Perspectives on Citizen Engagement for the EU Post-2020 Biodiversity Strategy: An Empirical Study

Autor: Eugenio Morello, Iida-Maria Koskela, Mari Carmen Garcia, Rositsa Yaneva, Marie-Christine Dictor, Liisa Varumo, Tarmo Koppel, Sara Sozzo
Přispěvatelé: Politecnico di Milano [Milan] (POLIMI), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Sociology of scientific knowledge
020209 energy
media_common.quotation_subject
Geography
Planning and Development
TJ807-830
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Empirical research
Political science
environmental policy
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
media_common.cataloged_instance
GE1-350
citizen participation
European union
Set (psychology)
EU post-2020 biodiversity strategy
societal engagement
citizen participation
science-policy-society interface
public perspectives
key messages
environmental policy
Environmental degradation
Legitimacy
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
public perspectives
Citizen participation
Environmental policy
EU post-2020 biodiversity strategy
Public perspectives
Key messages
Science-policy-society interface
Societal engagement
science-policy-society interface
Public relations
key messages
Environmental sciences
eu post-2020 biodiversity strategy
societal engagement
13. Climate action
[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Rhetoric
business
Diversity (politics)
Zdroj: Sustainability
Sustainability, MDPI, 2020, 12 (4), pp.1532. ⟨10.3390/su12041532⟩
Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 4, p 1532 (2020)
Volume 12
Issue 4
ISSN: 2071-1050
Popis: The current European Union biodiversity strategy is failing to reach its targets aimed at halting biodiversity loss by 2020, and eyes are already set at the post-2020 strategy. The European Commission is encouraging the active role of citizens in achieving policy objectives in the coming years. In this paper, we explore ways citizens discuss their priorities regarding biodiversity and abilities to influence environmental problems at individual, collective and policy levels. We also examine how the citizen discussions resonate with scientific environmental priorities and how researchers see the role of citizens in policy processes and harmonising citizen and scientific knowledge. To pursue the citizen voices, an expert working group acting as knowledge brokers, facilitated a series of citizen workshops in seven European locations and a reflective researcher workshop in Belgium. Based on the results, participants identified many concrete and value-related measures to stop environmental degradation. The environmental priorities differed between citizens and scientists, but not irreconcilably
rather, they complemented one another. Both groups stressed environmentally minded attitudes in individuals and policy. Displaying diversity of perspectives was regarded as positive and adding legitimacy. Improving methods for balanced encounters among science and society is central for participation to become more than rhetoric in the EU.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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