-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and …

prime linkage between accountability and transparency in the building of private, public and global governance. …This paper argues that accountability in organizations should not be constrained to responsibilities alone, but it must … also comprise the previous commitments without which responsibilities remain meaningless. It also asserts that transparency …