New governance arrangements at the intersection of climate change and forest policy: Institutional, political and regulatory dimensions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-27-2012
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.
Publication Title
Public Administration
Recommended Citation
Doelle, M.,
Henschel, C.,
Smith, J.,
Tollefson, C.,
&
Wellstead, A.
(2012).
New governance arrangements at the intersection of climate change and forest policy: Institutional, political and regulatory dimensions.
Public Administration,
90(1), 37-55.
http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.02006.x
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/social-sciences-fp/23
Publisher's Statement
© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Publisher's version of record: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.02006.x