کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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92178 | 159916 | 2009 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
![عکس صفحه اول مقاله: A short history of Dutch forest policy: The ‘de-institutionalisation’ of a policy arrangement A short history of Dutch forest policy: The ‘de-institutionalisation’ of a policy arrangement](/preview/png/92178.png)
Over the past thirty years, forest policy in the Netherlands has almost entirely been integrated into nature policy. This process of ‘de-institutionalisation’ is surprising in view of widely accepted theories of institutional stability and ‘path dependency’. The process is investigated in this paper along the four dimensions of the policy arrangement approach: discourse, power, rules and actors. It is argued that a discursive shift, moving the focus from production forest to ‘forest as part of nature’ and fuelled by a number of underlying factors, lies at the heart of the process. In concordance with this shift, advocates of timber autarky lost power in favour of ‘nature advocates’. A more diverse set of actors became involved in forest policy, also reflecting a more general trend in Dutch politics towards greater openness and the erosion of neo-corporatist rules. Thus, changes in all four dimensions of the policy arrangement worked into one direction. This may explain the unusually quick and radical ‘de-institutionalisation’ of Dutch forest policy.
Journal: Forest Policy and Economics - Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 202–208