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Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19

COVID-19 has changed the permeability of borders in transboundary environmental governance regimes. While borders have always been selectively permeable, the pandemic has reconfigured the nature of cross-border flows of people, natural resources, finances and technologies. This has altered the avail...

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Main Authors: Miller, Michelle A., Astuti, Rini, Hirsch, Philip, Marschke, Melissa, Rigg, Jonathan, Saksena-Taylor, Poonam, Suhardiman, Diana, Tan, Zu Dienle, Taylor, David M., Varkkey, Helena
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Published: Elsevier Sci Ltd 2022
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G Geography (General)
JA Political science (General)
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spelling my.um.eprints.423152023-10-09T03:22:30Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/42315/ Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19 Miller, Michelle A. Astuti, Rini Hirsch, Philip Marschke, Melissa Rigg, Jonathan Saksena-Taylor, Poonam Suhardiman, Diana Tan, Zu Dienle Taylor, David M. Varkkey, Helena G Geography (General) JA Political science (General) COVID-19 has changed the permeability of borders in transboundary environmental governance regimes. While borders have always been selectively permeable, the pandemic has reconfigured the nature of cross-border flows of people, natural resources, finances and technologies. This has altered the availability of spaces for enacting sustainability initiatives within and between countries. In Southeast Asia, national governments and businesses seeking to expedite economic recovery from the pandemic-induced recession have selectively re-opened borders by accelerating production and revitalizing agro-export growth. Widening regional inequities have also contributed to increased cross-border flows of illicit commodities, such as trafficked wildlife. At the same time, border restrictions under the exigencies of controlling the pandemic have led to a rolling back and scaling down of transboundary environmental agreements, regulations and programs, with important implications for environmental democracy, socio-ecological justice and sustainability. Drawing on evidence from Southeast Asia, the article assesses the policy challenges and opportunities posed by the shifting permeability of borders for organising and operationalising environmental activities at different scales of transboundary governance. Elsevier Sci Ltd 2022-08 Article PeerReviewed Miller, Michelle A. and Astuti, Rini and Hirsch, Philip and Marschke, Melissa and Rigg, Jonathan and Saksena-Taylor, Poonam and Suhardiman, Diana and Tan, Zu Dienle and Taylor, David M. and Varkkey, Helena (2022) Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19. Political Geography, 97. ISSN 0962-6298, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102646 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102646>. 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102646
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topic G Geography (General)
JA Political science (General)
spellingShingle G Geography (General)
JA Political science (General)
Miller, Michelle A.
Astuti, Rini
Hirsch, Philip
Marschke, Melissa
Rigg, Jonathan
Saksena-Taylor, Poonam
Suhardiman, Diana
Tan, Zu Dienle
Taylor, David M.
Varkkey, Helena
Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19
description COVID-19 has changed the permeability of borders in transboundary environmental governance regimes. While borders have always been selectively permeable, the pandemic has reconfigured the nature of cross-border flows of people, natural resources, finances and technologies. This has altered the availability of spaces for enacting sustainability initiatives within and between countries. In Southeast Asia, national governments and businesses seeking to expedite economic recovery from the pandemic-induced recession have selectively re-opened borders by accelerating production and revitalizing agro-export growth. Widening regional inequities have also contributed to increased cross-border flows of illicit commodities, such as trafficked wildlife. At the same time, border restrictions under the exigencies of controlling the pandemic have led to a rolling back and scaling down of transboundary environmental agreements, regulations and programs, with important implications for environmental democracy, socio-ecological justice and sustainability. Drawing on evidence from Southeast Asia, the article assesses the policy challenges and opportunities posed by the shifting permeability of borders for organising and operationalising environmental activities at different scales of transboundary governance.
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author Miller, Michelle A.
Astuti, Rini
Hirsch, Philip
Marschke, Melissa
Rigg, Jonathan
Saksena-Taylor, Poonam
Suhardiman, Diana
Tan, Zu Dienle
Taylor, David M.
Varkkey, Helena
author_facet Miller, Michelle A.
Astuti, Rini
Hirsch, Philip
Marschke, Melissa
Rigg, Jonathan
Saksena-Taylor, Poonam
Suhardiman, Diana
Tan, Zu Dienle
Taylor, David M.
Varkkey, Helena
author_sort Miller, Michelle A.
title Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19
title_short Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19
title_full Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19
title_fullStr Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-19
title_sort selective border permeability: governing complex environmental issues through and beyond covid-19
publisher Elsevier Sci Ltd
publishDate 2022
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/42315/
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