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The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): Meeting the challenge of biodiversity conservation and governance book cover

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The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Meeting the challenge of biodiversity conservation and governance

Edited By Marie Hrabanski, Denis Pesche Copyright 2017
254 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda. With contributions from more than a dozen well-renowned researchers in political science, law... Read more

1. Introduction, Analyzing IPBES Functioning within the Biodiversity Regime Complex and Beyond 

Marie Hrabanski and Denis Pesche 

2. IPBES and Governance of the International Biodiversity Regime Complex 

Daniel Compagnon and Philippe Le Prestre 

3. The Birth of a Science-policy Interface for Biodiversity: The History of IPBES 

Alice Vadrot 

4. IPBES Mandate and Governance 

Denis Pesche, Guillaume Futhazar and Sandrine Maljean 

5. From Climate to Biodiversity: Procedural Transcriptions and Innovations within IPBES in Light of IPCC’s Practices 

Guillaume Futhazar 

6. The IPCC Experience and Lessons for the IPBES 

Daniel Compagnon and Wolfgang Cramer 

7. Making the IPBES Conceptual Framework: A Rosetta Stone? 

Maud Borie and Denis Pesche 

8. Building Process, Effectiveness and Limits of an IPBES Stakeholder Group 

Marie Hrabanski, Mohamed Oubenal and Denis Pesche 

9. Capacity Building for Global Science-policy Interface Activities: Establishment of the IPBES Task Force on Capacity Building 

Selim Louafi 

10. Indigenous Challenges under IPBES: Embracing Indigenous Knowledge and Beyond 

Claudio Chiarolla and Annalisa Savaresi 

11. First Thematic Assessment on Pollination: Between the Legitimization of IPBES and Tensions Regarding the Selection of Knowledge and Experts 

Fanny Duperray, Marie Hrabanski and Mohamed Oubenal 

12. Conclusion  

Philippe Le Prestre

Biography

Marie Hrabanski and Denis Pesche are researchers in political sociology at CIRAD (Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development), Montpellier, France. Within the research unit UMR ART-Dev, their work focuses on international biodiversity policies.

"There are 11 narrative chapters and a final set of conclusions that provide some excellent food for thought ... For those interested in the science-policy interface or in the problems in finding agreement between diverse stakeholders with conflicting expectations, there is much of interest in this volume." - David Walton, in The Bulletin of the British Ecological Society (September 2017).
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