This article focuses on development organizations’ construction of representative roles in their work at the environment–development interface and on implications of these constructions for inclusiveness. While much of the past literature on representation has dealt with electoral representation, this article highlights the importance of nonelectoral representation. It follows a constructivist approach and is based on 36 in-depth interviews with the staff of different types of India-based development organizations working on disaster risk management. The article shows how development organizations in India contribute to inclusive development by representing groups that are vulnerable to disaster risk in diverse ways. Showing this diversity and how it is mediated by organizations, the article makes clear that representation is much more complex than literature commonly suggests. This complexity enables organizations to engage with specific dimensions of inclusive development. The article also illustrates how representation by development organizations happens through opportunities found and created through the intertwining of capacity development, service delivery, and advocacy. At the same time, the mediated nature of representation, and its embeddedness in a wide set of relations, makes representation by development organizations indirect and questionable in ways beyond the commonly understood dominance of powerful nongovernmental organizations.

本文重点关注发展组织在环境与发展之间的工作中代表角色的构建，以及这些构建对包容性的影响。尽管过去有关代表制的许多文献都涉及选举代表制，但本文强调了非选举制代表制的重要性。它遵循建构主义的方法，基于对从事灾害风险管理的印度不同类型的发展组织的工作人员进行的36次深度访谈。这篇文章展示了印度的发展组织如何通过以各种方式代表易受灾害风险影响的群体来为包容性发展做出贡献。显示这种多样性以及组织如何进行调解，文章清楚地表明，表示形式比文献通常所建议的要复杂得多。这种复杂性使组织能够参与包容性开发的特定方面。本文还说明了开发组织如何通过能力开发，服务交付和倡导的交织发现和创造的机会来实现代表。同时，代表权的中介性质及其在各种关系中的嵌入性，使发展组织的代表权以间接的方式受到质疑，其作用超出了强大的非政府组织通常所理解的主导地位。本文还说明了开发组织如何通过能力开发，服务交付和倡导的交织发现和创造的机会来实现代表。同时，代表权的中介性质及其在各种关系中的嵌入性，使发展组织的代表权以间接的方式受到质疑，其作用超出了强大的非政府组织通常所理解的主导地位。本文还说明了开发组织如何通过能力开发，服务交付和倡导的交织发现和创造的机会来实现代表。同时，代表权的中介性质及其在各种关系中的嵌入性，使发展组织的代表权以间接的方式受到质疑，其作用超出了强大的非政府组织通常所理解的主导地位。