Forestry governance and collective learning process in Italy: Likelihood or utopia?

Laura Secco, Davide Pettenella and Paola Gatto

Forest Policy and Economics, 2011, vol. 13, issue 2, 104-112

Abstract: A shift from government to governance in the approaches to forest policy formulation and related decision-making procedures is taking place at global level. Policy-makers and other actors traditionally involved in forestry-related decision-making have to tackle and apply new concepts and tools, like public participation, networking and governance mechanisms. These issues are taken into consideration in the paper, using a research approach based on six explicatory–exploratory case studies in Italy. New ideas and tools are slowly entering the Italian forest policy arena as a result of international driving forces like the global dialogue on forests and the growing demand for responsible behaviour and transparency.

Keywords: Governance; Collective learning; Participatory approaches; Forestry; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.04.002

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