Thursday 16 July 2009

1-2pm, in FORESTRY LECTURE THEATRE, Forestry building 48

Regulating forestry: results and implications of a global comparison of forest practices

Professor Peter Kanowski, Fenner School of Environment & Society, ANU
Professor Ben Cashore, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University

Abstract

Forest practices systems are a principal means by which forest policies are translated into forest management outcomes in production forests. However, there are few systematic comparative studies of forest practices across jurisdictions, nor analyses of their relationship to policies intended to protect forest values. This seminar describes a global study, led by our colleague Dr Connie McDermott, which compares forest practice requirements for natural forests in 20 countries, and plantation forests in the subset of countries in which plantations are important, against a standard set of criteria. Sub-national regimes were assessed for a sample of the countries; a total of 38 jurisdictions were included. In addition to the outcomes of the comparative study itself, we are seeking to draw informative conclusions about the policy styles represented by different forest practices systems, how they treat different forest types and tenures, and establish the basis for subsequent work which might also address the effectiveness of different policy and practice approaches.

This seminar updates one reporting earlier results of the same study which Peter Kanowski gave in March 2008.

The Fenner School Seminar Series is held in the Forestry Lecture Theatre, Forestry Building 48, Linnaeus Way (comes off Daley Road), ANU (Acton) campus, ACT

The seminar will start at 13:00 and finish at 14:00