When international impulses hit home: The role of domestic policy subsystem configurations in explaining different types of sustainability strategies

An obituary for national forest programmes? Analyzing and learning from the strategic use of “new modes of governance” in Germany and Bulgaria

“…It would thus be interesting to discuss this recent shift in the manner in which forest policy is made within a larger international context. In doing this, Hogl et al (2009) findings that the implementation of similar international sustainability strategies are largely influenced by the different properties of domestic policy subsystems in terms of actor networks and idea sets that lead to different policy outputs at the national level must be taken into account.…”

“…While Carbone and Savelli (2009) discuss Italy's experience with the parallel development of a NFP and multiple regional plans as well as the interplay between forestry research and forest administration, another study analyses the influence of various features of domestic policy networks on the implementation of international sustainability strategies, including a NFP-process at the national level in Austria (Hogl et al, 2009). Moreover, recent studies question the constructed picture of NFPs as an instrument to achieve policy change: Hogl et al, 2009 note at least that the Austrian Forest Dialogue has become a "processoriented strategy" in which changes are manifested in the process of broadening the formally closed forest policy network, both in terms of new actors and new process principles, while they could not find evidence for major changes in terms of policy goals and instruments (Hogl et al, 2009). Kouplevatskaya (2006), however, shows how the development of participatory processes in France and Kyrgyzstan's forest policies first redefine the power of major stakeholders and public authorities, eventually resulting in the consolidation of actors who were already powerful before the process started.…”

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

“…This suggests that the competition of public bureaucracies and their societal clientele (i.e. ministries, see Peters, 2010;Rayner et al, 2001;Hogl et al, 2009;Giessen 2010a;and Giessen & Krott, 2009;Krott & Hasanagas, 2006) is an important driver of forest-related issues and politics in Indonesia. Their contribution to the issues indicates a relatively weak coalition on forest protection, whereas forest utilizations and trade interests seem to be rather strong.…”

“…In these cases, the Ministries of Forestry as well as the Ministry of Trade work in similar directions, primarily in order to get Indonesian natural products into EU and the US markets (Kementerian Kehutanan, 2012a;Nurrochmat et al, 2014;Cashore & Stone, 2012;Iben et al, 2014). This is surprising as the theory of bureaucratic politics suggest only a single actor has dominant role in a particular sector (Peters, 2010) and intersection of responsibilities among state bureaucracies will create conflict of interests and unproductive contestation (Sahide & Giessen, 2015;similar Ongolo, 2015;Hogl et al, 2009). Future studies must scrutinize this relationship not based on discursive contributions, but on on-going politics.…”

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

“…Krott et al [62] stated that the stronger power is exercised through day-to-day implementations at the local level in the forest. According to Peters (2010) as cited by Wibowo and Giessen [16], only a single actor has a dominant role in a particular sector, and intersection of responsibilities among state bureaucracies will create conflict of interests and unproductive contestation [105][106][107]. For example, the ADB [95] reported that the conflict between the forest ministry and department created over the dissatisfaction with the department during the final project design for the "Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project-1999."…”