TY - JOUR A1 - Bussola, Francesca A1 - Falco, Enzo A1 - Aukes, Ewert A1 - Stegmaier, Peter A1 - Sorge, Stefan A1 - Ciolli, Marco A1 - Gagliano, Caterina A1 - Geneletti, Davide T1 - Piloting a more inclusive governance innovation strategy for forest ecosystem services management in Primiero, Italy JF - Ecosystem Services N2 - Forests are increasingly recognized for their role, importance and multifunctionality in terms of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services they provide. Even if timber production remains the most economically valuable provisioning service in Primiero, the importance of and need for multifunctionality of forests is acknowledged. This article analyses the development of Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) governance innovation strategies by the Provincial Forest Agency as a policy entrepreneur in the area of Primiero, in Trentino, northeast of Italy. Based on detailed case study material, we create the heuristic of Kingdon’s three streams model in order to reconstruct the development of and negotiations around the introduction of innovative approaches to the problem, policy and politics levels and to identify the chosen or missed windows of opportunity to deliver innovation in FES management. Findings show that the main issues perceived by the local stakeholders concern loss of biodiversity, of cultural identity and historical landscape values. The policy-entrepreneurial initiatives undertaken by the Forest Agency represent a governance mix of direct project execution, financial incentives, organisational incentives and information-based activities. The results highlight its efforts to move beyond the traditional top-down approach based on widely available public funds and towards coordination and collaborations among stakeholders, contribution of private investments, bureaucracy simplification and interconnection between participatory and institutional processes. KW - Policy entrepreneurship KW - Participation KW - Governance innovation KW - Managing governance setbacks KW - Multifunctional forest management KW - Multiple Streams Approach Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-2531 VL - 52 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Stefan A1 - Mann, Carsten A1 - Schleyer, Christian A1 - Loft, Lasse A1 - Spacek, Martin A1 - Hernández-Morcillo, Mónica A1 - Kluvankova, Tatiana T1 - Understanding dynamics of forest ecosystem services governance: A socio-ecological-technical-analytical framework JF - Ecosystem Services N2 - Little is known about the emergence and development of novel governance approaches for forest ecosystem services provision, what drives them, and how they can be fostered. Existing frameworks often deal with single aspects of resource management and thus fail to assess processes, multi-level influences, and interacting dimensions and factors in a system-based understanding. In this article, we introduce the conceptual foundation and an empirical application of an adapted Social-Ecological System framework with additional elements that builds on the idea of complex and interlinked social-ecological-technical-forestry-innovation systems that allows for the identification of key factors for revealing forest ecosystem services dynamics to understand the emergence and development of such governance innovations. The development and testing of the framework was based on six case studies for knowledge co-creation. To showcase its application, two governance innovations were examined: a voluntary carbon market payment scheme in Germany and a network approach for forest-pasture management in Italy. The application of the framework reveals required adaptations to improve innovation by systematically unpacking the system dimensions and identifying fostering and hindering factors and their interdependencies. We highlight the output of a sound system-based information basis that allows for purposeful innovation conditioning by policy makers, practitioners, and other related actors. KW - Social-ecological systems; Governance innovations; Socio-ecological-technical forestry systems; Forest management; Environmental governance; Compensation schemes; Rural development Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-4771 SN - 2212-0416 IS - 55 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Loft, Lasse A1 - Schleyer, Christian A1 - Klingler, Michael A1 - Kister, Jutta A1 - Zoll, Felix A1 - Stegmaier, Peter A1 - Aukes, Ewert A1 - Sorge, Stefan A1 - Mann, Carsten T1 - The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes JF - Ecosystem Services N2 - In the past decades, novel governance and management approaches that support the provision of non-marketable Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) have emerged throughout Europe. However, it remains unclear under which circumstances such modes of FES governance develop and which sets of social-ecological parameters, management formats, and interests enable or constrain these processes. In this paper, we aim to shed light on the development processes of such governance innovations. We combine approaches from natural resource governance with insights from innovation studies to identify the close interrelations between designing governance approaches and the inherent innovation dynamics in their development. Empirically, we apply an adapted innovation journey approach to reconstruct the development history of four governance innovations in Europe. We analyse key turning points and crucial influencing factors of the innovation processes, focussing on interests, resources, and values of actors, biophysical and technical conditions of the forest resource systems, institutions and governance arrangements, and features of the innovation management. Our findings show that often individual actors became mainstays of the innovation developments, whereas governmental organisations took up an important role in managing the innovation development process, without being the main change agents. Further, in cases with a reliable legal environment and existing funding schemes innovation development was fostered effectively. While various natural disturbances negatively impacted upon innovation development, most crisis-related interruptions provided an opportunity for radically changing pathways. We conclude that to cope with these uncertain development dynamics, conditions for innovation development need to be created that allow for continuous monitoring and adaptation of innovation processes along their development. For future governance innovation development processes, this calls for the setup of protected spaces that allow for stakeholder participation and open deliberation of interests and expectations regarding FES provisioning as preconditions for governance co-design work based on mutual learning and reflection. KW - Forest policy KW - Forest management KW - Ecosystem services KW - Governance KW - Constructive innovation assessment KW - Innovation journeys KW - EU Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-7457 SN - 2212-0416 VL - 58 PB - Elsevier ER -