Abstract
A growing number of expert organizations aim to provide knowledge for global environmental policy-making. Recently, there have also been explicit calls for stakeholder engagement at the global level to make scientific knowledge relevant and usable on the ground. The newly established Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is one of the first international expert organizations to have systematically developed a strategy for stakeholder engagement in its own right. In this article, we analyze the emergence of this strategy. Employing the concept “politics of legitimation,” we examine how and for what reasons stakeholder engagement was introduced, justified, and finally endorsed, as well as its effects. The article explores the process of institutionalizing stakeholder engagement, as well as reconstructing the contestation of the operative norms (membership, tasks, and accountability) regulating the rules for this engagement. We conclude by discussing the broader importance of the findings for IPBES, as well as for international expert organizations in general.
Highlights
A growing number of expert organizations aim to provide knowledge for global environmental policy-making
We address a crucial research gap: there is a growing literature on the opening up of international organizations (Nasiritousi et al 2016; Tallberg et al 2013; Zürn 2014) and on the construction of local, situated legitimacy (Connelly 2010; Turnhout et al 2015), little empirical research has been conducted on such participation in international expert organizations (Lidskog and Sundqvist 2011)
The fourth draft enumerates a number of issues that need to be dealt with, such as eligibility and selection criteria, gender, disciplines, balance of regions, and so forth (IPBES 2014a, 2)
Summary
A growing number of expert organizations aim to provide knowledge for global environmental policy-making. The newly established Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is one of the first international expert organizations to have systematically developed a strategy for stakeholder engagement in its own right.
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