IUFRO 9.05 International Seminar
Assessing Forest Governance in a Context of Change
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, May 9th -11th, 2012
PROGRAMME OF THE SEMINAR
Background: The objective of the seminar is to meet scientists and other experts to discuss the experiences in assessing the governance of the forest sector in various places of the world. Different approaches and methodologies will be confronted, with as a perspective to progress in the understanding of the different concepts of “governance” as applied in the forest policy and management issues.
Venue: Hotel Hollywood, Dr. Pintola 23. Ilidža, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (web site: e-mail: ).
Scientific committee: Bas Arts (The Netherlands); Mersudin Avdibegović (Bosnia-Herzegovina); Gerard Buttoud (Italy), chair; Benjamin Cashore (USA); Karl Hogl (Austria); Irina Kouplevatskaya (FAO); Max Krott (Germany); Guillermo Navarro (Costa Rica); Jeremy Rayner (Canada); Margaret Shannon (EFI).
WEDNESDAY MAY 9th, AFTERNOON
Words of introduction: Gerard Buttoud, Italy (14.00)
Plenary session 1: Change of governance, governance of change (14.00-16.00)
Chair: Gerard Buttoud (Italy). 4 invited papers
- Bas Arts (Netherlands): The different concepts of governance as applied to the forest sector; theories and logics beyond, and incidences on approaches and methodologies for assessment; comment: Margaret Shannon (EFI).
- Jeremy Rayner (Canada): What are the connections between global forest governance and national governance issues? Approaches to assessment; comment: Errol Meidinger (USA).
- David Humphreys (UK): Global change, policy change? What does the debate on carbon change in the governance of the forest sector and its assessment; comment: Alain Karsenty (France).
- Irina Kouplevatskaya (FAO): The resilience of the forest sector to policy changes; comment: Metodi Sotirov (Germany).
Plenary session 2: What has changed and not changed in forest policy and governance? (16.30-18.30)
Chair: Bas Arts (Netherlands).
- Mersudin Avdibegović, Dijana Vuletić, Makedonka Stojanovska, Leonidha Peri, Dragan Nonić, Sabina Delić, Ljiljana Keča, Nenad Petrović, Aleksandar Radosavljević, Bruno Marić, Dženan Bećirovic, Senka Mutabdžija, Amila Brajić, Todora Grašić, Vladimir Nikolić and Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia): The adaptation of national forest policy systems in South-East European countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia) to new modes of international forest governance.
- Pascal Lopez (Madagascar): Civil society organizations as a key stakeholder to foster good governance in the forest and environment sector of Madagascar.
- Georg Winkel (Germany): When the pendulum can't find the center: narratives on forest policy change in the US Pacific Northwest.
- Toon De Bruyn, David Gritten and Yurdi Yasmi (RECOFT): Conflict mediation in Asia's changing forests.
THURSDAY MAY 10th, MORNING
Plenary session 3: Understanding change as revealed by criteria and indicators(8.30-10.30)
Chair: Mersudin Avdibegović (Bosnia-Herzegovina).
- Makedonka Stojanovska, Jana Jovanovska, Marina Miovska and Vlatko Stojanovski (Macedonia-Austria): Principles of governance in forest management plans preparation in Macedonia.
- Laura Secco, Riccardo Da Re, Paola Gatto and Davide Pettenella (Italy): How to measure forest governance at local level: a set of indicators.
- Diana Voetter and Judith Slagt (EFI): Indicators of change? How to touch the intangible?
- Sabaheta Ramćilović-Suominen and Graham Epstein (EFI-Finland-USA): Towards an analytical framework for forest law compliance
Plenary session 4: Understanding change as a process (11.00-13.00)
Chair: Irina Kouplevatskaya (FAO).
- Jarmo Kortelainen and Moritz Albrecht (Finland): Emerging bio-energy systems and change in forest governance.
- Metodi Sotirov (Germany): Understanding policy change within the EU multi-level governance systems: the case of forest biodiversity conservation under EU nature protection policy Natura 2000.
- Anna Lawrence (UK): What place for evidence and learning in the evolution of multi-scale forest governance in Great-Britain?
- Fabrizio Ferretti, Alessandro Paletto and Isabella De Meo (Italy): Facing the change: social network analysis as a tool to ensure a critical mass of representatives in polycentric network governance.
FRIDAY MAY 11th, MORNING
Plenary session 5: The contextual determinants of change (8.30-10.30)
Chair: Lukas Giessen(Germany).
- Maria Brockhaus and Monica Di Gregorio (CIFOR): The political context of REDD+: a comparative analysis.
- Laura Bouriaud, Liviu Nichiforel and Gehrard Weiss (Romania-Austria): How to articulate global and sector-based governance changes: the case of post-socialist forest policy addressing private forestry.
- Kathleen McGinley, Frederick Cubbage, Erin Sills and Steve Ruddell (USA): The intersection of hard and soft law on forests in the Americas: assessing the transition from co-existence to convergence to co-ordination.
- Godfrey Alumai, Tuukka Castren, Nalin Kishor and Ken Rosenbaum (World Bank): Improving forest governance: creating the right conditions for change.
Plenary session 6: Change as a goal or a result? Critical perspectives on forest governance and change(11.00-13.00)
Chair: Daniela Kleinschmit, Sweden.
- Maria Nijnik and Albert Nijnik (UK-Ukraine): A Q-method enquiry into forest governance and change.
- Kathrin Boehling, Monika Arzberger, Dominik Himmler and Klaus Wagner (Germany): New modes of governance in the Bavarian Alps: symbolic change with unintended consequences.
- Alain Karsenty (France): REDD, Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and “carbon rights”.
- Peter Edwards (Sweden): “Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose”.
Words of conclusion: Margaret Shannon, EFI (13.00).
Posters exhibition (from May 9th to 11th): Case Studies of Forest Policy and Management Changes
No / Title / First author(s) / Country1 / Forest Resource Management and conservation: A case study from India / S.K. Sharma / India
2 / Overview governance in Serbian protected areas / Radovan Nevenić / Serbia
3 / Forest policy consolidation in Ukraine / Liubov Poliakova / Ukraine
4 / Judicial activism-a potent agent of change in forest policy & governance imperatives in India / R.S. Jasrotia / India
5 / Beyond forest governance: Focus on tropical forest land use change in the context of land governance in Kibaale District, Uganda / Bruce Rukundo / Germany
6 / Evaluation of public expenditure in the Piedmont forestry sector through the cost analysis of regional working teams and several measures of the rural development plan / Filippo Brun / Italia
7 / Rethinking regulatory barriers to communities and smallholders in Asia earning their living from timber / David Gritten / Thailand
8 / Innovation governance in forestry in R. Macedonia / Vladimir Stojanovski / Austria
9 / Enhancing governance and quality of forest management in Mediterranean protected areas: Case study of the MED Qualigouv Project / David Gasc / France
10 / Adaptation strategies of Tribals in Western Ghat (India) and their age-old wisdom in climate change indicators / Joseph Sebastian Paimpillil / India
11 / Associations of non-state forest owners as a new phenomenon after the restitution process in Central Eastern Europe / Zuzana Sarvašová / Slovakia
12 / Structural changes of state forest enterprises in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Serbia / Diana Mizaraite / Lithuania
13 / Ignoring a context of change: Sitka Spruce and the atom bomb (or how British foresters refused to worry about the bomb) / Alec Dauncey / United Kingdom
14 / Development and implementation of a global forest governance research agenda / John Hudson / Finland
15 / Systemic tools and actors empowerment: The hold up of territory charters by the forest-owning communes in France / Christophe Chauvin / France
16 / Name of the game? Assessing the conceptual complexities of global forest governance / Olli Saastamoinen / Finland
17 / Towards modern governance in forestry and forest policy development in Ukraine / Ihor Soloviy / Ukraine
18 / Promoting community-based natural resources management in Central Italy / Matteo Vizzarri / Italy
19 / Policy directions for formulating governance of non-wood forest product clusters in Korea / Hyun Deok Seok / Korea
20 / Decentralisation of the administration and management function in the forest sector of Federation B-H in the context of forest governance / Sabina Delić / B-H
21 / Governance processes of sustainable forest management: From core markets to resource peripheries / Moritz Albrecht / Finland
22 / Comparing and contrasting the role of ecosystem services in forests of developing, emerging and developed countries: critical perspectives on forest governance and change / Vitalie Gulca / Belarus
23 / Communication and governance agenda in urban forestry planning in Macedonia
Case study: urban forestry in municipality Skopje / Makedonka Stojanovska / Macedonia
24 / Analysis of the recently enacted law for the protection of native forests in Argentina / Clara María Minaverry / Argentina
25 / Changes in Serbian forestry sector and their effects on private forests ownership / Dragan Nonić / Serbia
26 / Negotiation on a legally binding agreement of forests in the Pan-European Region – challenge for the Europe? / Katerina Ventrubova / Czech
27 / The notion of governance in the new forest regime of Quebec (Canada) / Luc Bouthillier / Canada
28 / Conflict of rights – a gap between governance and management / Samajder Papia / India
29 / Sustainable forest management: challenges under a changing climate and environment in the Western Ghats mountain forests / K. Shadananan Nair / India
30 / Investment appraisal in poplar plantations in Serbia and its relations with governance in practice / Ljiljana Keča / Serbia
31 / Role of NGO`s in the implementation of the Habitats Directive / Marko Lovrić / Croatia
32 / Reforestation and erosion control induced externalities investments: the case of Balikesir in Turkey / Mustafa Çetin / Turkey
33 / What has changed and not changed in forest policy and governance: a case study of forestry sector institutional reforms programme in NWFP, Pakistan / Alamgir Khan Gandapur / Pakistan
The authors of the papers for plenary sessions are kindly requested to send their Power Point presentations via email by March 31st the latest. The organizers cannot guaranty to keep the presentations in the program for those who have not sent these in time. Please limit your presentation time up to 15 minutes maximum.
The authors of the posters are kindly requested to sendthe final poster’s version in e-form (pdf) via email by March 31st the latest. The authors are also requested to print the posters and bring the printed copy with them. The format of the poster has to be A0 (118,9 cm X 84,1 cm)
For further information please contact local organizers at the Faculty of Forestry University of Sarajevo:
Mersudin Avdibegović ()
Bruno Marić ()
Amila Brajić ().
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