Download or read book Public and Stakeholder Involvement in Forest Governance written by Rojin Amani and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) is a popular governance structure in Canada for governments and forest companies to engage public and local stakeholders in forest management planning. These committees are established across Canada to incorporate diverse values in forest decision-making and to move towards Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). However, scholars have noted many problems and shortcomings associated with these committees and suggest there is a need to rethink the FAC approach for involving the public and stakeholder organizations in forest management by developing a new framework for such involvement. This study 1) investigate how various jurisdictions involve the public and stakeholders in forest management decisions, 2) identify eading-edge approaches for involvement in forest management decisions that are more democratic and deliberative, 3) examine ways the public and stakeholders, other than forest product companies and government, can be incentivized to be involved in forest management, 4) develop a framework for involvement in forest decisions in Canada in the context of the tenure approach that captures the findings related to the above objectives and ensures greater public involvement. The study take a qualitative case study approach, utilizing document review, semi-structured interviews, and thematic analysis. Overall, the data reveal that public participation in forest governance in Canada is weak, especially at the strategic and normative levels of decision making. The results of this study suggest a three-level framework for engagement, starting from forest policy and normative decisions at the top, to strategic decisions in the middle, and operational decisions in the bottom for public and stakeholder involvement. Each level requires its own distinct programs for participation, utilizing different tools and techniques, mainly because each needs to involve a different range of participants and address different forestry issues. However, overlap of some of the participants in each process and linkages between participation programs is also highly desirable. The FAC approach is not an appropriate model for getting public input to all these levels of decisions, but with some improvements it may still have utility in relation to forest management decisions that are operational in nature.
Download or read book Participatory Forestry written by Alessandro Paletto and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest and Nature Governance written by Bas Arts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance. In its broadest interpretation, governance is about the many ways in which public and private actors from the state, market and/or civil society govern public issues at multiple scales. This book takes a fresh perspective on the study of forest and nature governance. Departing from ‘practice theory’, and building upon scholars like Giddens, Bourdieu, Reckwitz, Schatzki and Callon, it seeks to move beyond established understandings of institutions, actors, and knowledge. In so doing, it not only presents an innovative conceptual and methodological framework for a practice based approach, but also rich case studies and ethnographies. Finally, this book is about how actors involved in governance talk about and work with trees, forests, biodiversity, wildlife, and so on, while acting upon forest policies, environmental discourses, codes of conduct, or scientific insights.
Download or read book Knowledge for Governance written by Johannes Glückler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, public administration, political science, sociology, and organization studies provide original theoretical discussions along these interdependencies. Moreover, a variety of empirical chapters on governance issues, ranging from regional and national to global scales and covering case studies in Australia, Europe, Latina America, North America and South Africa demonstrate that geography and space are not only important contexts for governance that affect the contingent outcomes of governance blueprints. Governance also creates spaces. It affects the geographical confines as well as the quality of opportunities and constraints that actors enjoy to establish legitimate and sustainable ways of social and environmental co-existence.
Download or read book Stakeholder Perceptions on the Role of Forest Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Development written by Titaningtyas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests are one of the key ecosystems that provide services relied upon by humans for their livelihoods. Sustainable forest management (SFM) provides essential support for achieving sustainable development. However, the endeavours are complicated as it affects and is affected by various factors, stakeholder perceptions amongst others. This thesis argues that understanding stakeholder perceptions of forest ecosystem services can be beneficial in decision making processes to support wider goals of sustainable development. Therefore, obtaining and categorising the stakeholder perceptions of the forest ecosystem services in sustainable development is important for enhancing SFM framework. This thesis began with identifying discourses related to forest ecosystem services in the context of sustainable development and stakeholder participation. Based on these discourses and information, this thesis used Q methodology to understand the stakeholder perceptions on the role of forest ecosystem services in sustainable development. The results elucidated three distinct perspectives and common ground as shown by the consensus perspective. The perspectives align with the worldviews of environmental changes, such as market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens. These perspectives were further categorised according to value orientations, such as the biocentricanthropocentric continuum, to demonstrate possible future policy implications in sustainable forest management. The consensus perspective revealed that PES was not the source of inequalities but rather exacerbated them, and there is a dire need for good forest governance and education from the primary level to broaden the understanding of the general public with regard to forest ecosystem services. Further discussion on the findings revealed the factors that enhance or inhibit the implementation of current sustainable forest management schemes, such as PES, REDD+, and certification. Generally, formal legislative frameworks are seen as an enhancing factor while conflicting stakeholder interests and misconception of the schemes or the scale of the scheme are seen as inhibiting factor. The policy implications from this thesis were presented in clusters of perceptions, which showed the value orientation of the perception as well as the preference of forest management solution.
Download or read book Toward Sustainable Urban Forest Governance written by Christine Suzanne Moskell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities across the United States are planting thousands, if not millions, of trees to remediate the negative environmental impacts of urbanization and to enhance the livability of urban areas. Engaging residents, property owners and other stakeholders in urban forest management can ensure that newly planted trees become established so that the benefits provided by the trees can be sustained in the long-term. Urban forestry practitioners working in the government and civil society sector play an important role in providing opportunities for stakeholders to participate in the planning, planting and maintenance of urban trees. My thesis utilizes mixed methods research to examine the stakeholder engagement approaches of urban forestry practitioners, residents' perceptions of their shared role with government and civil society to maintain urban trees, as well as the institutional, physical and social factors within the urban environment that may influence urban forest stewardship behaviors.
Download or read book Certification s Impacts on Forests Stakeholders and Supply Chains written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People like forests- they have many emotional and cultural attachments to them. They also like forest products - and need increasing quantities of them. But they often don't like, don't understand, and don't trust what comes in between: forest management, which lies at the interface of public services (biodiversity, watersheds, etc) and private goods (timber, food, etc). Certification was developed to independently verify the quality of forest management, to communicate this to market players, and so to improve market benefits for the products of good management. The growing influence of the Forest Stewardship Council is one of the most striking recent developments in forestry. Certification is increasingly common in all continents. But has it actually improved forest management? Has it created sufficient market incentives? Above all, has it enabled trust to develop between stakeholders, so that they can work together better, to build the institutions required for sustainable forest management? This book is the result of two years' study by IIED and collaborators in several countries: it provides evidence for considerable policy and institutional change as a result of certification, and the beginnings of change in forest and market practice.
Download or read book Analysis of Stakeholder Power and Responsibilities in Community Involvement in Forest Management in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Edmund G. C. Barrow and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Engagement in Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Forest Governance and Climate Change written by Emmanuel O. Nuesiri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects, including REDD+ governance. It examines political representation, participation and decentralisation in forest governance, providing insight as to how forest governance arrangements can be responsive to the socio-economic interests of local people and communities who live adjacent to and depend on forests. Global Forest Governance and Climate Change argues that inclusive complementary representation of local communities is required for strong participatory processes and democratic decentralisation of forest governance. Responsiveness to local people’s socio-economic interests in forestry initiatives require paying attention to not just the hosting of participatory meetings and activities, but also to the full cast of appointed, self-authorized, and elected representative agents that stand, speak, and act for local people. This book will be of interest to students and academics across the fields of climate change governance, forestry, development studies, and political economy. It will also be a useful resource for policy makers and practitioners responsible for forestry and climate change initiatives.
Download or read book Designing for engagement written by Larson, A.M. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key messagesMulti-stakeholder forums (MSFs) are increasingly seen as essential for collaboration -- across different levels of government and among multiple constituencies-- due to the growing urgency to address climate change and transform development trajectories.A review of the scholarly literature reveals that more equitable and resilient MSFs require a shift in emphasis away from how to design projects toward designing engagement in a way that addresses a specific situation or context.Designing for engagement combines top-down with bottom-up approaches, starting with a period of research and meetings at upper levels to understand the potential challenges that local project implementers face within the broader context they are encountering.This process is engaged, committed and adaptive, supporting a spirit of co-learning among all actors, building mutual respect and trust over time.This approach has the best chance of resilience in the face of change or challenge, and of leading to equitable outcomes -- and is not fostered by the increasingly short-term nature of donor funding and the emphasis on simple quantitative impact indicators.
Download or read book 05 Multi level and Multi stakeholder Governance of Non timber Forest Products Cases from Ukraine and the Russian Federation written by Marine Elbakidze and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance for non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is about rules, decision-making processes and institutional arrangements that govern production systems from access to the resources, its use and to markets. Compared to other forest products, there are only a few studies on the governance of NTFPs in European post-socialistic countries transitioning from planned to a market economy. The aim of this study is to compare institutional and governance arrangements related to NTFPs using case studies in the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Both countries have a legacy of top-down forest government, state-owned forests, and a rural population with a long history dependent on plant and animal-based NTFPs. To understand institutional frameworks and governance arrangements that deal with different aspects of NTFPs production systems we analysed legal documents dealing with NTFPs in each country and conducted 48 expert interviews with representatives of stakeholders from public, private and civil sectors that were involved in the governance of NTFPs. Governance systems of plant- and animal-based NTFPs in both countries were complex, including institutions at multiple levels. In Russia and Ukraine national level institutions and public organisations at multiple levels are supposed to ensure the sustainable use of NTFPs by defining and controlling their extraction. Global institutions influenced NTFPs governance only in the Russian case study, where forest certification facilitated stakeholders from civil sector to develop instruments that are used by local communities to protect their customary rights to secure access to NTFPs. Decentralization, stakeholder involvement, and dialog are instruments to encourage multi-stakeholder multi-level governance of plant- and animal-based NTFPs.
Download or read book Forestry Conflicts from the 1950 s to 1983 written by Eeva Hellström and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Governance 2 0 written by Tuukka Castrén and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving forest governance and reducing forest crime requires reforms in several fields: legislative framework, public institutions, private sector operations, civil society participation to name a few. This study's emphasis is on simple, low cost tools that will spur the demand and supply of good governance by increasing the engagement of key stakeholders in the process.
Download or read book Participatory Forestry Involvement Information and Science written by Alessandro Paletto and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Participatory Forestry: Involvement, Information and Sciencethat was published in Forests
Download or read book Forest Policy Analysis written by Max Krott and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Max Krott, Director of the Institute of Forest Policy and Nature Conservation at the University of Göttingen, Germany, introduces the most important political players and stakeholders, including the forest owners, the general population, forest workers and employees, forest associations and administration, as well as the media. He illustrates the political and regulatory instruments using examples in current forest policy. Forest Policy Analysis places a special emphasis on the informal processes that are indispensable in understanding practical politics. References made to current English and German-language publications on forest policy studies enable further information to be found with concern to special issues.
Download or read book Public Involvement and the Forest Service written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
