The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation

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Authors

  • Lou Lécuyer
  • Estelle V. Balian
  • J. R.A. Butler
  • Cécile Barnaud
  • Simon Calla
  • Bruno Locatelli
  • Jens Newig
  • Jethro Pettit
  • Diana Pound
  • Fabien F. Quétier
  • Valéria Salvatori
  • Yorck Von Korff
  • Juliette Claire Young

Biodiversity conservation are increasingly focused on involving stakeholder engagement, making power a key concept in understanding its success and failure. Power is often conceptualized as unidimensional and coercive, but a multidimensional view better reflects structural power, as well as its productive and enabling potential. This paper investigates how different dimensions of power in participatory processes affect biodiversity conservation objectives. Six case studies from Europe and Asia-Pacific were analysed using an adapted framework that explores the interlinkages between ‘power over’ and ‘transformative power’, looking at the scale and space in which power occurs, and analysing in which arenas of power and under which form of expression it appears. The framework distinguishes between the different ways to exert influence (‘power to’, ‘power with’, ‘power within’, ‘power for’), as well as the dynamics of domination and resistance observed in decision-making (visible power), hidden biases and exclusionary experiences (hidden power), and actions that either reinforce or resist social norms and beliefs (invisible and systematic power). Focusing on biodiversity, the different arenas of power allow us to go deeper than the surface issues and conflicting interests of diverse participants, regarding for example wildlife, to question underlying power dynamics. Different expressions of power, more specifically the ‘power for’ dimension, allow an understanding of how participants integrate nature and biodiversity in their aspirations. The different levels of power also highlight the need to focus not only on the local level but to analyse how participatory processes are embedded in national, or even international governance in a globalized world. Finally, they shed light on two challenges in participatory processes regarding biodiversity: the representation of non-human interests (designated here as ‘beyond-human’ voices), and the integration of multiple forms of knowledge systems. Synthesis and applications: Integrating power into biodiversity issues involves deconstructing normalized discourses that focus solely on certain more powerful human agents, their interests and scientific knowledge, and creating new narratives, knowledge and embodied practice of learning and action to encompass a wider diversity of voices and views. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftPeople and Nature
Jahrgang6
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)1407-1420
Anzahl der Seiten14
ISSN2575-8314
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 08.2024

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