Abstract
This research note reflects on the methods (as distinct from methodology) of a 5-year interdisciplinary and multi-site research project in global environmental law and their links to questions of research ethics. We highlight the iterative processes that proved necessary to compare five case studies on local communities engaged in varied discussions on fair and equitable benefit-sharing in different regions of the world and their implications for international environmental law. The note advocates for an explicit reflection on research methods and ethics to acknowledge and address power relationships in global environmental law research.
Highlights
This research note reflects on the methods used in a five-year interdisciplinary and multi-site research project in global environmental law, and their links to questions of research ethics
We highlight the iterative processes that proved necessary to compare five case studies on local communities engaged in varied discussions on fair and equitable benefit sharing in different regions of the world and their implications for international environmental law
This research note reflects on the challenges experienced and lessons learnt during a five-year, interdisciplinary and multi-site research project to investigate fair and equitable benefit sharing from a global environmental law perspective.[1]
Summary
This research note reflects on the challenges experienced and lessons learnt during a five-year, interdisciplinary and multi-site research project to investigate fair and equitable benefit sharing from a global environmental law perspective.[1] We understand global environmental law as a sub-set of transnational environmental law, namely, as legal phenomena that transcend national frontiers and have a global justification.[2] This is the case, for example, of an international environmental treaty objective (fair and equitable benefit-sharing) the realization of which relies on a variety of different legal orders.[3] Benefit sharing, while enshrined in a variety of international. We first provide an overview of the research design process and describe the moves from the initial ontological standpoint through to methodology This serves to explain the choice of common social science methods we used to study benefit sharing at different levels and in different sites (Section 2). We discuss how our iterative view of methods and ethics fed back into methodological considerations and produced new research questions (Section 5)
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