Acceptance of sticks, carrots and sermons as policy instruments for directing private forest management

Serbruyns, Inge; Luyssaert, Sebastiaan

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2005.06.012

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“…Policy bodies that attempt to involve non-industrial private forest owners in their policies have financial instruments (so-called carrots), regulative instruments (sticks), and informational instruments (sermons) at their disposal (Serbruyns and Luyssaert 2006). Sermons are common instruments which encourage and help forest-owner families to manage their forests.…”

Section: Challenge Of Effective Information Dissemination Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of sermon policy instruments: forest management planning practices applying the activity theory approach

Hokajärvi¹,

Hujala²,

Leskinen³

et al. 2009

Silva Fenn.

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Recent and ongoing societal changes have brought about a need to foster multiple-use forestry and to strengthen customer orientation in family forestry outreach. The study assesses how forest management planning in family forest holdings could be developed to tackle these challenges. The approach introduces a new way of evaluating the effectiveness of information-and communication-based policy instruments. Here, the cultural-historical activity theory is applied in studying the interwoven practices of present-day planning and the associated advisory services targeted at landowners. The data, comprising semi-structured in-depth interviews with 19 professional planners, were qualitatively examined, and a forest management planning activity model was constructed with the emphasis placed on the inherent contradictions of planning work. As the main contradiction, the forest and the forest owner compete as objects. The aims of making the forest productive and advising the landowners towards an increased activeness motivate forest management planning but the planners feel that they lack the opportunity to respond to the needs of the landowner. A wood-productionemphasizing interpretation of the benefits to the national economy frustrates the policy goal of genuinely promoting the goals of multiple-use forestry. The conclusion drawn is that the actors engaged in forest management planning can reveal the needs for change by discussing their opinions and practical innovations. This can be done with the aid of facilitation by e.g. researchers oriented to developmental work study.

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Section: Challenge Of Effective Information Dissemination Policymentioning

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Effectiveness of sermon policy instruments: forest management planning practices applying the activity theory approach

Hokajärvi¹,

Hujala²,

Leskinen³

et al. 2009

Silva Fenn.

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“…Firstly, the failure of the transition to sustainable forest management cannot be explained by an insufficient level of economic incentives such as cost-share policies (Serbruyns and Luyssaert 2006). This is in sharp contrast to the failure of the Flemish afforestation policy on farm lands, where the level of economic incentives is clearly insufficient for compensating for the lost revenue (Van Gossum et al 2008).…”

Section: Forest Groups In Flanders and The Problem Of Social Learningmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Learning as a Basis for Cooperative Small-Scale Forest Management

Dedeurwaerdere

2009

Small-scale Forestry

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This paper analyses the governance characteristics of an innovative policy instrument for sustainable forest management in Flanders, namely a mechanism based on social learning and collaborative planning within joint forest management organizations. These organizations have been successful in involving non-industrial private forest owners in managing the transition towards sustainable management in small-scale forestry. Why was this innovative scheme successful? And what are its shortcomings and possible limitations? The hypothesis developed in this paper is that the success of the forest groups has been made possible by the explicit organization of a process of social learning, leading to change in the beliefs and the social norms of forest owners and users. Based on the analysis of this case of cooperative forestry, and on theoretical insights from governance theory, the contribution to fostering social learning from three distinct mechanisms is established, these being (1) the recourse to sustainability criteria and indicators as an open-ended learning device, (2) the experimentation with disruptive action strategies to put new beliefs into practice, and (3) the building of new forms of social cooperation around these new beliefs and practices.

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“…Motivation, values and perceptions of forest owners classified into different categories, would enrich the knowledge about this social group and its influence on forest management. One empirical study that was based on six motivations and supplemented with nine attitudes resulted in four well-defined owner groups: materialistic, satisfied recreational, dissatisfied recreational and profit-seeking owners (Serbruyns and Luyssaert, 2006), as well as other studies classify them according to production and consumption objectives (Ní Dhubháin, 2007). Hence urbanization is breaking the links between humans and forests (Dominguez, 2008;Ziegenspeck et al, 2004)).…”

Section: Grassroots Tacticsmentioning

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Comparative analysis on the communication strategies of the forest owners' associations in Europe

Fabra-Crespo

Rojas-Briales

2015

Forest Policy and Economics

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This research reports a comparative analysis of the communication strategy that forest owners' associations across Europe use to influence society on one side and the decision-makers on the other, in order to fulfill forest owners' interests. 60% of Europe's forests are privately owned by an estimated number of 16 million forest owners, who are represented by forest owners associations. One of its main functions is to influence the public perceptions on forests and forestry. In this article it is analyzed how a specific forestry stakeholder fixes its strategies to communicate with and lobby society in order to get acceptability for their proposals/demands. Open-end surveys have been used as a source of information in 2006 and repeated in 2012. Besides of the comparison among countries, a comparison along the time has been also performed. The whole communication frame is analyzed, considering the objectives, the structure, the messages, the channels, and the evaluation. The main conclusions that arise are: first, the temporary comparison (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) results into an improvement in several issues; second, there is room for improvement of professionalization of communication in forest owners' associations in Europe; third, social research into public perception of forestry might help to define communication strategies.

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Acceptance of sticks, carrots and sermons as policy instruments for directing private forest management

Cited by 81 publications

References 20 publications

Effectiveness of sermon policy instruments: forest management planning practices applying the activity theory approach

Effectiveness of sermon policy instruments: forest management planning practices applying the activity theory approach

Social Learning as a Basis for Cooperative Small-Scale Forest Management

Comparative analysis on the communication strategies of the forest owners' associations in Europe

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