Forests: A Multi-sectoral and Multi-level Approach to Sustainable Forest Management

Pirlot, Pauline; Delreux, Tom; Farcy, Christine

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“…EU forest policy is thus spread across various EU-level institutions, such as Directorates-General for climate change, development cooperation, environment, and trade. Each of these have their own perspectives on forest issues, with a similar situation prevailing at the level of individual EU Member States as well, where different dimensions of forest policy, whether climate, trade or biodiversity related, are usually addressed by different national-level ministries [49].…”

Section: Mapping the Fragmented Evolution Of Eu Tropical Forest Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…External EU policy-making on forests has been largely aligned with the goals of specific, existing UN Conventions and international agreements. Thus, policies on biodiversity have sought to find a balance between biodiversity conservation and its sustainable economic use [50], with a stated aim of achieving and supporting sustainable forest management in this context [49]. The EU Biodiversity Strategy [51] sets out actions to implement the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, including forests.…”

Section: Mapping the Fragmented Evolution Of Eu Tropical Forest Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interviewees expressed strong support, for example, for the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) as a model for tackling demand, despite well documented implementation challenges [49,75]. At least six interviewees noted that the EU needs to take a regulatory approach to tackling deforestation, along the lines of an EUTR for agricultural commodities (Interviews with: EU policy-maker in Brussels, 1 February 2018; NGO representative by skype, 23 February 2018; and NGO representative by skype, 16 March 2018; an EU agency member by skype, 12 April 2018; independent expert by skype 15 April 2018; independent expert by skype, 17 August 2018).…”

Section: Shifting Responsibility From South To North: Targeting Demand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Embodied Deforestation” as a New EU Policy Debate to Tackle Tropical Forest Loss: Assessing Implications for REDD+ Performance

Weatherley-Singh

Gupta²

2018

Forests

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The need to tackle international drivers of deforestation has long been acknowledged; but remains little addressed via policy measures. In the European Union (EU), a new policy debate is emerging around the concept of "embodied deforestation", which targets EU agricultural commodity imports as drivers of deforestation. The notion views deforestation as an externality generated by EU imports associated with tropical deforestation. Our article examines whether this concept represents a shift in tackling international-level drivers of tropical deforestation within EU policy. We also examine, from a networked governance perspective, whether this new debate fuels further fragmentation or rather a move towards a more integrated approach to combating tropical forest loss within EU policy, and what the implications are for other initiatives, such as the climate change related "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" (REDD+). Our analysis draws on an extensive analysis of EU policy documents and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and EU decision-makers. We find that, despite growing debate around the concept of embodied deforestation, policy measures necessary to reduce the impact of EU consumption of agricultural commodities associated with tropical deforestation have not yet been developed. We conclude that "embodied deforestation" remains more an idea than reality within EU policy to date, with the burden of responsibility for addressing international deforestation drivers still largely remaining on developing countries. There is still potential, however, for this debate to lead to a more integrated approach to tackling tropical deforestation within EU policy, if it comes to be seen, together with REDD+, as one of a number of linked approaches to EU efforts to combat deforestation.

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Section: Mapping the Fragmented Evolution Of Eu Tropical Forest Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mapping the Fragmented Evolution Of Eu Tropical Forest Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Shifting Responsibility From South To North: Targeting Demand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Embodied Deforestation” as a New EU Policy Debate to Tackle Tropical Forest Loss: Assessing Implications for REDD+ Performance

Weatherley-Singh

Gupta²

2018

Forests

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“…International forest policy negotiations have also been strongly influenced by ecological perspectives, with many discussions attempting to achieve a balance between conservation and use and achieve sustainable forest management (Pirlot et al 2018), but recently becoming more heavily influenced by actors from economic and utilitarian perspectives (Giessen et al 2014). Parallel shifts from conservation to economic objectives can also be observed in the academic literature on 'landscape approaches', which originally focused on ecologically-defined landscapes, but more recently have incorporated social and economic objectives and 'multifunctional landscape' concepts (Sayer et al 2013).…”

Section: Multi-level Networked Forest Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This analysis took the EU as a case study because it has been a leader in attempting to integrate environmental goals into other sectoral policies (Visseren-Hamakers 2015) and is currently a global frontrunner in the development of sustainable production and consumption policies (Wang et al 2019). Furthermore, the EU is actively engaged in working to influence global forest policy discussions beyond its borders (Pirlot et al 2018), and may therefore drive forward change in other global regions.…”

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An assessment of the transformational potential of REDD+ in tackling drivers of deforestation

Weatherley-Singh¹

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements i List of Figures v List of Tables v Abbreviations vi 5.5.1 Conceptualising embodied deforestation: emerging policy narratives 5.5.2. Shifting responsibility from South to North: targeting demand? 5.5.3. From fragmentation to integration in networked EU forest governance: what role for REDD+? 5.6. Conclusion 6. Conclusion 6.1 Synthesis of the Research Findings 6.2 Answering the Research Questions 6.2.1. Conceptualisations of REDD+ and ability to tackle drivers 6.2.2 Is REDD+ bringing transformational change through policy integration? 6.3 Contribution to Knowledge and External Validity 6.4 Areas of Future Research References Appendices Appendix 1 List of Project Design Documents (PDDs) analysed Appendix 2 List of EU policy documents analysed Appendix 3 Interviewees with knowledge of national-level REDD+ processes Appendix 4 List of stakeholders interviewed for the 'embodied deforestation' analysis Appendix 5 Questions for interviews with REDD+ project beneficiaries Appendix 6 Questionnaire for semi-structured interviews with national level REDD+ stakeholders Appendix 7 Questionnaires for international-level stakeholders involved in policy discussions on 'embodied deforestation'

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Sustainable Forestry Under Changing Climate

Jhariya

Yadav

Banerjee

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Sustainable Agriculture, Forest and Environmental Management

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Forests: A Multi-sectoral and Multi-level Approach to Sustainable Forest Management

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

“Embodied Deforestation” as a New EU Policy Debate to Tackle Tropical Forest Loss: Assessing Implications for REDD+ Performance

“Embodied Deforestation” as a New EU Policy Debate to Tackle Tropical Forest Loss: Assessing Implications for REDD+ Performance

An assessment of the transformational potential of REDD+ in tackling drivers of deforestation

Sustainable Forestry Under Changing Climate

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