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Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: Local Experiences of a Global Concept book cover

1st Edition

Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance Local Experiences of a Global Concept

By Louisa Parks Copyright 2020
216 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Studying benefit-sharing from the bottom up
2. Five views of benefit-sharing from the local level
3. Common themes in the five local experiences of benefit-sharing
4. Local voices, international arenas – the case of the Convention on Biological Diversity
5. Local participation in international processes: views from above and below
6. Involving local communities in international decisions: towards democratic global environmental governance

Biography



Louisa Parks is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the School of International Studies and the Department of Sociology and Social Research, Università degli studi di Trento, Italy. She was a research fellow for the BeneLex project on fair and equitable benefit-sharing in global environmental law, and has published work on community protocols and local voices in the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as civil society, social movements, and the impacts of their campaigns.

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