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Piloting a more inclusive governance innovation strategy for forest ecosystem services management in Primiero, Italy

  • 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 andForests 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.show moreshow less

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Author:Francesca Bussola, Enzo Falco, Ewert Aukes, Peter Stegmaier, Stefan SorgeORCiD, Marco Ciolli, Caterina Gagliano, Davide Geneletti
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-2531
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101380
Parent Title (English):Ecosystem Services
Publisher:Elsevier
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2021
Date of first Publication:2021/11/15
Publishing Institution:Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde
Release Date:2022/07/06
Tag:Governance innovation; Managing governance setbacks; Multifunctional forest management; Multiple Streams Approach; Participation; Policy entrepreneurship
Volume:52
Article Number:101380
Page Number:17
Institutions / Departments:Fachbereich Landschaftsnutzung und Naturschutz
open_access (DINI-Set):open_access
University Bibliography:University Bibliography
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Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
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