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Producing Targets for Conservation: Science and Politics at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

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  • Lisa M. Campbell

    (Rachel Carson Associate Professor in Marine Affairs and Policy, in the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University)

  • Shannon Hagerman

    (Senior Research Fellow with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington)

  • Noella J. Gray

    (Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph, Canada)

Abstract

Biodiversity targets were prominent at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Having failed to reach the CBD's 2010 target, delegates debated the nature of targets, details of specific targets, and how to avoid failure in 2020. As part of a group of seventeen researchers conducting a collaborative event ethnography at COP10, we draw on observations made during negotiations of the CBD Strategic Plan and at side events to analyze the production of the 2020 targets. Once adopted, targets become “naturalized,†detached from the negotiations that produced them. Drawing on insights from science and technology studies, we analyze the interaction of science and politics during negotiations and discuss what targets do within the CBD and the broader global conservation governance network. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Lisa M. Campbell & Shannon Hagerman & Noella J. Gray, 2014. "Producing Targets for Conservation: Science and Politics at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 14(3), pages 41-63, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:41-63
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    Cited by:

    1. Wilshusen, Peter R., 2019. "Environmental governance in motion: Practices of assemblage and the political performativity of economistic conservation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 1-1.
    2. Peter R Wilshusen & Kenneth Iain MacDonald, 2017. "Fields of green: Corporate sustainability and the production of economistic environmental governance," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(8), pages 1824-1845, August.
    3. Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen & Katharina Rietig & Michelle Scobie, 2022. "Agency dynamics of International Environmental Agreements: actors, contexts, and drivers," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 353-372, June.

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    Keywords

    conservation; biodiversity; CBD; collaborative event ethnography; global conservation governance;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

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