TY - JOUR
T1 - Trends in research on forestry decentralization policies
AU - Lund, Jens Friis
AU - Rutt, Rebecca Leigh
AU - Ribot, Jesse
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the editors and two anonymous reviewers for comments that improved our arguments. JFL thanks the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for financial support to the SCIFOR project (13-05KU) and the Danish Council for Independent Research (FSE, Grant No. 6119-00012) for funding his fellowship at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2016.
Funding Information:
We thank the editors and two anonymous reviewers for comments that improved our arguments. JFL thanks the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for financial support to the SCIFOR project (13-05KU) and the Danish Council for Independent Research (FSE, Grant No. 6119-00012 ) for funding his fellowship at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2016.
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - We identify and describe four strands in the literature on forestry decentralization policies: studies that assess impacts of forestry sector decentralization policies on forests and livelihoods; studies that examine whether forestry decentralization empowers public and democratic local institutions; studies focusing on power and the role of elites in forestry decentralization, and; studies that historicize and contextualize forestry decentralization as reflective of broader societal phenomena. We argue that these strands reflect disciplinary differences in values, epistemologies, and methods preferences, and that they individually provide only partial representations of forestry decentralization policies. Accordingly, we conclude that a comprehensive understanding of these policies cannot rest solely on any of these strands, but should be informed by all of them.
AB - We identify and describe four strands in the literature on forestry decentralization policies: studies that assess impacts of forestry sector decentralization policies on forests and livelihoods; studies that examine whether forestry decentralization empowers public and democratic local institutions; studies focusing on power and the role of elites in forestry decentralization, and; studies that historicize and contextualize forestry decentralization as reflective of broader societal phenomena. We argue that these strands reflect disciplinary differences in values, epistemologies, and methods preferences, and that they individually provide only partial representations of forestry decentralization policies. Accordingly, we conclude that a comprehensive understanding of these policies cannot rest solely on any of these strands, but should be informed by all of them.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.003
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85042485877
VL - 32
SP - 17
EP - 22
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -