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SUMMARY:IPBES between Theory and Practice: How weighted concepts travel - 
 Alice Vadrot
DTSTART:20161025T120000Z
DTEND:20161025T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Chris Sandbrook
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this paper is twofold: Firstly\, it wishes to explo
 re the emergence of the term “biocultural diversity” and its political
  implications in international biodiversity politics and policies. Secondl
 y\, by doing so\, it aims to understand the particularities of internation
 al science-policy interfacing bodies in contemporary environmental politic
 s through an exploration of the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversit
 y and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and its fourth Plenary held in February 2
 016. Our analysis starts with the observation that the use of particular t
 erms in multilateral negotiations activates a particular constellation of 
 reactions from the participants present\, reigniting past struggles and co
 ntestations. By analysing the way in which the term “biocultural diversi
 ty” structured the reactions of delegates negotiating the Summary for Po
 licy Makers (SPM) of the pollination assessment of the IPBES\, we want to 
 explore how particular semi-scientific terms in international environmenta
 l governance de-stabilise and re-stabilise the distribution of argumentati
 ve power in particular ways. In order to theoretically ground this observa
 tion\, we introduce the notion of “weighted concepts”\, which the pape
 r further elaborates as a methodological innovation in Global Environmenta
 l Policy.
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