Integrating multiple environmental regimes: Land and forest policies under broader democratic reforms in the Bolivian tropical lowlands

Wil de Jong and Pablo Pacheco

Environment and Planning C, 2016, vol. 34, issue 3, 463-477

Abstract: Abstract The paper uses a policy integration (PI) approach to analyse forest sector reforms in tropical countries, using the case of reforms that affected the northern Bolivia forest economy. The paper provides a brief overview of PI and then analyses the various reforms that all contributed to reshaping Bolivia's forest sector. The major related reforms are not only forestland tenure reforms, a new forestry law, but also important public administrative and democratic reforms. The case of democratic reforms linked with land and forestry reforms in northern Bolivia makes it possible to discuss environmental PI in a tropical context, and thus to review some of the key postulates that have been formulated on the topic, but which are to date largely based on empirical experiences from the northern hemisphere.

Keywords: community development; decentralisation; policy convergence; environmental policy; land rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15621758

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