New Governance Arrangements at the Intersection of Climate Change and Forest Policy: Institutional, Political and Regulatory Dimensions

Authors

Meinhard Doelle, Dalhousie University Schulich School of LawFollow
Chris Henschel
Jennifer Smith, Dalhousie University
Chris Tollefson, University of Victoria - Faculty of Law
Adam Wellstead, Michigan Technological University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Keywords

Governance Arrangements, Climate Policy, Forest Management, United States, Canada, New Zealand

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, amore 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.

Comments

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.02006.x

Recommended Citation

Meinhard Doelle et al, "New Governance Arrangements at the Intersection of Climate Change and Forest Policy: Institutional, Political and Regulatory Dimensions" (2012) 90:1 Public Administration 37.