This study addresses a critical limitation of Actor-centered Power (ACP) theory in Community-based Conservation (CBC) initiatives: its tendency to rely on predefined roles for actors, which can obscure the complex dynamics within communities. By integrating ACP theory with Scharpf's actor typology, this research aims to provide a framework that better reflects the nuanced power relationships both within communities and between communities and external actors. Using a comparative case study approach, we analyze three CBC programs in China to test this framework. Our findings underscore two key contributions. First, the combined framework allows for a more precise identification and analysis of power relations, revealing how internal and external actor roles shape community cohesion and collective action. Second, we highlight the significance of informational power in fostering communities' development as collective actors, thereby enhancing CBC effectiveness.
{"title":"Enhancing actor-centered power theory through actor typology: Insights from community-based conservation in China","authors":"Jiacheng Zhao , Pei Zhang , Feng Tian , Weiping Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses a critical limitation of Actor-centered Power (ACP) theory in Community-based Conservation (CBC) initiatives: its tendency to rely on predefined roles for actors, which can obscure the complex dynamics within communities. By integrating ACP theory with Scharpf's actor typology, this research aims to provide a framework that better reflects the nuanced power relationships both within communities and between communities and external actors. Using a comparative case study approach, we analyze three CBC programs in China to test this framework. Our findings underscore two key contributions. First, the combined framework allows for a more precise identification and analysis of power relations, revealing how internal and external actor roles shape community cohesion and collective action. Second, we highlight the significance of informational power in fostering communities' development as collective actors, thereby enhancing CBC effectiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103425"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-11DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103420
Liina Häyrinen, Janne Kaseva, Eija Pouta
In addressing global environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and the degradation of vulnerable ecosystems, the role of forest owners and their cooperation is essential. Despite the evident potential of cooperation, the interaction among forest owners remains an underexplored area, particularly concerning the factors that influence forest owners' willingness to cooperate. This study focuses on various forms of forest owner cooperation, ranging from shared goals to the joint implementation of management actions. We apply the theory of planned behavior to understand forest owners' intentions to cooperate based on their attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and related beliefs. Using survey data from eastern Finland, the results demonstrate that a forest owners' intentions to cooperate are predominantly influenced by their attitudes. These attitudes towards cooperation are largely shaped by a set of behavioral beliefs that are primarily environmentally oriented. The findings suggest that emphasizing the environmental benefits of cooperation can be a key strategy in persuading forest owners to cooperate.
{"title":"Finnish forest owners' intentions to participate in cooperative forest management","authors":"Liina Häyrinen, Janne Kaseva, Eija Pouta","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103420","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In addressing global environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and the degradation of vulnerable ecosystems, the role of forest owners and their cooperation is essential. Despite the evident potential of cooperation, the interaction among forest owners remains an underexplored area, particularly concerning the factors that influence forest owners' willingness to cooperate. This study focuses on various forms of forest owner cooperation, ranging from shared goals to the joint implementation of management actions. We apply the theory of planned behavior to understand forest owners' intentions to cooperate based on their attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and related beliefs. Using survey data from eastern Finland, the results demonstrate that a forest owners' intentions to cooperate are predominantly influenced by their attitudes. These attitudes towards cooperation are largely shaped by a set of behavioral beliefs that are primarily environmentally oriented. The findings suggest that emphasizing the environmental benefits of cooperation can be a key strategy in persuading forest owners to cooperate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103420"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103422
Leonie Wagner , Franziska Miederhoff
Forests in Germany are experiencing crises due to climate change, dry summers, storms, and widespread damage from pests and diseases. By understanding how private forest owners experience ownership and forest disturbances due to climate change, this study provides valuable insights to better meet the needs of forest owners with family tradition and inform policy decisions and implementations. The literature on forest disturbances primarily concentrates on the economic significance for the forest industry and its ecological consequences. Although studies have shown that severe storms and windthrows alter forest owners' identities and lead to shifts in awareness and emotional responses, the psychological effects of significant forest disturbances remain unexplored. The impact of forest disturbances on forest owners' psychological ownership and subsequent management responses has yet to be investigated, leaving a significant research gap. In this study, we show (a) that different dimensions and manifestations of psychological ownership can be observed among forest owners and (b) that forest disturbances influence all three pathways of forest owners' psychological ownership in various ways, resulting in changes of the motives of psychological ownership. Connectedness to the forest and intergenerational forest family tradition are essential aspects of forest-related identities challenged by disturbances. However, traditional forest owners integrate disturbances into their narrations and counterbalance the loss of control through further knowledge acquisition and greater self-investment. We suggest peer-to-peer learning and communication to foster psychological ownership and address diverse knowledge, values, and identities.
{"title":"Forest disturbances change psychological ownership among traditional private forest owners in North Rhine Westphalia","authors":"Leonie Wagner , Franziska Miederhoff","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103422","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103422","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests in Germany are experiencing crises due to climate change, dry summers, storms, and widespread damage from pests and diseases. By understanding how private forest owners experience ownership and forest disturbances due to climate change, this study provides valuable insights to better meet the needs of forest owners with family tradition and inform policy decisions and implementations. The literature on forest disturbances primarily concentrates on the economic significance for the forest industry and its ecological consequences. Although studies have shown that severe storms and windthrows alter forest owners' identities and lead to shifts in awareness and emotional responses, the psychological effects of significant forest disturbances remain unexplored. The impact of forest disturbances on forest owners' psychological ownership and subsequent management responses has yet to be investigated, leaving a significant research gap. In this study, we show (a) that different dimensions and manifestations of psychological ownership can be observed among forest owners and (b) that forest disturbances influence all three pathways of forest owners' psychological ownership in various ways, resulting in changes of the motives of psychological ownership. Connectedness to the forest and intergenerational forest family tradition are essential aspects of forest-related identities challenged by disturbances. However, traditional forest owners integrate disturbances into their narrations and counterbalance the loss of control through further knowledge acquisition and greater self-investment. We suggest peer-to-peer learning and communication to foster psychological ownership and address diverse knowledge, values, and identities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103422"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103424
Antoni Ungirwalu , J.R. Mansoben , Yubelince Y. Runtuboi , Sepus M. Fatem , Mariana H. Peday , Jonni Marwa , Ahmad Maryudi
Tribal leaders in Papua had been positioned as both cultural symbols and real decision-making leaders, but they have lost their power over natural resource management and forests. Using the case of nutmeg management by the tribal Baham-Matta community, we present changes in the power constellations within the local social structures, in which the Kings (Patuans), the highest tribal leaders, have increasingly been unable to rule their people. In this research, we mainly employed the theoretical framework of Actor-centered Power, complemented by the Sequential Power Analysis approach, centered on historical timelines to better grasp the power contestation over time. We found that the Patuans have lost their key power sources/elements, a blend of dominant information, incentives/disincentives, and coercion stemming from the culturally entrenched beliefs held about their spiritual strengths, knowledge and skills in natural resource management and monopolistic contacts with traders. At the same time, community members have gained new power by accessing direct contacts with external traders, enabling them to act according to their own will. The change in the power configuration regarding nutmeg management has been driven by changes in the broader structural (external) context. Specifically, we argue that the introduction of new tenure and administration systems by the state created new social and power relations within the tribal community. The current tenure reform initiatives such as social forestry policies need to consider traditional systems such as nutmeg management, which constitute a key source of livelihood for the tribal community.
{"title":"The fall of the kings: Power relations and dynamics in Papua's indigenous community in forest resource management","authors":"Antoni Ungirwalu , J.R. Mansoben , Yubelince Y. Runtuboi , Sepus M. Fatem , Mariana H. Peday , Jonni Marwa , Ahmad Maryudi","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tribal leaders in Papua had been positioned as both cultural symbols and real decision-making leaders, but they have lost their power over natural resource management and forests. Using the case of nutmeg management by the tribal Baham-Matta community, we present changes in the power constellations within the local social structures, in which the Kings (<em>Patuans</em>), the highest tribal leaders, have increasingly been unable to rule their people. In this research, we mainly employed the theoretical framework of Actor-centered Power, complemented by the Sequential Power Analysis approach, centered on historical timelines to better grasp the power contestation over time. We found that the <em>Patuans</em> have lost their key power sources/elements, a blend of dominant information, incentives/disincentives, and coercion stemming from the culturally entrenched beliefs held about their spiritual strengths, knowledge and skills in natural resource management and monopolistic contacts with traders. At the same time, community members have gained new power by accessing direct contacts with external traders, enabling them to act according to their own will. The change in the power configuration regarding nutmeg management has been driven by changes in the broader structural (external) context. Specifically, we argue that the introduction of new tenure and administration systems by the state created new social and power relations within the tribal community. The current tenure reform initiatives such as social forestry policies need to consider traditional systems such as nutmeg management, which constitute a key source of livelihood for the tribal community.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103424"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103421
Jingqi Dang , Jingru Wang , Bingqian Tu
The National Forest City Construction (NFCC) initiative aims to improve regional greening levels, optimize ecosystem services, and achieve sustainable development. This policy serves as a key measure to promote eco-friendly urbanization and facilitate coordinated economic development in both urban and rural areas through green transitions. As a comprehensive ecological initiative, the NFCC stimulates local employment through various unexpected channels. This study examines the employment effects of the NFCC using a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) approach, analyzing a panel dataset of 289 prefectures in China from 2002 to 2019. We find that the NFCC increased local employment by an average of 7.08 % in prefectures adopting the policy compared to those without implementation. The policy promotes employment through several mechanisms: (1) stimulating growth in forest-related industries and enhancing business performance, (2) improving the ecological environment to generate indirect job opportunities, and (3) promoting local infrastructure development, which creates additional jobs and attracts skilled workers. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that NFCC benefits extend beyond the primary sector, driving employment growth in manufacturing and service sectors, particularly among private and self-employed workers in forest-rich regions. These findings demonstrate the potential of government-led green initiatives to foster flexible employment opportunities and address job losses in traditional sectors. To maximize long-term benefits, we recommend targeted investments in vocational training and workforce development to align with the demands of the green economy.
{"title":"The impact of National Forest City Construction on local employment: Evidence from China","authors":"Jingqi Dang , Jingru Wang , Bingqian Tu","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103421","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103421","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The National Forest City Construction (NFCC) initiative aims to improve regional greening levels, optimize ecosystem services, and achieve sustainable development. This policy serves as a key measure to promote eco-friendly urbanization and facilitate coordinated economic development in both urban and rural areas through green transitions. As a comprehensive ecological initiative, the NFCC stimulates local employment through various unexpected channels. This study examines the employment effects of the NFCC using a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) approach, analyzing a panel dataset of 289 prefectures in China from 2002 to 2019. We find that the NFCC increased local employment by an average of 7.08 % in prefectures adopting the policy compared to those without implementation. The policy promotes employment through several mechanisms: (1) stimulating growth in forest-related industries and enhancing business performance, (2) improving the ecological environment to generate indirect job opportunities, and (3) promoting local infrastructure development, which creates additional jobs and attracts skilled workers. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that NFCC benefits extend beyond the primary sector, driving employment growth in manufacturing and service sectors, particularly among private and self-employed workers in forest-rich regions. These findings demonstrate the potential of government-led green initiatives to foster flexible employment opportunities and address job losses in traditional sectors. To maximize long-term benefits, we recommend targeted investments in vocational training and workforce development to align with the demands of the green economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103421"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103408
Anna S. Brietzke , Engelbert Schramm , Katharina Heß , Diana Hummel , Michael Kreß-Ludwig , Deike U. Lüdtke
Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, forest conflicts are intensifying in Germany. For this reason, it is time to reopen the scientific debate on how we research and manage forest conflicts. In this commentary, we argue that a social-ecological approach takes into account the interactions and interdependencies between social and physical structures and processes of forest conflicts. Consequently, the approach helps to analyse and shape these conflicts.
A social-ecological approach facilitates the consideration of the physical, social, cultural, political and economic aspects of the forest conflicts as well as the dynamics and contexts of different conflicts. It contributes to analysing the site-specific conditions, parameters and dynamics of local forest conflicts. Four shaping dimensions (knowledge, practices, technologies, institutions) can help to relate the conflicts more precisely to the social-ecological system. Against this background, in particular the social context of the conflicts can be analysed in detail.
In turn, a social-ecological approach to conflict management opens up the possibility of initiating change in social and physical interactions and interdependencies. The concept of conflict transformation can complement the social-ecological approach in an action-oriented way, both by contributing to social learning among the conflict actors and by generating ways of dealing with the particular forest that are adapted to new challenges.
{"title":"A social-ecological approach to local forest conflict analysis and shaping","authors":"Anna S. Brietzke , Engelbert Schramm , Katharina Heß , Diana Hummel , Michael Kreß-Ludwig , Deike U. Lüdtke","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103408","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, forest conflicts are intensifying in Germany. For this reason, it is time to reopen the scientific debate on how we research and manage forest conflicts. In this commentary, we argue that a social-ecological approach takes into account the interactions and interdependencies between social and physical structures and processes of forest conflicts. Consequently, the approach helps to analyse and shape these conflicts.</div><div>A social-ecological approach facilitates the consideration of the physical, social, cultural, political and economic aspects of the forest conflicts as well as the dynamics and contexts of different conflicts. It contributes to analysing the site-specific conditions, parameters and dynamics of local forest conflicts. Four shaping dimensions (<em>knowledge</em>, <em>practices</em>, <em>technologies</em>, <em>institutions</em>) can help to relate the conflicts more precisely to the social-ecological system. Against this background, in particular the social context of the conflicts can be analysed in detail.</div><div>In turn, a social-ecological approach to conflict management opens up the possibility of initiating change in social and physical interactions and interdependencies. The concept of <em>conflict transformation</em> can complement the social-ecological approach in an action-oriented way, both by contributing to social learning among the conflict actors and by generating ways of dealing with the particular forest that are adapted to new challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103408"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103423
Nick Lalrinmawia , R. Lalengmawia , P.C. Vanlalhluna , Vanlalhruaii Ralte , B.C. Lalremruata , F. Lalnunmawia
Community-based forest management has gained global prominence and this commentary explores the socio-ecological dynamics of forest management in India, highlighting its role in biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and forest regeneration. Community management has shown significant ecological improvements in areas of forest health, economic benefits and climate mitigation. However, certain challenges persist which includes anthropogenic disturbances, inequitable benefit sharing, and exclusion of marginalized groups. The integration of indigenous knowledge, economic factors, and gender equity into forest governance strategies is critical for the long-term success of these programs. Drawing on India's policy and community-driven experiences, this policy forum offers actionable recommendations for global policymakers to ensure effective forest governance.
{"title":"What we can learn from India, a forerunner in community centric forest management: An insight for global forest policy and governance","authors":"Nick Lalrinmawia , R. Lalengmawia , P.C. Vanlalhluna , Vanlalhruaii Ralte , B.C. Lalremruata , F. Lalnunmawia","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Community-based forest management has gained global prominence and this commentary explores the socio-ecological dynamics of forest management in India, highlighting its role in biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and forest regeneration. Community management has shown significant ecological improvements in areas of forest health, economic benefits and climate mitigation. However, certain challenges persist which includes anthropogenic disturbances, inequitable benefit sharing, and exclusion of marginalized groups. The integration of indigenous knowledge, economic factors, and gender equity into forest governance strategies is critical for the long-term success of these programs. Drawing on India's policy and community-driven experiences, this policy forum offers actionable recommendations for global policymakers to ensure effective forest governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103423"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103384
Clémence Labarre , Jean-Christophe Domec , Pablo Andrés-Domenech , Kai Bödeker , Logan Bingham , Denis Loustau
Forests are complex adaptive systems (CAS) featuring dynamics that can take centuries to unfold. Managing them for multiple objectives (e.g. financial performance, climate regulation, biodiversity conservation, watershed protection) in the face of multiple risks (e.g. market fluctuations, illegal logging, natural disturbance) involves making decisions under deep and pervasive uncertainty. Through a systematic literature review, we explore quantitative approaches for integrating uncertainty and complex-systems theory into forest management planning and examine common challenges like dimensionality, tractability and realism. In addition to comparatively well-studied techniques from operations research and portfolio theory, we highlight a largely-overlooked framework known as viability theory. Whereas approaches like stochastic programming and robust optimization seek to maximize performance given predefined outcome probabilities and uncertainty spaces, respectively, viability theory aims to identify executive rules that can delineate the boundaries of the safe-operating space based on system dynamics. We discuss the potential utility of this novel approach to capturing uncertainty and examine potential barriers to improving forest decision-making and management.
{"title":"Improving forest decision-making through complex system representation: A viability theory perspective","authors":"Clémence Labarre , Jean-Christophe Domec , Pablo Andrés-Domenech , Kai Bödeker , Logan Bingham , Denis Loustau","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests are complex adaptive systems (CAS) featuring dynamics that can take centuries to unfold. Managing them for multiple objectives (e.g. financial performance, climate regulation, biodiversity conservation, watershed protection) in the face of multiple risks (e.g. market fluctuations, illegal logging, natural disturbance) involves making decisions under deep and pervasive uncertainty. Through a systematic literature review, we explore quantitative approaches for integrating uncertainty and complex-systems theory into forest management planning and examine common challenges like dimensionality, tractability and realism. In addition to comparatively well-studied techniques from operations research and portfolio theory, we highlight a largely-overlooked framework known as viability theory. Whereas approaches like stochastic programming and robust optimization seek to maximize performance given predefined outcome probabilities and uncertainty spaces, respectively, viability theory aims to identify executive rules that can delineate the boundaries of the safe-operating space based on system dynamics. We discuss the potential utility of this novel approach to capturing uncertainty and examine potential barriers to improving forest decision-making and management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103384"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103400
Shenwei Wan, Shuifa Ke, Chen Liang
Our study focuses on key state-owned forest areas in China, utilizing the talent ecosystem theory and combining Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) with fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for the aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents in 87 forestry enterprises. We analyze the complex causal relationships between forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation and five factors within the talent ecosystem: forestry enterprise economic conditions, forestry enterprise scientific and technological quality, forestry enterprise work opportunities, forestry enterprise living security, and forestry enterprise infrastructure. The NCA method quantitatively examines whether these five factors are necessary conditions for forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation, as well as their bottleneck levels. Meanwhile, the fsQCA method qualitatively explores multiple equivalent paths that lead to high aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents through the interaction of these factors. The conclusions are as follows: First, both NCA and fsQCA results indicate that no single element of the talent ecosystem is a necessary condition for the aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents. Second, the fsQCA results reveal five effective configurations that facilitate high aggregation of talents, while three configurations inhibit high aggregation. Lastly, typical case studies of forestry enterprises were selected to deeply analyze each path that enhances forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation. These findings provide insights from key state-owned forest areas for optimizing the talent ecosystem and promoting the aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents in both China and globally.
{"title":"How the talent ecosystem of key state-owned forest areas in China empowers forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation","authors":"Shenwei Wan, Shuifa Ke, Chen Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our study focuses on key state-owned forest areas in China, utilizing the talent ecosystem theory and combining Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) with fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for the aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents in 87 forestry enterprises. We analyze the complex causal relationships between forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation and five factors within the talent ecosystem: forestry enterprise economic conditions, forestry enterprise scientific and technological quality, forestry enterprise work opportunities, forestry enterprise living security, and forestry enterprise infrastructure. The NCA method quantitatively examines whether these five factors are necessary conditions for forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation, as well as their bottleneck levels. Meanwhile, the fsQCA method qualitatively explores multiple equivalent paths that lead to high aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents through the interaction of these factors. The conclusions are as follows: First, both NCA and fsQCA results indicate that no single element of the talent ecosystem is a necessary condition for the aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents. Second, the fsQCA results reveal five effective configurations that facilitate high aggregation of talents, while three configurations inhibit high aggregation. Lastly, typical case studies of forestry enterprises were selected to deeply analyze each path that enhances forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation. These findings provide insights from key state-owned forest areas for optimizing the talent ecosystem and promoting the aggregation of forestry scientific and technological talents in both China and globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103400"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The significance of urban forests and green spaces is unquestionable, yet their maintenance is frequently hindered by the conflicting interests of various actors and power imbalances. Unfortunately, despite the vast recognition by many scholars that power is central to resource management, the subject has not received deserving attention in urban forestry and green spaces studies. This paper bridges this knowledge gap. It explores the actors, interest and power in urban forest and green spaces management as well as the sources of power of the various actors and what mechanisms do actors use to exert power and influence on the management of urban forest and green spaces. Relying on the actor-centered power (ACP) framework and a case study design, about 32 key informants and 396 urban residents were interviewed in the study. The research findings of the paper unveiled that various actors have interest in urban forest and green spaces for the ecosystem services and the problems they bestow on humanity. However, power is not uniformly distributed among the various actors who exert influence through a variety of mechanisms, including coercion and dominant information from which power is observed. The resultant effects were conflicting managerial roles and responsibilities for green spaces management affecting the sustainability of such space. By recognizing that power is dynamic but not solely concentrated within formal institutions but distributed among various actors with diverse interests and capacities, we recommend a more inclusive approach to urban forests and green spaces management. It necessitates the need for inclusive and transparent governance structure that consider the needs and dynamics of actors to ensure sustainable and equitable urban forest and green space management.
{"title":"Actor and power analysis in urban forests and green spaces management. Insights from the Garden City of West Africa","authors":"Patrick Opoku , Collins Ayine Nsor , Emmanuel Acquah , Dorothy Asare Akoto , Norbert Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103389","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103389","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The significance of urban forests and green spaces is unquestionable, yet their maintenance is frequently hindered by the conflicting interests of various actors and power imbalances. Unfortunately, despite the vast recognition by many scholars that power is central to resource management, the subject has not received deserving attention in urban forestry and green spaces studies. This paper bridges this knowledge gap. It explores the actors, interest and power in urban forest and green spaces management as well as the sources of power of the various actors and what mechanisms do actors use to exert power and influence on the management of urban forest and green spaces. Relying on the actor-centered power (ACP) framework and a case study design, about 32 key informants and 396 urban residents were interviewed in the study. The research findings of the paper unveiled that various actors have interest in urban forest and green spaces for the ecosystem services and the problems they bestow on humanity. However, power is not uniformly distributed among the various actors who exert influence through a variety of mechanisms, including coercion and dominant information from which power is observed. The resultant effects were conflicting managerial roles and responsibilities for green spaces management affecting the sustainability of such space. By recognizing that power is dynamic but not solely concentrated within formal institutions but distributed among various actors with diverse interests and capacities, we recommend a more inclusive approach to urban forests and green spaces management. It necessitates the need for inclusive and transparent governance structure that consider the needs and dynamics of actors to ensure sustainable and equitable urban forest and green space management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103389"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142823080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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