1st Edition

The Politics of Knowledge and Global Biodiversity

By Alice Vadrot Copyright 2014
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

The establishment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) points to the crucial role attributed to science and knowledge for the successful implementation of biodiversity politics by both scientists and policy-makers. With the increased importance of biodiversity in international politics, and in part inspired by the success the Intergovernmental Panel on... Read more

Introduction  1. How we view Nature now: the emergence of 'biodiversity'  2. A Novel Approach: 'epistemic selectivities'  3. Who needs a 'Science-Policy Interface' for Biodiversity  4. Conception and Birth of  New International Body: the IPBES  5. The Manifold Narratives of the IPBES negotiations  6. Epistemic Selectivies: Knowledge and Institutional Change

Biography

Alice B. M. Vadrot is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge, UK.

This amount on the history of tortuous paths taken by the negotiations of IPBES is extremely well documented for all that relates to the international stage. The theoretical development of concern highlighted by the use of the concept of epistemic selectivity does not affect its main merit fulfilling the thankless task of clearing of a field of international action through the social sciences, almost in time real. - Florian Charvolin