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 … elements in new modes of environmental multi-level governance. The cases described showed a high degree of variability in …

-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 … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …