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11 - Public–private partnerships and the governance of ecosystem services

from Part V - Governing ecosystem services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

By
Ayşem Mert  and
Philipp Pattberg
Edited by
Jetske A. Bouma  and
Pieter J. H. van Beukering
Ayşem Mert
Affiliation:
University of Duisburg-Essen
Philipp Pattberg
Affiliation:
VU University Amsterdam
Jetske A. Bouma
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
Pieter J. H. van Beukering
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Summary

Introduction

After the previous chapters surveyed a wide array of policy instruments for governing ecosystem services at the global level, this chapter scrutinizes one specific approach to governing ecosystem services, public–private partnerships (PPPs) for sustainable development. PPPs have become a highly visible and much discussed element of global sustainability governance. Especially since the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), transnational PPPs have multiplied, now counting well above 300 partnerships in the register maintained by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. In policy and academic debates alike, partnerships are promoted as a solution to deadlocked intergovernmental negotiations, to ineffective treaties and overly bureaucratic international organizations, to power-based state policies, corrupt elites, and many other real or perceived current problems of global governance. However, systematic evidence of the impacts of PPPs is scarce and the broader consequences of outsourcing and privatizing environmental governance are not well understood. This chapter draws on a multi-year research project on the emergence and effectiveness of PPPs for sustainable development that utilizes a large-N database to understand the role and relevance of PPPs in contemporary global environmental governance.

In addition to providing a general assessment of partnerships, this chapter also presents an analysis of the subset of partnerships most closely related to governing ecosystem services.

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Ecosystem Services
From Concept to Practice
 , pp. 230 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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