Regional governance in rural development programmes – which role for forestry?

Autorzy

  • Lukas Giessen Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, University of Goettingen
    Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073 Goettingen, Germany
    tel. +49 0 551 39 0
    e-mail: lgiesse@uni-goettingen.de

Abstract

Rural development policies lately take an inter-sectoral area-based approach. This turn raises questions relating to governance on the one hand and issues relating to the participation of different sectors therein on the other. In this paper I present a case study from Germany, focussing on three area-based rural development funding programmes, two temporary pilot programmes and a mainstream scheme. The concept of regional governance is shown to play a crucial role in the implementation of pilot programmes, while mainstream policy only partly is affected. Forestry as a sector was found to only play a minor role in such processes of regional governance. This paper reveals sector – internal as well as – external causes of this phenomenon and closed with conclusions on how to (sector-internally and – externally) enhance forestry participation to area-based rural development programmes.

DOI
Source Folia Forestalia Polonica, Series A – Forestry
Print ISSN 0071-6677
Online ISSN
2199-5907
Type of article
review article
Original title
Regional governance in rural development programmes – which role for forestry?
Publisher The Committee on Forestry Sciences and Wood Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Forest Research Institute in Sekocin Stary
Date 20/03/2009

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