CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Breitmoser, Lara |
|---|---|
| Title | The Power of Participative Preparation - Investigating the Effect on International Organizations' Policy Ambition and Comprehensiveness in Biodiversity Governance |
| Summary | The international community has so far failed to halt the loss of biodiversity including falling short of all Aichi targets the UN had set for 2020. Drawing the lessons from the previous defeat, the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity decided to change to a party-led, participatory approach for preparing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This thesis investigates what impact such a party-led process has on the policy ambition and comprehensiveness in biodiversity governance. Drawing on the literature on technocratic versus participatory governance, it is hypothesized that party-led preparations like the GBF produce less ambitious yet more comprehensive outcomes than expert-led developments such as the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Ambition hereby captures depth and strictness while comprehensiveness refers to broadness, scope, and the inclusion of different stakeholders. The processes and outcomes of the two strategies’ development are compared by combining document analysis and expert interviews in a qualitative multi-method design. The results show that while the GBF is indeed more comprehensive, it is only slightly less ambitious. This implies that participative processes might be more powerful than theoretically expected. The research thereby contributes to the understanding of how to design strategy preparation in order to most effectively tackle global issues in the environmental realm and beyond. |
| Supervisor | Li, Andrew Xiang |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/breitmoser_lara.pdf |
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