Local emergence and international developments of conservation trading systems: innovation dynamics and related problems

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dc.contributor.authorMann, Carsten
dc.contributor.authorSimons, Arno
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-27T13:07:49Z
dc.date.available2017-10-27T13:07:49Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionDieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.de
dc.descriptionThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.en
dc.description.abstractConservation trading has developed as a policy instrument for biodiversity protection. This paper traces the emergence, development, and spread of conservation trading, focusing particularly on the formation and activities of an increasingly transnational policy instrument constituency, namely the actor group that has formed around the policy instrument in its support. The development of conservation trading was predominantly guided by a constituency of dominant business-oriented actors, beginning with mitigation measures in the USA and making later connections to international networks with a similar market-driven orientation for environmental protection. By strategically combining agenda-driven research with the mobilization of political support, this constituency helped to establish conservation trading as a widely acknowledged policy solution applicable to various ecological and sociopolitical contexts. Yet, this was achieved, in part, at the cost of neglecting critical issues, such as the recognition of policy alternatives or socioecological or cultural context particularities. Whereas the development of conservation trading is sometimes portrayed as a rational process of neutral policy learning, this process, through its constituency, has developed a life and political momentum of its own, which must be acknowledged when engaging with the design and implementation of better conservation policies. A forward-looking social policy assessment approach is required, which opens up policy design discourses for debate and reflexive engagement. Acknowledging possible shortcomings with a broad range of concerned societal actors can help to assure policy transparency, add specificity, and increase the sound ecological and societal embedding of conservation trading.en
dc.identifier.eissn1469-4387
dc.identifier.issn0376-8929
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/7081
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-6390
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject.ddc570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
dc.subject.ddc333.7 Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
dc.subject.ddc690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk
dc.subject.otherconstituencyen
dc.subject.otherinnovation dynamicsen
dc.subject.otherpolicy instrumenten
dc.subject.othersocial policy assessmenten
dc.titleLocal emergence and international developments of conservation trading systems: innovation dynamics and related problemsen
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1017/s0376892914000381
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleEnvironmental conservation
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameCambridge University Press
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceCambridge
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend334
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart325
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume42
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tub.affiliationZentrale & sonstige Einrichtungen::Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG)de
tub.affiliation.facultyZentrale & sonstige Einrichtungende
tub.affiliation.groupZentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG)de
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlin

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