Gupta&#8217;s lecture will be available soon on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/multimedia-library\/\">multimedia section<\/a> of this web site.\u00a0Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\">homepage<\/a> to learn about upcoming Pardee Center events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International climate change law and policy expert\u00a0Prof. Joyeeta Gupta of\u00a0VU University Amsterdam delivered a Pardee Center Lecture titled \u201cSustainable Development Governance: \u2018Glocal\u2019 Challenges and Opportunities\u201d at the BU Castle on October 11. Along with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-sponsors of the talk included the\u00a0Boston University Earth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5355,84,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24765,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}