Interaction Management by Partnerships: The Case of Biodiversity and Climate Change

Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Bas Arts and Pieter Glasbergen
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Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers: Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers is Assistant Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her area of expertise is international forest and biodiversity governance. Her recent publications include “Partnerships in Forest Governance,” with Pieter Glasbergen, in Global Environmental Change (2007); “Partnership as Governance Mechanism in Development Cooperation: Intersectoral North-South Partnerships for Marine Biodiversity,” with Bas Arts and Pieter Glasbergen, in Governance and Sustainable Development: Reflections on Theory and Practice, edited by Pieter Glasbergen, Frank Biermann, and Arthur Mol (2007); and “Conservation Partnerships and Biodiversity Governance: Fulfilling Governance Functions through Interaction,” with Pieter Leroy and Pieter Glasbergen, published online in Sustainable Development (2010).
Bas Arts: Bas Arts is Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His research is focused on new modes of governance and the role of non-state actors in environmental politics. His recent publications include “Forests, Discourses, Institutions. A Discursive-Institutional Analysis of Global Forest Governance,” with Marleen Buizer, in Forest Policy and Economics (2009); The Disoriented State; Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and Governance, co-edited with Arnoud Lagendijk and Henk van Houtum (2009); and “Policy and Power—A Conceptual Framework between the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Policy Idioms,” with Jan van Tatenhove, in Policy Sciences (2004).
Pieter Glasbergen: Pieter Glasbergen is Professor of Environmental Studies, Policy and Management at Utrecht University and the Dutch Open University. His main expertise is in governance, planning and policy issues related to sustainable development. His publications include Partnerships, Governance, and Sustainable Development: Reflections on Theory and Practice, co-edited with Frank Biermann and Arthur Mol (2007); Global Action Networks: Agents for Collective Action, in Global Environmental Change (2010); and “Understanding Partnerships for Sustainable Development Analytically; The Ladder of Partnership Activity as a Methodological Tool,” in Environmental Policy and Governance (2010).

Global Environmental Politics, 2011, vol. 11, issue 4, 89-107

Abstract: This article examines the contributions that partnerships make to interaction management. Our conceptualization of interaction management builds on earlier contributions to the literature on regimes and governance. The article focuses on the interactions among the biodiversity and climate change governance systems, since these systems interact intensively on the issues of biofuels and forests (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation—REDD+). The article shows that seven partnerships actively manage the interactions by fulfilling several critical interaction management functions. Their main contributions include creating markets for sustainable biofuels through the development of certification standards and creating markets for “multiple benefit” REDD+. Although the partnerships improve interactions on case-by-case bases, they fail to fundamentally improve existing interactions between the biodiversity and climate change governance systems. Improved meta-governance and public-private interplay are necessary for more effective interaction management and, more generally, the effective governance of sustainable development. © 2011 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2011
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