are now said to have assumed a mandate to go beyond just biodiversity conservation to improving the welfare of local … protected areas, there is a paradigm shift that seeks to promote a model of biodiversity conservation where livelihood … activities are not just seen as compatible with biodiversity conservation but that it actually drives and facilitates conserv... …

participatory processes in European Water and Biodiversity Governance, which necessarily is multi-level, the picture becomes blurred …

and biodiversity governance", dealing with an assessment of state-ofthe- art European water and biodiversity governance … multi-level governance of water and biodiversity in Europe, were analysed with the support of the framework for analysis and …