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Abstract

Over the past several years, at least three different forest policy processes have emerged in the European sphere, two of which are legally binding agreements - one under the auspices of Forest Europe, attempting to negotiate a legally binding agreement; and two, the possibility of a legally binding agreement within the European Union (EU). We aim to identify, reconstruct and classify the major conflicts in both the Commission Green Paper on forest protection and information in the EU: preparing forests for climate change and Forest Europe initiated LBA process. The theoretical framework of this study uses an adapted conflict regulation approach based on the conflict triangle model. Empirically four dimensions are analysed to reconstruct and classify the conflicts: substance, procedure, relationship and discourses around the conflict. Empirical data has been gathered by qualitative document analysis and expert interviews with stakeholders at the national and EU level. The results of the empirical analysis identify three major conflicting interests: a) the subsidiarity principle, b) forest management and c) the responsibility for conducting the negotiations. Classifying these three conflicts into substance and procedural dimensions highlights the major role of the latter within the recent European forest policy processes. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

European forest policy; Conflict; Forest Europe; European Union; Interests; Discourses

Published in

Forest Policy and Economics
2013, volume: 33, pages: 87-93
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

SLU Authors

  • Edwards, Peter

    • Department of Forest Products, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  • Kleinschmit, Daniela

    • Department of Forest Products, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Global goals (SDG)

SDG13 Climate action
SDG15 Life on land
SDG16 Peace, justice and strong institutions

UKÄ Subject classification

Political Science (Excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2012.06.002

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/54448