Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance": A Global Assessment Report Prepared by the Global Forest Expert Panel on the International Forest Regime
A new study assessing international efforts to improve forest governance was issued together with a policy brief on 24 January 2011 by the Global Forest Expert Panel on International Forest Regime. It suggests among other things that global efforts have too often ignored local needs and failed to address the fact that deforestation is usually caused by economic pressures from outside the forests. The detailed results of the work of the expert panel, which was constituted under the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and coordinated by IUFRO, will be presented to the Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) on 31 January 2011 as part of the launch of the International Year of Forests. Mapping the core actors and issues defining international forest governance ; Coordinating lead author: Constance L. McDermott; Lead authors: David Humphreys, Christoph Wildburger and Peter Wood; Contributing authors: Emmanuel Marfo (African regional instruments), Pablo Pacheco (Latin American regional instruments) and Yurdi Yasmi (Asia-Pacific regional instruments); Core components of the international forest regime complex ; Coordinating lead author: Peter Glück; Lead authors: Arild Angelsen, Marie Appelstrand, Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Graeme Auld and Karl Hogl ; Contributing authors: David Humphreys and Christoph Wildburger ; Discourses, actors and instruments in international forest governance ; Coordinating lead author: Bas Arts ; Lead authors: Marie Appelstrand, Daniela Kleinschmit, Helga Pülzl and Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers; Contributing authors: Richard Eba’a Atyi, Thomas Enters, Kathleen McGinley and Yurdi Yasmi; Forests and sustainability ; Coordinating lead author: Deborah Davenport; Lead authors: Janette Bulkan, Reem Hajjar and Patrick Hardcastle; Contributing authors: Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Richard Eba’a Atyi, David Humphreys and Ahmad Maryudi ; Overcoming the challenges to integration: embracing complexity in forest policy design through multi-level governance ; Coordinating lead author: Michael Howlett; Lead author: Jeremy Rayner; Contributing authors: Daniela Goehler, Eva Heidbreder, Frederic Perron-Welch, Olivier Rukundo,Patrick Verkooijen and Christoph Wildburger; Examination of the influences of global forest governance arrangements at the domestic level . ; Coordinating lead authors: Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore; Lead authors: Richard Eba’a Atyi, Ahmad Maryudi and Kathleen McGinley; Contributing authors: Tim Cadman, Lars Gulbrandsen, Daniela Goehler, Karl Hogl,David Humphreys, Shashi Kant, Robert Kozak, Kelly Levin, Constance McDermott, Mark Purdon,Irene Scher, Michael W. Stone, Luca Tacconi and Yurdi Yasmi;
