Forest Policy Reform and the Restructuring of the Forest Industry in Russia

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Kakizawa ◽  
Ki-wang An
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reform ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Forest Policy Reform

scholarly journals Farm-forestry in the Peruvian Amazon and the feasibility of its regulation through forest policy reform

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin R. Sears ◽  
Peter Cronkleton ◽  
Fredy Polo Villanueva ◽  
Medardo Miranda Ruiz ◽  
Matías Pérez-Ojeda del Arco
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reform ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Farm Forestry ◽  
Forest Policy Reform

The involvement of stakeholders in a forest policy reform process: Democracy promotion and power redistribution (reviewed paper)

2006 ◽  
Vol 157 (10) ◽  
pp. 483-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Kouplevatskaya
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Democracy Promotion ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Forest Policy Reform ◽  
The Impact

Participation is often presented as a tool to promote democracy, but it also leads to the redefinition of issues, decisions as well as to power redistribution among stakeholders. Based on empirical evidence drawn from the forest policy reform in Kyrgyzstan (a former constituent republic of the Soviet Union) and from an analysis of basic theoretical frameworks for participation, the paper treats the question of power in relation to decision-making and participatory processes as well as the impact that participation has on the empowerment of some groups of stakeholders.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Stakeholders' Participation in a Process of Forest Policy Reform in Kyrgyz Republic (reviewed paper)

2005 ◽  
Vol 156 (10) ◽  
pp. 385-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Kouplevatskaya-Yunusova
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Forest Policy Reform ◽  
National Forest Policy

National forest policy reform based on participation proves to be a complex multi-layer process in the course of which all the participants are subject to continuous adaptation to the permanently changing context. The example of Kyrgyzstan shows that participation is not only a procedure for deliberative democracy or collaborative learning, but also a means for re-appropriation of power by the stronger stakeholders.

Obstacles to Silviculture in Canada

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Pearse
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Timber Markets

As the source of raw material for Canada's forest industry shifts from the frontier of original timber to managed crops, the policy framework influencing investments in silviculture assumes critical importance. Opportunities for economically beneficial silviculture are probably substantial, but policy makers have been provided with surprisingly little evidence of the kind they need to allocate budgets appropriately. Moreover, governments have created serious obstacles to silviculture through property tax systems that generate disincentives to forest enhancement, through forest tenure arrangements that are insecure or dampen regional timber markets, and through regulations that impede or distort silvicultural effort. Removal of these obstacles, and provision of information and guidance about silvicultural opportunities, would give considerable stimulus to improved forest management in Canada and undoubtedly at less cost than new governmental silvicultural programs. Key words: forest policy economic opportunities, incentives and obstacles for forestry, silvicultural investments, forest regulations.

Community stability and forest policy in British Columbia

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. N. Byron
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Community Stability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Wood Processing ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Sustained Yield

Many jurisdictions including British Columbia have adopted sustained-yield forest management as the cornerstone of their forest policies. It has been argued that one consequence is 'community stability.' This paper examines the origins of the argument and its validity in the current context. It is concluded that the permanence or survival of forest industry centres is neither assured by nor solely dependent upon the perpetual maintenance of nearby forests at or near sustained-yield levels. Rather the size and distribution of wood-processing centres seems to be determined by technological economies of scale and location with respect to means of transportation. Secondly, even-flow regulations perse cannot achieve short-term stability of employment or incomes when the forest industry of a region produces primarily for volatile export markets.Evidence is presented to show that the logging, processing, and associated occupations are unstable, relative to other occupational groups, in each of the forest industry centres examined. The instability of total employment seems much greater in a single-industry town than in a diversified city. Much of the short-term employment instability is correlated with changes in the price of lumber destined for export markets. Some means of reducing the instability are discussed.

scholarly journals Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
M.K. (Marty) Luckert ◽  
Peter C Boxall
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Forest Lands

This paper discusses the potential of certification and criteria and indicators (C&I) of sustainable forest management (SFM) for filling voids in forest policy in Canada. These processes have promised advances towards SFM that the current property rights conveyed on the forest industry, through existing systems of tenures, may simply not allow. In general, the broad social welfare approach that current thinking in sustainable development supports, and that certification and criteria and indicators appear to employ, is not consistent with the incentives, rights, and responsibilities that private forestry firms currently hold. There is a fundamental mismatch between the property rights that have been conveyed to private firms operating on public forest lands and what the policy frameworks of certification and C&I are expected to deliver. The conclusion is that if the voids in forest policy are to be successfully filled by certification and C&I, the underlying property rights currently held by firms will need revision. Key words: sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, certification, Canadian forest policy, forest tenures

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