Do forest policy actors learn through forward-thinking? Conflict and cooperation relating to the past, present and futures of sustainable forest management in Germany

Sotirov, Metodi; Blum, Mareike; Storch, Sabine; Selter, Andy; Schraml, Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.11.011

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“…All of the above also supports previous findings in the forest policy literature regarding the diversity of policy and socio-economic interests and beliefs in the European multi-level system of forest governance [46,57,58].…”

Section: Perceived Actor-oriented Factors Constraining Expert-based Fsupporting

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Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

Baycheva-Merger

Sotirov

Holmgren

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Forests

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Adequate and accessible expert-based forest information has become increasingly in demand for effective decisions and informed policies in the forest and forest-related sectors in Europe. Such accessibility requires a collaborative environment and constant information exchange between various actors at different levels and across sectors. However, information exchange in complex policy environments is challenging, and is often constrained by various institutional, actor-oriented, and technical factors. In forest policy research, no study has yet attempted to simultaneously account for these multiple factors influencing expert-based forest information exchange. By employing a policy analysis from an actor-centred institutionalist perspective, this paper aims to provide an overview of the most salient institutional and actor-oriented factors that are perceived as constraining forest information exchange at the national level across European countries. We employ an exploratory research approach, and utilise both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse our data. The data was collected through a semi-structured survey targeted at forest and forest-related composite actors in 21 European countries. The results revealed that expert-based forest information exchange is constrained by a number of compound and closely interlinked institutional and actor-oriented factors, reflecting the complex interplay of institutions and actors at the national level. The most salient institutional factors that stand out include restrictive or ambiguous data protection policies, inter-organisational information arrangements, different organisational cultures, and a lack of incentives. Forest information exchange becomes even more complex when actors are confronted with actor-oriented factors such as issues of distrust, diverging preferences and perceptions, intellectual property rights, and technical capabilities. We conclude that expert-based forest information exchange is a complex and challenging task. It is driven by actors' preferences/interests, perceptions, and capabilities, and is shaped by formal rules and social norms.

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Section: Perceived Actor-oriented Factors Constraining Expert-based Fsupporting

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Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

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Sotirov

Holmgren

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“…In addition to deep dives about the nature of the problem in question, stakeholder learning dialogues will need to structure learning deliberations that help participants decide how to anticipate, and adjudicate, multiple synergistic and countervailing effects behind whatever course of action they choose. In this regard it is essential that policy learning dialogues are structured to render implicit biases in problem framing explicit (Bryson, 2004, p. 37;Sotirov, Blum et al, 2017). Doing so will make explicit deliberations about what type of (biased) framing is most appropriate for the problem definition at hand (Bryson et al, 2014, p. 450).…”

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“…Arguably no greater scientific attention has been placed on these questions than by those scholars who seek to understand the conditions through which stakeholder learning dialogues influence policy development (Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith, 1993), including their effects on producing marginal versus transformative policy change (Bennett & Howlett, 1992;Hall, 1993). The results have been promising, producing critical insights about how policy learning dialogues might be structured to help domestic public policy makers and practitioners identify strategies for nurturing durable goal-oriented impacts over time (Bryson, 2004;Dunlop & Radaelli, 2011;Heikkila & Gerlak, 2013;Radaelli, 2009;Rietig & Perkins, 2018;Sotirov, Blum, Storch, Selter, & Schraml, 2017).…”

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Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance

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A growing scholarship on multistakeholder learning dialogues suggests the importance of closely managing learning processes to help stakeholders anticipate which policies are likely to be effective. Much less work has focused on how to manage effective transnational multistakeholder learning dialogues, many of which aim to help address critical global environmental and social problems such as climate change or biodiversity loss. They face three central challenges. First, they rarely shape policies and behaviors directly, but work to 'nudge' or 'tip the scales' in domestic settings. Second, they run the risk of generating 'compromise' approaches incapable of ameliorating the original problem definition for which the dialogue was created. Third, they run the risk of being overly influenced, or captured, by powerful interests whose rationale for participating is to shift problem definitions or narrow instrument choices to those innocuous to their organizational or individual interests. Drawing on policy learning scholarship, we identify a six-stage learning process for anticipating effectiveness designed to minimize these risks while simultaneously fostering innovative approaches for meaningful and longlasting problem solving: Problem definition assessments; Problem framing; Developing coalition membership; Causal framework development; Scoping exercises; Knowledge institutionalization. We also identify six management techniques within each process for engaging transnational dialogues around problem solving. We show that doing so almost always requires anticipating multiplestep causal pathways through which influence of transnational and/or international actors and institutions might occur.

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“…Trata-se de uma prática ecológica que mantém a integridade, produtividade, resiliência e biodiversidade do ecossistema florestal. A sustentabilidade ecológica assegura a continuação da função dos ecossistemas, que são considerados como sistema ecológico de apoio à vida (KOTWAL et al, 2008;REMPEL et al, 2016).O manejo deve integrar a produção de madeira, conservação da biodiversidade, proteção do solo e da água, sequestro de carbono recreação, produtos florestais não madeireiros e outras terras florestais (SOTIROV et al, 2017). Há uma evidente tendência global favorável ao manejo florestal sustentado que poderá ajudar a garantir que as florestas continuem a ser uma parte valorizada do nosso futuro comum (MACDICKEN et al, 2015).…”

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Planejamento da exploração florestal: um estudo na amazônia brasileira

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Pereira

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Florestal tem a finalidade de conseguir que as florestas forneçam continuamente benefícios econômicos, ecológicos e sociais, mediante um planejamento para o aproveitamento dos recursos madeireiros e não madeireiros. Neste sentido, surgem cada vez mais estudos que empenham em formas de planejar a exploração florestal de maneira Palavras-chaves: Manejo Florestal Sustentável. Sustentabilidade. Estratificação de Floresta Tropical. Planejamento Florestal. Análise Multivariada.

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Do forest policy actors learn through forward-thinking? Conflict and cooperation relating to the past, present and futures of sustainable forest management in Germany

Cited by 48 publications

References 30 publications

Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance

Planejamento da exploração florestal: um estudo na amazônia brasileira

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