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Global public good

About: Global public good is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 510 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10381 citations.


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10 Sep 2010-Science
TL;DR: It is argued that more radical changes are required that recognize biodiversity as a global public good, that integrate biodiversity conservation into policies and decision frameworks for resource production and consumption, and that focus on wider institutional and societal changes to enable more effective implementation of policy.
Abstract: The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in unsustainable exploitation of Earth’s biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change, ocean acidification, and other anthropogenic environmental impacts. We argue that effective conservation of biodiversity is essential for human survival and the maintenance of ecosystem processes. Despite some conservation successes (especially at local scales) and increasing public and government interest in living sustainably, biodiversity continues to decline. Moving beyond 2010, successful conservation approaches need to be reinforced and adequately financed. In addition, however, more radical changes are required that recognize biodiversity as a global public good, that integrate biodiversity conservation into policies and decision frameworks for resource production and consumption, and that focus on wider institutional and societal changes to enable more effective implementation of policy.

940 citations

Book ChapterDOI
29 Jul 1999
TL;DR: The notion of global public goods was introduced by Thomas Jefferson as discussed by the authors, who argued that knowledge is not only a public good but also a global or international public good, and that the international community has a collective responsibility for the creation and dissemination of one global public good -knowledge for development.
Abstract: Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, described knowledge in the following way: “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” In doing so, Jefferson anticipated the modern concept of a public good. Today, we recognize that knowledge is not only a public good, but a global or international public good. We have also come to recognize that knowledge is central to successful development. The international community, through institutions like the World Bank, has a collective responsibility for the creation and dissemination of one global public good -knowledge for development. The purpose of this paper is to review the concept of global public goods, to explain the sense in which knowledge is a public good, and to explore the implications for international public policy that derive from the fact that knowledge is a global public good. In particular, I shall emphasize the role of knowledge for development, articulated forcefully in this year’s World Development Report, 2 and the consequences that follow.

648 citations

Book
16 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The authors examines a series of managerial and political challenges that pertain to the design and implementation of production strategies and the monitoring and evaluation of global public goods provision as participatory decision-making enhances the political support for - and thus the effectiveness of - certain policy decisions.
Abstract: Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities The production of global public goods requires the orchestration of initiatives by a large number of diverse actors across different levels and sectors It may require the collaboration of governments, business and civil society, and in most cases it almost certainly calls for an effective linkage of the local, national, regional, and global levels In light of today's new realities, this book examines a series of managerial and political challenges that pertain to the design and implementation of production strategies and the monitoring and evaluation of global public goods provisionAs participatory decision-making enhances the political support for - and thus the effectiveness of - certain policy decisions, this volume offers suggestions on a number of pragmatic policy reforms for bringing the global public more into public policy making on global issues Nine case studies examine the importance of the global public good concept from the viewpoint of developing countries, exploring how and where the concerns of the poor and the rich overlapProviding Global Public Goods offers important and timely suggestions on how to move in a more feasible and systematic way towards a fairer process of globalization that works in the interests of all

461 citations

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TL;DR: This Viewpoint puts forth a proposed framework for resilient health systems and the characteristics that defi ne them, informed by insights from other countries that have embraced resilience as a practice.

433 citations

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TL;DR: The feasibility shows that the existing medical-patent regime is severely unjust and its imposition a human-rights violation on account of the avoidable mortality and morbidity it foreseeably produces.
Abstract: One-third of all human lives end in early death from poverty-related causes. Most of these premature deaths are avoidable through global institutional reforms that would eradicate extreme poverty. Many are also avoidable through global health-system reform that would make medical knowledge freely available as a global public good. The rules should be redesigned so that the development of any new drug is rewarded in proportion to its impact on the global disease burden (not through monopoly rents). This reform would bring drug prices down worldwide close to their marginal cost of production and would powerfully stimulate pharmaceutical research into currently neglected diseases concentrated among the poor. Its feasibility shows that the existing medical-patent regime (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rightsFTRIPSFas supplemented by bilateral agreements) is severely unjustFand its imposition a human-rights violation on account of the avoidable mortality and morbidity it foreseeably produces.

361 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20234
202213
202118
202027
201913
201822