NDLI: Institutional factors and opportunities for adapting European forest management to climate change

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Author	Bouriaud, Laura Marza, Mariella Lexer, Manfred Nichiforel, Liviu Reyer, Christopher Temperli, Christian Peltola, Heli Elkin, Ché Duduman, Gabriel Taylor, Philip Bathgate, Stephen Borges, Jose G. Clerkx, Sandra Garcia Gonzalo, Jordi Gracia, Carlos Hengeveld, Geerten Kellomäki, Seppo Kostov, Georgi Maroschek, Michael Muys, Bart Nabuurs, Gert Jan Nicoll, Bruce Palahí, Marc Rammer, Werner Ray, Duncan Schelhaas, Mart Jan Sing, Louise Tomé, Margarida Zell, Juergen Hanewinkel, Marc
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Despite the fact that the institutional environment is acknowledged to influence the implementation of regional adaptations of forest management to climate change, there are few empirical studies addressing the institutional factors and opportunities of adaptation. Using Ostrom’s institutional analysis and development framework, we aimed to identify : (1) the critical and distinctive characteristics of the forest resource and institutional context that may determine how climate change-adaptive forest management measures are implemented and (2) the opportunities for implementing the planned adaptation measures. The analysis is performed on ten European case study regions which differed in many resource-dependent factors, policy arena factors and incentives for changes. The main factors influencing the adaptation are the ownership pattern, the level of policy formation and the nature of forest goods and services. Opportunities for adaptation are driven by the openness of the forest management planning processes to the stakeholders participation, the degree to which business as usual management is projected to be non-satisfactory in the future, and by the number and nature of obstacles to adaptation. Promoting local self-governance mechanisms and the participation of the external stakeholders in forest management planning or in the regional forest or climate change policy adaptation may be a way of overcoming path dependency, behavioural obstacles and potential policy failures in implementing adaptation. The study argues that both climate change belief systems and political participation are important to explain adaptation to climate change when multiple decision-making levels are at stake.
Starting Page	1595
Ending Page	1609
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14363798
Journal	Regional Environmental Change
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	8
e-ISSN	1436378X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2015-08-22
Publisher Place	Berlin/Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Climate change adaptation Forest planning Institutional analysis and development framework Ownership pattern Forest ecosystem services Climate Change Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts Oceanography Geography Regional/Spatial Science Nature Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Global and Planetary Change

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