Search for dissertations about: "forest governance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words forest governance.

  2. 1. Forest water governance : challenges in cross-sectoral and multi-level collaboration

    Author : Irina Mancheva; Katarina Eckerberg; Anna Zachrisson; Susan Baker; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Forest water; Governance; Cross-sectoral governance; Multi-level governance; Governance mode; Collaborative governance; Natural resource management; Environmental policy; Water Framework Directive;

    Abstract : Forests and water are highly interconnected with forestry practices negatively affecting forest water. In the last five decades, the Swedish state has enacted multiple policy changes and allocated significant resources towards the implementation of soft policy instruments to alleviate the effects on forest water. READ MORE

  4. 2. Constructing and contesting the legitimacy of private forest governance : The case of forest certification in Sweden

    Author : Johanna Johansson; Carina Keskitalo; Karin Bäckstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; corporate social responsibility; eco-labelling; forest certification; forest governance; forest practices; governance; legitimacy; national forest inventory; private governance; Sweden; voluntary standards; statskunskap; political science;

    Abstract : In recent decades, political scientists have devoted substantial attention to the changing role of the state towards more inclusion of non-state actors in policymaking. This deliberative turn, or move towards governance, may signal inability to handle complex problems without cooperation with nonstate actors. READ MORE

  5. 3. Deep Roots and Tangled Branches : Bureaucracy and Collaboration in Natural Resource Governance in South India

    Author : Marcus Wangel; Hans Blomkvist; Nils Hertting; Daniel Nohrstedt; Victor Galaz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collaboration; networks; governance; development administration; bureaucracy; public officials; roles; institutional analysis; informal institutions; rules-in-use; political ethnography; natural resource governance; forest governance; common pool resources; India; Kerala; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This is a study about collaboration within bureaucracies tasked with natural resource management in the contemporary Global South. It seeks to fill a considerable knowledge gap in the extant literature by exploring how individual public officials perceive the policy environment they work in. READ MORE

  6. 4. A land of one's own : Sami resource use in Sweden's boreal landscape under autonomous governance

    Author : Gudrun Norstedt; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ALS; archaeology; boreal forest; dendrochronology; forest history; historical maps; interdisciplinary research; lidar; Sami; settlement patterns; ALS; arkeologi; boreal skog; bosättningsmönster; dendrokronologi; historiska kartor; lidar; samer; skogshistoria; tvärvetenskap;

    Abstract : The Sami dominated large parts of boreal Sweden well into the 18th century, and knowledge of Sami subsistence patterns is therefore a key to the region’s forest history. Although much research has been done on Sami resource use and landscape impact, the context is often vaguely understood. READ MORE

  7. 5. Forest management and governance in Sweden : a phronetic analysis of social practices

    Author : Ida Wallin; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The transition to a sustainable society requires improved knowledge about what determines forest management and the relationship to governance and policies. This thesis constitutes a phronetic analysis of social practices in forest management at the local level and of how social practices materialise and influence forest governance and ultimately, forest management more broadly. READ MORE