“I’ll be back”: the emergence of recentralized forest devolution in the southern provinces of China

IF 3.6 2区 社会学 Q1 ECOLOGY
Wenyuan Liang, Bas Arts, Jiayun Dong, Lingchao Li, Jinlong Liu
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Abstract

Although forest devolution, as a type of decentralization, is a high priority in the policy agendas of developing countries, recentralization has also occurred. In this paper, we focus on emerging recentralization within the devolution process of Collective Forest Tenure Reform (CFTR) in China’s southern provinces and conceptualize this process as “recentralized forest devolution.” In this paper, we update a key framework for analyzing decentralization and recentralization in governance processes based on the “policy arrangement approach.” Case studies were conducted in four counties of the Fujian and Yunnan provinces by tracing governance dynamics from 2001 to 2019. Our study found that the central government has tightened upward accountability and recentralized power for environmental conservation since 2012 under the discourse of “Ecological Civilization.” At the local level, recentralized forest devolution was expressed in terms of the restricted timber harvest levels for the purposes of environmental conservation. Therefore, forest devolution could be more vulnerable than expected by researchers and potentially interwoven with recentralization processes. Discourses, actors, property rights, and power are, therefore, considered to be interwoven in the complex dynamics of decentralization and recentralization.

The post “I’ll be back”: the emergence of recentralized forest devolution in the southern provinces of China first appeared on Ecology & Society.

"我会回来的":中国南方各省出现的森林权力下放现象
尽管作为权力下放的一种类型,森林权力下放是发展中国家政策议程中的重中之重,但也出现了权力再集中的情况。在本文中,我们重点关注中国南方省份集体林权制度改革(CFTR)权力下放过程中出现的再分权,并将这一过程概念化为“再分权的森林权力下放”。在本文中,我们基于“政策安排方法,更新了分析治理过程中权力下放和再分权的关键框架”,通过追踪2001年至2019年的治理动态,在福建和云南两省的四个县开展了案例研究。我们的研究发现,自 2012 年以来,中央政府在 “生态文明 "的论述下,加强了对环境保护的问责和权力下放。因此,森林权力下放可能比研究人员预期的更加脆弱,并可能与权力下放进程交织在一起。因此,在权力下放和权力再集中的复杂动态中,话语、行动者、产权和权力被认为是相互交织的。
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Ecology and Society
Ecology and Society 环境科学-生态学
CiteScore
6.20
自引率
4.90%
发文量
109
审稿时长
3 months
期刊介绍: Ecology and Society is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Manuscript submission, peer review, and publication are all handled on the Internet. Software developed for the journal automates all clerical steps during peer review, facilitates a double-blind peer review process, and allows authors and editors to follow the progress of peer review on the Internet. As articles are accepted, they are published in an "Issue in Progress." At four month intervals the Issue-in-Progress is declared a New Issue, and subscribers receive the Table of Contents of the issue via email. Our turn-around time (submission to publication) averages around 350 days. We encourage publication of special features. Special features are comprised of a set of manuscripts that address a single theme, and include an introductory and summary manuscript. The individual contributions are published in regular issues, and the special feature manuscripts are linked through a table of contents and announced on the journal''s main page. The journal seeks papers that are novel, integrative and written in a way that is accessible to a wide audience that includes an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystems on which human wellbeing ultimately depends.
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