A practice based approach to forest governance

Arts, B.J.M.; Behagel, Jelle; Turnhout, Esther; Koning, Jessica de; Bommel, Séverine van

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2014.04.001

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“…Although Chinese forest policy has been shifting from command‐and‐control to decentralized‐marketization‐based forest governance (Chhatre & Agrawal , Arts & Visseren‐Hamakers , Arts et al . ) to improve local volunteerism and autonomy in policy implementation (He ), the PFPs have been criticized for being top‐down, using inflexible solutions and simplifying social diversity (He & Lang ). Additionally, differences in local‐central government interactions caused households involved in PFPs in the different regions to be subjected to different policies, payment removals and reductions (Komarek et al .…”

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Impacts of large‐scale forest restoration on socioeconomic status and local livelihoods: what we know and do not know

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Forests are sources of wood, non-timber forest products and ecosystems services and goods that benefit society as a whole, and are especially important to rural livelihoods. Forest landscape restoration (FLR) has been proposed as a way to counteract deforestation and reconcile the production of ecosystem services and goods with conservation and development goals. But limited evidence indicates how large-scale forest restoration could contribute to improving local livelihoods. Here, we present a conceptual framework to analyze the effects of large-scale restoration on local livelihoods, and use it to review the scientific literature and reduce this knowledge gap. Most of the literature referred to case studies (89%), largely concentrated in China (49%). The main theme explored was income, followed by livelihoods diversification, off-farm employment opportunities, poverty reduction, equity and the provision of timber and energy as ecosystem services. Nearly 60 percent of the papers discussed the importance of governance systems to socioeconomic outcomes. The reforestation/restoration programs and policies investigated in the studies had mixed socioeconomic effects on local livelihoods depending on other variables, such as availability of off-farm jobs, household characteristics, land productivity, land tenure, and markets for forest products and ecosystem services. We conclude that the effects of large-scale restoration initiatives on local livelihoods may vary due to several factors and is still not clear for many situations; therefore, monitoring over time with clear indicators is needed.Abstract in Portuguese is available with online material.

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Impacts of large‐scale forest restoration on socioeconomic status and local livelihoods: what we know and do not know

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“…As a result, more stakeholders at different scales became involved in the management of farmer-managed public goods, making the governance of public goods a complex endeavour and prone to failure (Jessop, 2000(Jessop, , 2002. This is visible in other areas as well such as forest conservation (Arts, Behagel, Turnhout, Koning, & Bommel, 2014).…”

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confidence: 92%

Critical success factors for governing farmer-managed public goods in rural areas in the Netherlands

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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Multifunctional land use has become a widely supported pathway for Europe's countryside. Brussels and the national governments stimulate farmers to integrate primary production with non-agricultural practices from which they can also benefit. In favour of this development different stakeholders are encouraged to collaborate to produce the so-called farmer-managed public goods. This paper explores critical success factors for the production and maintenance of these public goods. In two Dutch case study regions we show a chronology of major events from 1975 leading to a shift from primary agricultural production towards a successful multifunctional land use. We evaluated which critical success factors crucial for managing public goods manifest themselves in our case study regions. Besides six critical success factors described in literature (Property rights, Asymmetric information, Administrative complexity, Governance, Time lags and Market structure) four other factors appear to be crucial in governing farmer-managed public goods:(1) establishing a system of rewards; (2) a mix of governance forms; (3) visionary leadership with networks in both the public and the private sectors and (4) time for new ideas to mature and to build commitment among the actors.

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“…As the following subsections-and the individual papers in this special issue-show in greater detail, it can refer to (i) the economic (cost)effectiveness of policies; (ii) multi-criteria achievements; or (iii) evaluation models based on the notions of output, outcome, and impact. Alternative ways of evaluating performance, presented in the last two subsections below, assess how (iv) impacts are 'performed' or 'staged' by stakeholders, independently of what's happening on the ground, or how (v) certain policy discourses 'produce' certain implementation and evaluation practices, and not others, which is referred to as 'performativity' [25].…”

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confidence: 99%