NEW GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOREST POLICY: INSTITUTIONAL,POLITICAL AND REGULATORY DIMENSIONS |
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| Authors: | MEINHARD DOELLE CHRIS HENSCHEL JENNIFER SMITH CHRIS TOLLEFSON ADAM WELLSTEAD |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Meinhard Doelle is the Associate Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;2. Chris Henschel is National Manager of Boreal Conservation at the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS);3. Jennifer Smith is an LLM candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria;4. Chris Tollefson is the Hakai Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada;5. Adam Wellstead is in the Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA. |
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| Abstract: | This article investigates emerging governance arrangements at the intersection between forest management and climate policy. The authors deploy the symposium's three‐dimensional framework to describe and evaluate developments within two distinct policy sectors (forestry/climate change adaptation and mitigation) at several levels of governance (bi‐national, national, and sub‐national) to explore the nature and operation of the emerging governance arrangements, and assessing and measuring change within these arrangements over time. Drawing on four contemporary case studies from the US and Canada, New Zealand, British Columbia and Alaska, the authors discern little evidence of a generalized, linear trend from ‘government to governance’. Instead, they conclude, across institutional, political and regulatory dimensions of governance, a more variegated and diverse picture emerges. Their analysis also lends support for the Trubek and Trubek (2007) hypothesis that emerging governance arrangements typically interact with extant ones through modalities of rivalry, complementarity and transformation. |
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