Inclusion in Global Environmental Governance: Sustained Access, Engagement and Influence in Decisive Spaces

Natalia Aguilar Delgado and Paola Perez-Aleman
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Natalia Aguilar Delgado: Department of International Business, HEC Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 2A7, Canada
Paola Perez-Aleman: Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-24

Abstract: With increased participation of non-state actors in global governance, the inclusion of vulnerable groups in making sustainability regulations remains a relevant challenge requiring more research. Based on an ethnographic study on creating the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing of biological resources and knowledge, we advance a new multi-dimensional view of inclusion that integrates sustained access, involvement, and influence in the intergovernmental negotiation meetings. We elaborate the concept of decisive spaces, that is, less accessible settings where diverse actors interact in a deliberative way to co-produce recommendations and solutions to an issue that highly influence the regulatory and governance decisions. We argue that the inclusion of vulnerable actors depends on their continuous access to and involvement in these decisive spaces for creating and implementing transnational regulations. Our findings advance the understanding of inclusion for addressing challenges facing transnational governance of environmental, equity, and social justice issues.

Keywords: global environmental governance; inclusion; institution building; indigenous peoples; non-state actors; decisive spaces (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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