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Compliance is one of the central, but often overlooked challenges that actors face as they seek to devise and implement environmental policies. Therefore this paper draws upon multiple models of rule compliance to assess the factors influencing compliance in the high forest zone of Ghana....
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This paper investigates if and how the establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forest reserves can conserve natural forests in Uganda. It uses difference-in-difference and decomposition analyses on household data collected from intervention and control villages in the...
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Terai. This paper analyses the multiple dimensions of conflicts in Terai forestry policy and practice using a multilevel … (ranging from the global level to households). At one pole, Terai forestry can be understood in terms of conflicts of interest … conflict in Terai forestry: state versus community; inter-community (between various groups); and intra-community conflicts …
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Negotiating a policy change involves formation of coalitions of actors in a particular policy subsystem with substantial mobilisation of resources to deploy strategic actions to direct the outcome of the process to a certain interest. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been demonstrated...
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Native beekeeping (NBK), a practice that links forest communities to forest ecosystems, has been practiced in Korea since ancient time. This paper aims to inventory traditional forest knowledge (TFK) regarding NBK, using historical records and contemporary interviews with beekeepers. It examines...
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Innovations in the forest sector may be very different in origin, objectives, context and content. This paper analyses several institutional innovations with the capacity to create considerable changes in the rules of the game of forest policy making in Austria, Scotland and France. All cases...
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The impact of analytical research on the political process is analyzed here from the view point of stakeholders in forest policy. The interests and actions of stakeholders are described based on political theory and are illustrated using examples from 25years of research in forest policy and...
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Theories constitute an important part of science and contribute to its advancement. As a consequence of the variety of scientific approaches available, students of forest policy can choose between three alternatives: (i) relying on and applying an existing theory, (ii) attempting to combine...
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Climate change may affect forest management not only through predicted ecological impacts on forests, but also by reframing perspectives on land use issues, and thus changing forest policies. In this paper, forest policy making in the light of climate change is analyzed in two German Laender,...
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We study reforms and institutional changes in Russian forestry from the time of Peter the Great to the present. Using … Russian forestry and how post-Soviet developments echo the reform patterns of previous centuries. The outcomes of numerous …, mostly unsuccessful, forestry initiatives have been shaped not only by the common perception of forests as widely available …
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