Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi …-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and …

argues that in the EU's multi-level system, the legitimacy of the European level of governance is systematically influenced … by the legitimacy of the EU Member States. Insights into such legitimacy relationships - and different logics of their … institutional design can actually affect the citizens' empirical legitimacy evaluations of the EU, since these are often …

legitimacy. Moreover, present efforts by EMU governments to “rescue the euro” will do little to correct the economic imbalances …