The construction of legitimacy in European nature policy: expertise and participation in the service of cost-effectiveness

Turnhout, Esther; Behagel, Jelle; Ferranti, Francesca; Beunen, Raoul

doi:10.1080/09644016.2015.1008260

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“…Expertise is never shaped in an organizational vacuum. The construction and maintenance of expertise is important for the legitimacy of expert organizations; for how they are interpreted, evaluated and respected by other actors (Berg and Lidskog 2018;Connelly 2010;Leino and Peltomaa 2012;Turnhout et al 2015). But the construction of expertise is also constitutive of world-making (Jasanoff 2012).…”

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Organizing international experts: IPBES’s efforts to gain epistemic authority

Gustafsson

Lidskog

2018

Environmental Sociology

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What role do organizational preconditions play in the constitution of expertise? This is the guiding question for this paper, which studies how expertise is shaped in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). By organizing the world's experts on biodiversity, IPBES sets out to produce policy-relevant knowledge. However, in contrast to many other international expert bodies such as the IPCC, IPBES assesses not only scientific knowledge, but also other forms of knowledge, including indigenous and local knowledge. In light of IPBES's ambition to become an epistemic authority by synthesizing heterogeneous knowledge forms, it is of great interest to investigate how this expertise is constructed. What does 'expertise' mean for IPBES, and how are experts selected? Based on documents studies, this study explores the organizational structure through which IPBES assesses and selects experts. The analysis finds that the construction of expertise involves scientific as well as political dimensions. In the conclusions, problems are raised that are related to the outcome of this process and may threaten the epistemic authority of IPBES. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Organizing international experts: IPBES’s efforts to gain epistemic authority

Gustafsson

Lidskog

2018

Environmental Sociology

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“…Hiermee wordt getracht de trend in het achteruitgaan van de ecologische waarde van de natuur te stoppen of zelf om te zetten in een verbetering (zie o.a. Van Koppen, 2002;De Jong, 2002;Van der Heijden, 2005 (Beunen et al, 2009;Buijs et al, 2014;Turnhout et al, 2015). Gedurende een langere periode kan daarom gesproken worden over een discursieve geslotenheid van het natuurbeleid met betrekking tot (o.a.)…”

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“…Ook bij de totstandkoming en implementatie van het Europese beleid is het Ecologie Voorop discours, met z'n nadruk op Europese regelgeving en ecologisch-wetenschappelijke kennis herkenbaar (Stoll-Kleemann, 2001a). Net als in het Nederlandse Ecologie Voorop discours lag veel nadruk op kennisoverdracht naar belanghebbenden om hen het nut van ecologische georiënteerd natuurbeleid te laten inzien (Turnhout et al, 2015). Ook veel elementen uit het Co-creatie en Economie discours zijn herkenbaar, gebaseerd op de roep om kosteneffectiviteit en win-win oplossingen vanuit neoliberale argumenten (Turnhout et al, 2015).…”

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“…Net als in het Nederlandse Ecologie Voorop discours lag veel nadruk op kennisoverdracht naar belanghebbenden om hen het nut van ecologische georiënteerd natuurbeleid te laten inzien (Turnhout et al, 2015). Ook veel elementen uit het Co-creatie en Economie discours zijn herkenbaar, gebaseerd op de roep om kosteneffectiviteit en win-win oplossingen vanuit neoliberale argumenten (Turnhout et al, 2015). agrariërs) om deze in te zetten in de rol van uitvoerder van beleidsopgaven, inclusief de realisatie van het Natuurnetwerk (Folkert & Boonstra, 2017).…”

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Vijfentwintig jaar burgerbetrokkenheid in het natuurbeleid : Analyse van beleidsdiscoursen en publiek draagvlak

Buijs¹,

Wass²,

Elands

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“…This article explores how IPBES addressed this challenge and finally adopted a formal stakeholder engagement strategy (SES). In doing so, we address a crucial research gap: although there is a growing literature on the opening up of international organizations (Nasiritousi et al 2016;Tallberg et al 2013;Zürn 2014) and on the construction of local, situated legitimacy (Connelly 2010;Turnhout et al 2015), little empirical research has been conducted on such participation in international expert organizations (Lidskog and Sundqvist 2011). One reason for this gap is that stakeholder engagement is almost always conducted as a local, small-scale, and place-based practice, with only few systematic, ambitious efforts to engage stakeholders in global environmental assessments (Saurugger 2010).…”

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Stakeholder Engagement in the Making: IPBES Legitimization Politics

Esguerra¹,

Beck²,

Lidskog³

2017

Global Environmental Politics

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A growing number of expert organizations aim to provide knowledge for global environmental policy-making. Recently, there have also been explicit calls for stakeholder engagement at the global level to make scientific knowledge relevant and usable on the ground. The newly established Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is one of the first international expert organizations to have systematically developed a strategy for stakeholder engagement in its own right. In this article, we analyze the emergence of this strategy. Employing the concept "politics of legitimation," we examine how and for what reasons stakeholder engagement was introduced, justified, and finally endorsed, as well as its effects. The article explores the process of institutionalizing stakeholder engagement, as well as reconstructing the contestation of the operative norms (membership, tasks, and accountability) regulating the rules for this engagement. We conclude by discussing the broader importance of the findings for IPBES, as well as for international expert organizations in general.

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The construction of legitimacy in European nature policy: expertise and participation in the service of cost-effectiveness

Cited by 45 publications

References 42 publications

Organizing international experts: IPBES’s efforts to gain epistemic authority

Organizing international experts: IPBES’s efforts to gain epistemic authority

Vijfentwintig jaar burgerbetrokkenheid in het natuurbeleid : Analyse van beleidsdiscoursen en publiek draagvlak

Stakeholder Engagement in the Making: IPBES Legitimization Politics

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