An Institutional Analysis and Reconfiguration Framework for Sustainability Research on Post-Transition Forestry—A Focus on Ukraine

Sustainability

Simo Sarkki¹  Albert Nijnik²  Stanislava Brnkaľáková³  Tatiana Kluvánková³  Mariana Melnykovych⁴  Carla Barlagne⁵  Maria Nijnik⁵  David Miller⁵  Igor Fizyk⁶  Serhiy Kopiy⁶  Leonid Kopiy⁶ 

[1] Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, FI-90014 Linnanmaa, Finland;Environmental Network Ltd., Aboyne AB34 5BR, UK;SlovakGlobe, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak University of Technology, Vazovova 5, 81243 Bratislava, Slovakia;Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK;Ukrainian National Forestry University, Gen. Chuprynky Str., 103, 79057 Lviv, Ukraine;

关键词: sustainability;    action arena;    institutional changes;    forest governance;    stakeholder engagement;    social practices;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su13084360

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we elaborate an Institutional Analysis and Reconfiguration Framework centered around the ‘action arena’ theoretical approach. We develop this framework to analyze institutional reconfiguration to enhance sustainability, and operationalize it using research methods which focus on documentation of the institutional contexts through an extensive literature review and interviews of experts in forest policy. We apply the Institutional Analysis and Reconfiguration Framework to examine forestry institutions, address forest governance, and investigate their effect on socio-economic and environmental performances in forestry of Ukraine. The paper draws on the state of affairs in post-transition forestry, its difficulties, and new prospects for economic and institutional reforms. We examine challenges and opportunities in forestry and suggest key remedies and prospective ways forward. Results show that a combination of path dependency with the rigidity of institutions and a slow pace of economic and political reforms is the major obstacle to implementing decisions regarding sustainable forest policy. A reconfiguration of social practices is required, as well as the development of capabilities and awareness raising amongst relevant stakeholders, to realize the problems, envision alternative futures, challenge existing institutions, shift power relations and create new norms, rules, and decision-making arrangements. The way towards sustainability in forestry largely goes through changing institutions, and a human dimension of institutional changes reflected in the uptake of social innovation.

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