 Barriers to institutional learning and innovations in the forest sector in Europe: Markets, policies and stakeholdersGerard Buttoud, Irina Kouplevatskaya-Buttoud, Bill Slee and Gerhard Weiss Forest Policy and Economics, 2011, vol. 13, issue 2, 124-131 Abstract: Innovations in the forest sector may be very different in origin, objectives, context and content. This paper analyses several institutional innovations with the capacity to create considerable changes in the rules of the game of forest policy making in Austria, Scotland and France. All cases provide relevant examples of the public effort in promoting institutional innovation, in a context characterised by a shift from government regulation to governance mechanisms. They also provide examples of the basic role of the market in orienting innovation, independently from the institutional perspective. They also show that the outcome is often different to that which was expected. Whilst technical innovations in wood production are perhaps more easily learned and developed, economic considerations often intervene to impede organisational innovations aimed at promoting the multifunctional management of forests. Keywords: Forest policy; Wood market; Institutional reform; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:forpol:v:13:y:2011:i:2:p:124-131 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.05.006 Access Statistics for this article Forest Policy and Economics is currently edited by M. Krott More articles in Forest Policy and Economics from Elsevier |
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