'Measurementality' in biodiversity governance: Knowledge, transparency, and the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ipbes)

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 581-597

  Turnhout, Esther ^a   Neves, Katja ^b   De Lijster, Elisa ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global environmental governance; Governmentality; Information; Knowledge; Neoliberal conservation; New public management; Science policy interface; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900992108     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4629     Document Type: Article

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