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 …

legitimacy. The paper considers the seriousness of this legitimacy problem. It starts by revisiting the classic division between … "input" and "output" legitimacy in the context of EMU and finds that, given a lack of will to commit to deeper integration … suggests that the "legitimacy problem" is manageable as long as national governments and parliaments are resolute in dealing …