Management

Environmental and Forest Governance The Role of Discourses and Expertise

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T he governance concept has become a popular framework in polit- ical science during the last decade, especially in the study of pol- icy fields in which political co-ordination problems arise. Governance implies that societal and economic actors have become influential over policy (Peters & Pierre, 1998). Political decisions are being negotiated between these private and state actors in new modes of governance which depart from conventional, hierarchical top-down legislation us- ing regulations and directives (Eberlein & Kerwer, 2002; Böcher, 2008b). The term ‘governance’ today is used in different fields of research on a
local, regional, national, European and global level.
Policy fields concerning environmental questions can be seen as good
examples for the above mentioned increasing co-ordination problems. Consequently, governance issues are currently discussed intensively in environmental as well as in forest policy (Glück et al., 2005; Speth & Haas, 2006; Jordan et al., 2003; Heinelt et al., 2001). In both policy fields new modes of governance have arisen, which can be identified by an increasing use of new governance instruments or coordination mecha- nisms, like for example participative processes or adaptive and iterative policy planning procedures. National Sustainability Strategies, National Forest Programmes and globally relevant certification schemes like FSCare just some examples for the relevance of these ‘new’ governance ap- proaches in environmental and forest policy.
The main argument of this volume is that the rise of new modes of governance in environmental and forest-related political practice high- lights the influence of discourses between societal, economic and state actors as well as the influence of expertise as important sources of knowledge for political actors and their decisions

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Environmental and Forest Governance

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Publisher

: ., 2008

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1-210

Language

English

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978-3-940344-74-8

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NONE

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1st Edtion

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Governance

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