An Inter-Disciplinary Methodology for Researching Benefit-Sharing as a Norm Diffusing in Global Environmental Law

Morgera, Elisa; Parks, Louisa

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“…12 The choice of methods used to carry out the case studies also sought to respond to the aim of gaining an 'organic' view of how issues linked to benefit-sharing were discussed, to the practical issues raised by carrying out five different case studies while working with NGOs, and a range of ethical questions related to research in marginalized communities, consent, and benefit-sharing. At the research design stage, a menu of methods deemed the least intrusive and workable was selected (Morgera and Parks, 2014). Inspired by work on participatory action research, the methods used varied for the different cases after consultations with the partner NGOs.…”

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“…In addition, efforts were made to share relevant benefits from the research process as the project unfolded. These efforts were also inspired by participatory action approaches and their attention to the co-production of knowledge based on community needs (Morgera and Parks, 2014;Parks and Morgera, 2019). As mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, the case study research took place within the framework of an interdisciplinary project.…”

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“…. 3 The section draws on Morgera and Parks (2014), discussed further in Parks and Morgera (2015). 4 To draw another legal parallel, the internalization stage can be equated with the idea of customary law.…”

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Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance

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2019

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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.

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Section: Comparative Local Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%