Shifting power dynamics and decision-making on U.S. National Forests: Oregon forest collaboratives in the era of social forestry

IF 4 2区 农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103291
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Emerging from the conflict and gridlock that characterized forest management in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s–1990s, community-based forest management offered a path forward. As forest collaboratives have gained in number and prominence, a shift towards social forestry, network governance consisting of collaborative processes that drive or influence U.S. Forest Service decision-making has taken root. In this era of social forestry, and as decentralization of natural resource management continues to increase, it has become increasingly important to understand the ways that power dynamics and decision-making processes have shifted. This qualitative, embedded case study research assesses the power dynamics between forest collaboratives and the Forest Service, and how these power dynamics impact the policy outcomes of the collaboratives. Our research reveals that forest collaboratives bring an added layer of institutionalization and public engagement in the decision-making process with their own suite of power dynamics. These findings suggest an increasing importance of non-state actors in forest management where collaboratives are providing increased access to knowledge and financial resources while also lending increased legitimacy and public trust to the Forest Service.

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美国国家森林的权力动态和决策转变:社会林业时代的俄勒冈森林合作组织
20 世纪 70 年代至 90 年代,西北太平洋地区的森林管理曾一度陷入冲突和僵局,而以社区为基础的森林管理则提供了一条前进之路。随着森林合作组织数量的增加和地位的提高,向社会林业的转变、由推动或影响美国林务局决策的合作过程组成的网络治理已经扎根。在这个社会林业时代,随着自然资源管理权力下放的不断加剧,了解权力动态和决策过程的转变方式变得越来越重要。这项定性、嵌入式案例研究评估了森林合作组织与林业局之间的权力动态,以及这些权力动态如何影响合作组织的政策成果。我们的研究发现,森林合作组织在决策过程中增加了一层制度化和公众参与,同时也带来了自己的一整套权力动力。这些研究结果表明,非国家行为者在森林管理中的重要性与日俱增,合作组织在提供更多获取知识和财政资源的途径的同时,也提高了林业局的合法性和公众信任度。
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Forest Policy and Economics
Forest Policy and Economics 农林科学-林学
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9.00
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7.50%
发文量
148
审稿时长
21.9 weeks
期刊介绍: Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
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