W. Pengue

Nature and its benefits to people for a good quality of life is perceived and valued in starkly different and often conflicting ways, mainly due to different worldviews about the relationships between society and nature. This paper presents the rationale for an inclusive incorporation of this diversity of values in decision making, as well as approaches for doing so, as they co-exist and often compete in society. While developed within the context of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable to initiatives at the knowledge-policy interface, which inherently require a pluralistic approach to the multiple values of the natural world and its contribution to human societies. We argue that transformative practices aiming at sustainable futures would benefit from the recognition and orchestration of these multiple values in a wide range of policy and decision-making processes

This interdisciplinary article draws from the radical ideas of global political ecology (GPE), environmental politics, ecological economics and the sociological analysis of social movements. It seeks to help bridge the research gap regarding non-state actors' (NSAs) influence on the role of the nation-state and the United Nations in global political ecology and environmental policy, including emission reductions, such as antideforestation measures, and environmental justice. We consider NSAs as consisting of two heterogeneous global coalitions: a) civil society organizations (CSOs) and environmental non-governmental organizations, and b) peak corporate organizations with green economy objectives, here denominated green business organizations, representing transnational corporations (TNCs). After a review of prior studies, we present a version of an advocacy coalition framework; identify a timeline of changes in UN architecture and simplified NSA influence categories. We only beg...

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The authors seek to help bridge the research gap regarding the influence of UN non-state actors (NSAs) on the role of the nation-state and the UN in global political ecology and environmental policy, including emission reductions and environmental justice. We analyze the role of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs), generally seen to represent civil society organizations (CSOs) with sustainable development (SD) objectives, and peak corporate organizations with mostly green economy (GE) objectives, here denominated green business organizations (GBOs), representing transnational corporations (TNCs). To this end, we review concepts of critical state theories, sustainable development and green economy, earth system governance, architecture, agency and influence, and finally discourse analysis, narratives, agenda setting and framing. We then review the many studies on non-state actor influence on UN environmental policy. We conceptualize the CSOs and TNCs as two very broa...