International forest and environmental governance processes assume that ideas and concepts surrounding biodiversity at the international level will be made accessible at a national level so that they can be easily adopted by national forest and environmental policy arenas. One prerequisite for a...

This article analyses the representation of selected countries (EU-27 and the five influential “forest states”) to international forest-related negotiations by national utilitarian vis-à-vis conservation-oriented ministerial bureaucracies. It is hypothesised that due to the bureaucracies'...

With the book publication “Forest and Nature Governance — A practice based approach” (Arts et al., 2013, Eds.) the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands demonstrates its high aspirations of developing a new research approach. This article...

Community forestry has been described as a decentralised mode of forest governance that only partly lives up to its expectations. The power of important actors to misuse the community forestry approach for their self-interests has been reported as a major obstacle to comprehensive success....

Basierend auf existierenden eigenen Forschungsergebnissen stellt der Beitrag die These auf, dass regionalisierte und kooperative Politikansatze einen potentiellen Nutzen fur die Forstwirtschaft bergen, der uber ein konventionelles Verstandnis hinaus geht. Jedoch wird angenommen, dass dieser...