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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Wellstead, Adam M.; Howlett, Michael; Rayner, Jeremy |
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Journal:
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Ecology and Society |
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Volume:
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18 |
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Date:
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2013 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9152
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Forestry
Global Commons |
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Subject(s):
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climate change
forestry
governance and politics
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Abstract:
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"Efforts to develop extensive forest-based climate change vulnerability assessments have informed proposed management and policy options intended to promote improved on-the-ground policy outcomes. These assessments are derived from a rich vulnerability literature and are helpful in modeling complex ecosystem interactions, yet their policy relevance and impact has been limited. We argue this is due to structural-functional logic underpinning these assessments in which governance is treated as a procedural 'black box' and policy-making as an undifferentiated and unproblematic output of a political system responding to input changes and/or system prerequisites. Like an earlier generation of systems or cybernetic thinking about political processes, the focus in these assessments on macro system-level variables and relationships fails to account for the multi-level or polycentric nature of governance and the possibility of policy processes resulting in the nonperformance of critical tasks."
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