Forest Policy Analysis - Softcover

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"Max Krott verfolgt ... das Ziel, die Leserschaft mit einer Analyse der Forstpolitik vertraut zu machen. Das Buch sollte eine Einführung in die Forstpolitik in Europa aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive darstellen ... Krott versucht, eine Brücke zwischen Politik- und Forstwissenschaften zu schlagen. ... Der Autor richtet ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Akteure und Instrumente der Forstpolitik ... Dabei diskutiert er insbesondere die Rolle des Staates in der Forstwirtschaft ... Zusammenfassend handelt es sich um eine handliche Darstellung wesentlicher Aspekte der Forstpolitik Deutschlands ..."

(TIANA A. MOSER, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 2007, Vol. 158, Issue 3-4, S. 74)

The forest is within the focus of many old, many new and constantly changing interests of economy, society and politics. Concepts for sustained forests can achieve impact in practice only as far as they gain support of society and politics. Forest Policy Analysis advices how to mobilize support in order to make forest policy relevant.

This book gives an introduction in the methodology of social sciences. It is a guideline for all those who are interested in the use and protection of the forest. It shows how to identifying political options for solving issues of the forest. The book builds a bridge between the problems concerning forests to the political process.

Professor Max Krott is director of the Institute for Forest Policy and Nature Conservation at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He is well experienced in forest policy throughout the whole of Europe. He explores the users of the forest and stakeholders comprised of forest owners, associations, political parties, government and administration. The analysis of the informational, economic and regulatory policy instruments covers the formal as well as the informal processes of policy formulation and implementation. The theory based results are highly relevant for forest policy in all European countries whereas the examples are drawn from Germany.