Institutional and actor-oriented factors influencing timber legality in selected Western Balkan countries: Multiple case study of Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

IF 4 2区 农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Maja Radosavljević , Todora Rogelja , Mauro Masiero , Dragan Čomić , Branko Glavonjić , Davide Pettenella
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This paper investigates timber legality issues in the Western Balkans by examining the transposition of national policy frameworks in five Western Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Srpska, BH) with the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) requirements. The study uses a multiple-embedded case study design to investigate national policies and regulations on preventing and tackling illegal logging and those dealing with the trade in timber and timber products. A qualitative content analysis of retrieved documents was conducted to check the extent to which EUTR requirements are covered. Interviews with 36 key actors across selected countries were conducted to analyse their perceptions of the EUTR and the recently approved European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), focusing on awareness, transparency, information flow, resources, and challenges of ensuring timber legality. The study also distinguished institutional and actor-oriented factors influencing the transposition of EUTR and forthcoming EUDR requirements into national policies and forest management practices. The contribution offers a comparative gap analysis of EU requirements' incorporation within targeted countries' national policy frameworks and an overview of common and opposing perceptions on timber legality and legitimate forestry practices among key stakeholders in five Western Balkan countries.

影响部分西巴尔干国家木材合法性的制度和行为者因素:克罗地亚、黑山、塞尔维亚、斯洛文尼亚和塞族共和国(波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那)的多重案例研究
本文通过研究五个西巴尔干国家(斯洛文尼亚、克罗地亚、塞尔维亚、黑山和斯普斯卡共和国,波黑)的国家政策框架与《欧盟木材管理条例》(EUTR)要求的转换情况,对西巴尔干地区的木材合法性问题进行了调查。本研究采用多重嵌入式案例研究设计,调查有关预防和打击非法伐木以及木材和木材产品贸易的国家政策和法规。对检索到的文件进行了定性内容分析,以检查EUTR要求的覆盖范围。对选定国家的 36 名主要参与者进行了访谈,分析他们对欧盟木材贸易条例和最近批准的欧盟森林砍伐条例 (EUDR) 的看法,重点关注确保木材合法性的意识、透明度、信息流、资源和挑战。研究还区分了影响将《欧盟木材贸易条例》和即将批准的《欧盟森林砍伐条例》的要求转化为国家政策和森林管理实践的制度和行为因素。报告对欧盟要求纳入目标国家国家政策框架的情况进行了比较差距分析,并概述了五个西巴尔干国家的主要利益相关者对木材合法性和合法林业实践的共同看法和对立看法。
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Forest Policy and Economics
Forest Policy and Economics 农林科学-林学
CiteScore
9.00
自引率
7.50%
发文量
148
审稿时长
21.9 weeks
期刊介绍: Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
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