Governance of the forest restitution process in Romania: An application of the DPSIR model

Scriban, Ramona Elena; Nichiforel, Liviu; Bouriaud, Laura; Bărnoaiea, Ionuț; Coșofreț, Cosmin; Barbu, C.

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.10.018

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“…The social dimension of potential conflicts between the private forest owners and the pubic authority is better rendered by the Pareto graph from Figure 3, which shows that properties smaller than 10 ha stand for close to 99% of the individual owners, who possess about 40% of the private woodland. Forest sustainability on less than 10 hectares is even more elusive if someone would ever try to convince 346,015 individuals to pay for a management plan whose technical provisions befit large public forests [40,41]. The social dimension of potential conflicts between the private forest owners and the pubic authority is better rendered by the Pareto graph from Figure 3, which shows that properties smaller than 10 ha stand for close to 99% of the individual owners, who possess about 40% of the private woodland.…”

Section: Romanian Constitutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Romanian Constitutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Did Forestland Restitution Facilitate Institutional Amnesia? Some Evidence from Romanian Forest Policy

Drăgoi

Toza

2019

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This paper shows how the slow process of forestland restitution, which is unfolding in Romania since 1991 has eroded the threads of sustainable forest management by an insidious institutional amnesia (IA). The four symptoms of this harmful process (frequent reorganization, transition from paperwork to electronic media, fewer people motivated to join public services, and popularity of radical changes) were analyzed from the legal standing point as well as from practitioners' perspective. After having described the legal process and the relative dependencies between laws and government ordinances we also showed that the three laws on forestland restoration (three fully operational laws and two bills submitted in 2019, one year before general elections) were produced by unintended policy arrangements. The legal loopholes of forestland restitution were described in details as well as the challenges brought about by nature conservation policy (Natura 2000 management plans v traditional forest planning), and the overwhelming bureaucratic burden developed to deter illegal logging, instead of fully implementing a modern system of forest watching based on volunteering. However, the main cause of IA is institutional unsteadiness which was inherited from the communist regime, and cannot be alleviated unless more involvement of professional foresters in politics.

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Section: Romanian Constitutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Romanian Constitutionmentioning

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Did Forestland Restitution Facilitate Institutional Amnesia? Some Evidence from Romanian Forest Policy

Drăgoi

Toza

2019

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“…More surprisingly, in the case of sustainable forest management criteria and indicators, few ex-post assessment of FOREST EUROPE’s indicators has been attempted to date, except locally and based on local stakeholders involvement (e.g. Vacik et al, 2007, Scriban et al, 2019).…”

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With great power comes great responsibility: an analysis of sustainable forest management quantitative indicators in the DPSIR framework

Paillet¹,

Campagnaro

Burrascano

et al. 2021

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The monitoring of environmental policies in Europe has taken place since the 1980s and still remains a challenge for decision- and policy-making. For forests, it is concretized through the publication of a State Of Europe's Forests every five years, the last report just been released. However, the process lacks a clear analytical framework and appears limited to orient and truly assess sustainable management of European forests. We classified the 34 quantitative sustainable forest management indicators in the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework to analyse gaps in the process. In addition, we classified biodiversity-related indicators in the simpler Pressure-State-Response (PSR) framework. We showed that most of the sustainable forest management indicators assess the state of European forests, but almost half could be classified in another DPSIR category. For biodiversity, most indicators describe pressures, while direct taxonomic state indicators are very few. Our expert-based classification show that sustainable forest management indicators are unbalanced regarding the DPSIR framework. However, completing this framework with other indicators would help to have a better view and more relevant tools for decision-making. The results for biodiversity were comparable, but we showed that some indicators from other criteria than the one dedicated to biodiversity could also help understanding threats and actions concerning it. Such classification helps in the decision process, but is not sufficient to fully support policy initiative. In particular, the next step would be to better understand the links between DPSIR and PSR categories.

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“…As such, governmental support has promoted development of forestland markets in Uganda [33] and Ethiopia [34,35]; however, land speculation is active in both countries and requires further procurement controls. In Romania, large areas of forestland have shifted from public to private ownership [36], promoting forestland market competition [37,38]. Along with the furthering of market-oriented economic development, forestland markets in these countries will need to embrace significant reforms that better understand the varying actors and perceptive roles that support local livelihoods-via subsistence, commercial, and ecological contributions [25].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Farmers’ Intentions to Lease Forestland: Evidence from Rural China

Xiao-yong

Cirella

Wen

et al. 2020

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In the last decade, despite considerable research developed for the forestland leasing market, little has been published in terms of econometric results on determinants of intentions and behaviors of Chinese farmers. With respect to leasing forestland, this study uses a Bayesian logit model to examine the factors that influence farmers' intentions, using household data collected in one county in 2017. The results show that farmers' past experience of leasing forestlands have significant impacts on their leasing intentions. Once farmers participated in leasing in or leasing out forestland in the last five years, it was shown that they will have stronger intentions of doing so in the future. Farmers will neither lease in or out forestland if the leasing profits are less than the profits originated from forestland management. As such, household head age, household population, proportion of income from nonfarm sources to total income, and security of rights to forestland use are significant factors in influencing farmers' decisions on leasing in forestland. On the other hand, household head age and educational level, proportion of income from nonfarm sources to total income, and importance of forestland in terms of inheritance are significant factors in influencing farmers' decisions on leasing it out. Results imply that institutional and market factors, which have impacts on transaction costs, are important for farmers in making decisions on forestland leases. Policy implications to reduce institutional intervention are discussed.

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Governance of the forest restitution process in Romania: An application of the DPSIR model

Cited by 30 publications

References 34 publications

Did Forestland Restitution Facilitate Institutional Amnesia? Some Evidence from Romanian Forest Policy

Did Forestland Restitution Facilitate Institutional Amnesia? Some Evidence from Romanian Forest Policy

With great power comes great responsibility: an analysis of sustainable forest management quantitative indicators in the DPSIR framework

Farmers’ Intentions to Lease Forestland: Evidence from Rural China

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