Identifying the main actors and their positions on international forest policy issues in Argentina

Burns, Sarah Lilian; Gießen, Lukas

doi:10.4067/s0717-92002014000200004

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“…These issues are also observed work in Bangladesh (Rahman & Giessen, 2014) and Argentina (Burns & Giessen, 2014), and strengthen a notion mentioning recent global initiatives on forest spin around issue of forest sustainability, legal timber and REDD+ (McDermott, 2012). Two issues that are more technical as well as potentially contentious, specifically harmonization of wood and forest certification schemes and land use change were not present in public deliberations, but rather remained limited to expert circles.…”

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confidence: 67%

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Wibowo¹,

Gießen²

2015

JSD

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Over the last 20 years a considerable number of international forest-related policies has evolved, collectively referred to as the international forest regime complex. The objectives of this study are to identify the most relevant international forest-related issues discussed in Indonesia as well as the most active actors and their positions on these issues. The empirical methods used include content analysis of Indonesian newspapers, national expert journals, expert mailing lists, and international organizations' position papers. In addition, experts were interviewed to verify and complement the data. As a result, three primary forest-related international issues in Indonesia are identified, namely: timber legality; climate change including REDD initiative; and oil palm plantation and its environmental aspects; and the other four considered as secondary issues, namely: harmonization of wood and forest certification schemes; land use change; forest and species conservation; and deforestation and decentralized forest governance. Public and expert deliberations are found to differ regarding the depth of information as well as their immediate importance for the people and their long-term objectives. The Ministry of Forestry and, surprisingly, the Ministry of Trade are the most active actors in these issues. The main lines of conflict lie between forest utilization interests which are supported by the Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Trade, oil palm and wood industry associations face-to-face with forest conservation interests powered by WWF and Greenpeace.

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Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Wibowo¹,

Gießen²

2015

JSD

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“…This selection occurs differently in different countries (Wibowo and Giessen 2012;Burns and Giessen 2014), leading us to the conclusion that the specific national public media debate, issues, and policies shape the perception of the IFR-C in each country. This diversity of domestic views on the IFR-C, which, itself, promotes a homogeneous view, leads to vertical fragmentation in terms of diverse actors, interests, institutions, and constituencies (Biermann et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Often based on actors' interests, positions are defined as the publically stated preferences toward specific policies (Burns and Giessen 2014;Wibowo and Giessen 2012). Political actors can make active use of public media, expressing their positions in order to gain support for their interests (Kleinschmit and Krott 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Fragmented national public media debate on international forest issues: a case study of Germany

Logmani¹,

Krott²,

Gießen³

2016

Can. J. For. Res.

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Over the past two decades, a number of international forest-related policies have evolved at the global and regional levels. The elements of this International Forest Regime Complex, however, are not equally relevant to all countries. This study analyzes the main actors’ positions in the public media debate in Germany and identifies links to the interests of the actors. First, the study explores the international regime related forest issues. A qualitative content analysis of the public media debate in one high-quality newspaper and in internet sources of relevant state and private actors analyzes the arguments of these actors in the issues. The results show that the debate of international forestry issues is fragmented and conflicting in Germany and that the conflict between use and protection structures in the public media debate is not supported by the data. Drivers of conflicting arguments are mainly associations representing protection, as well as user interests. The ministries avoid confrontation in public. Alliances between public agencies and lobby groups are seldom. Due to the strategic use of the public media, the debate does not indicate very well the existing conflicts about the main issues of the international forest regime in Germany.

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“…Additionally, experts had highlighted this issue as being of current importance in both national and international forest policy affairs, making this a widely discussed key issue in international forest regime literature (e.g., [1,3,7,45]). Singer [46] shows the interaction of international forest regime and national forest-related policies.…”

Section: Sfm Policy: Global and Domestic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A globally discussed SFM issue (consisting of national and international SFM policies) was selected, which had already been identified elsewhere as an important international forest-related issue in Bangladesh [44]. Additionally, experts had highlighted this issue as being of current importance in both national and international forest policy affairs, making this a widely discussed key issue in international forest regime literature (e.g., [1,3,7,45]). Singer [46] shows the interaction of international forest regime and national forest-related policies.…”

Section: Sfm Policy: Global and Domestic Contextmentioning

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International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

2016

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Abstract:The last two decades of forest policy discussions have been dominated by calls for sustainable management of forest resources. Consequently, multiple international and domestic policies, supporting sustainable forest management (SFM), have evolved in numerous jurisdictions. Policies in developing countries often rely on foreign donors' projects, which supplement domestic SFM policy. These policies assign various policy tasks to specific public bureaucracies, who then compete for these very tasks, as well as the related staff and budgets. Therefore, project and policy task assignment greatly influences bureaucratic power. This article analyzes the distributive effects of SFM policy on power (in terms of coercion, incentives and dominant information) among relevant domestic and foreign donor bureaucracies in Bangladesh. Concepts from power theory, bureaucratic politics theory, and concepts of policy and policy process were combined to analyze 121 Bangladeshi SFM policies from 1992-2013, which assign a total of 1012 policy tasks to specific public bureaucracies. Using qualitative content analysis, inferences about power were assigned to specific competing bureaucracies by the totality of SFM policies made. Results identify domestic and foreign bureaucracies whose power distribution benefit most from the SFM policies viz. their competitors. It is concluded that bureaucracies gaining the most power set the limits and directions in designing, implementing and evaluating various elements of any national SFM policies.

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Identifying the main actors and their positions on international forest policy issues in Argentina

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Fragmented national public media debate on international forest issues: a case study of Germany

International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

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