Presentation 2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Conference (University of East Anglia, 1-3 July 2014)

1. Equitable pathways to effective Allocation
in global biodiversity governance
Biodiversity Governance Unit
Centre for Philosophy of Law
Brendan Coolsaet
2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance
Norwich, UK – 1-3 July 2014

2. Participation as a pathway to effective Allocation?
Effective
allocation
Participation
pathway
• greater compliance
• adherence to the norm
• legitimacy
• institutional fit
• bottom-up action
• …

3. 3
Under which conditions can participation lead to
effective Allocation?
Effective
allocation
Participation
pathway
Conditions
?

4. 4
Evolution of participation in biodiversity governance
Bottom-up
governance
Post-normal
science
Utilitarian
narratives
environmental governance increasingly concerned with ‘people'
Images: Jan Sasse (TEEB)

5. Environmental justice as parity of participation
(economic)
distribution
(socio-cultural)
recognition
(political)
representation
Source: Nancy Fraser (applied to environmental governance by
David Schlosberg)

6. Justice-relevant conditions for participation
Effective
allocation
Participation
pathway
Conditions
• (economic)
distribution
• (socio-cultural)
recognition
• (political)
representation

7. Some examples in biodiversity-governance
Effective
allocation
Participation
pathway
Justice-relevant
conditions
Land-
ownership in
participatory
plant breeding
Community-
based
measurement of
air toxic
exposures
Inclusion of
representative
participants

8. brendan.coolsaet@uclouvain.be
http://twitter.com/bcoolsaet
http://uclouvain.academia.edu/BrendanCoolsaet
Thank you.