Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00605624" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00605624 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/25:10513743
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901125000164" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901125000164</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104000" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104000</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action
Original language description
Individual actors and actor groups are vital catalysts of transformative change as they are able to initiate interventions that nurture and protect biodiversity. This paper analyses biodiversity-focused practices across the civil, market and public spheres to identify the modes of intervention that actors in Europe utilise when they seek to fight biodiversity loss as part of their every-day work or voluntary activism. Studying how actors locate and engage with biodiversity issues allowed us to develop a typology of intervention modes and to unravel interlinkages between biodiversity governance and bottom-up action in a new manner. The seven modes of intervention identified from the rich qualitative data demonstrate how bottom-up practices vary in terms of the tangible issues they seek to address. Practitioners and activists locate options for change in resource management practices, production and consumption systems, market conditions, and land-use, amongst others. The findings enact a Europe in which cohesion policies, land-use pressures and power lobbies controlling resource management generate resistance and spark innovation. The aspirations to affect policymaking and biodiversity governance vary from one mode to another. In some cases, governance is positioned as a target of bottom-up action. Governance can also be assigned an action-conditioning role or regarded as a critical part of the assemblage that can generate transformative change. The typology also grants visibility to potentially unrecognised modes and mediations along which transformative change is and might be further catalysed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Science & Policy
ISSN
1462-9011
e-ISSN
1873-6416
Volume of the periodical
164
Issue of the periodical within the volume
FEB
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
104000
UT code for WoS article
001401889300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85215077162