TY - JOUR
T1 - Piloting a more inclusive governance innovation strategy for forest ecosystem services management in Primiero, Italy
AU - Bussola, Francesca
AU - Falco, Enzo
AU - Aukes, Ewert J.
AU - Stegmaier, Peter
AU - Sorge, Stefan
AU - Ciolli, Marco
AU - Gagliano, Caterina
AU - Geneletti, Davide
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Luigi Gottardo, director of the forest district of Primiero, for supporting us with technical information concerning forestry management and Primiero's background information; the whole staff of the Forest Agency of the Autonomous Province of Trento for sharing their knowledge and expertise on the strategy and actions implemented in the realm of forestry sector; Paolo Mori, head of Compagnia delle Foreste s.r.l. for moderating the cooperation process by encouraging the discussion and managing the different activities of the workshops. The work for this paper was funded by EU Horizon 2020 project InnoForESt GA no. 763899.
Funding Information:
The work for this paper was funded by EU Horizon 2020 project InnoForESt GA no. 763899.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
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.
AB - 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 - 2022 OA procedure
KW - Participation
KW - Governance Innovation
KW - Managing governance setbacks
KW - Multifunctional forest management
KW - Multiple stream approach
KW - Policy entrepreneurship
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101380
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101380
M3 - Article
SN - 2212-0416
VL - 52
JO - Ecosystem services
JF - Ecosystem services
M1 - 101380
ER -