Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance
Local Experiences of a Global Concept
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:3rd Dec '19
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Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance.
Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina, and Malaysia to shed light on what benefit-sharing looks like from the local viewpoint. These local-level case studies move away from the idea of benefit-sharing as defined by a single international organization or treaty. Rather, they reflect different situations where benefit-sharing has been considered, including agriculture, access to land and plants, wildlife management, and extractives industries. Common themes in the experiences of local communities form the basis for an exploration of spaces for local voices at the international level in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), often argued to be the most open arena to non-state actors, and therefore vital to how local voices may be included at the global level. The book analyzes the decisions of the CBD parties to produce an in-depth reflection on how this arena builds and delimits spaces for the expression of local community themes, and paths for local community participation including community protocols. The book then situates the bottom-up findings in the wider debate about global civil society and deliberative democracy in environmental governance.
This interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental law, political ecology and global governance, as well as practitioners and policymakers involved in multilateral environmental agreements.
"an insightful bottom-up study of global environmental governance, specifically focusing on benefit sharing within the framework established by the 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)....The work rests particularly well within the literature on deliberative democracy in global environmental governance, and its conclusions will resonate with political ecology scholars who emphasize civil society and the role that NGOs play in empowering local communities." Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.
--CHOICE, M. Gunter Jr., Rollins College
ISBN: 9780367181871
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 462g
216 pages