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European forest governance: Issues at stake and the way forward

Published 29 June 2013 By Pülzl et al. (editors)
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This 2013 report provides a condensed and structured description and assessment of forest-focused and forest-related policies and of actor constellations at the European level. It covers pan-Europe and the European Union (EU) as policy arenas and does not analyse and discuss national forest policymaking and the ways in which European decision-making influences national policymaking. It reviews and integrates the existing scientific literature on EU and pan-European forest governance, drawing on a number of interviews with policy experts from the field. The report sets out to provide a fresh look at potentially innovative approaches that may enable enhanced cross-sectoral and multi-level communication, coordination and cooperation.

Citation

Helga Pülzl, Karl Hogl, Daniela Kleinschmit, Doris Wydra, Bas Arts, Peter Mayer, Marc Palahí, Georg Winkel and Bernhard Wolfslehner (eds). 2013. European forest governance: Issues at stake and the way forward. What Science Can Tell Us 2. European Forest Institute.

Number of pages: 102
ISBN: 978-952-5980-03-5 (pdf)

    EFI Contributors

    Georg Winkel

    Professor and Chair of the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University

    External Authors

    Peter Mayer

    Marc Palahí

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