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The sustainably managed forest heats up: discursive struggles over forest management and climate change in Germany
Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen
Autoren:
Winkel, G., Gleißner, J., Pistorius, T., Sotirov, M., Storch, S.
Titel:
The sustainably managed forest heats up: discursive struggles over forest management and climate change in Germany
Kurzzitat:
Winkel, G., Gleißner, J., Pistorius, T., Sotirov, M., Storch, S.: The sustainably managed forest heats up: discursive struggles over forest management and climate change in Germany Critical Policy Studies, 2011; 5:4: 361-390.
Publikationstyp:
Originalarbeiten in wissenschaftlichen
Fachzeitschriften
Abstract:
In this article, we introduce an empirical case study of the German forest policy subsystem
in order to understand how the concept of sustainable forest management has
been discursively constructed, challenged, and changed over time. As a theoretical basis,
we use an idea-based coalition approach, drawing on both the Advocacy Coalition
Framework and Hajer’s Argumentative Discourse Analysis. We show that rival coalitions
that share a certain idea of forest management have dominated German forest
policy for decades by employing different rhetorical and institutional strategies in order
to incorporate their ideas into public policy institutions. Analyzing how the issue of
climate change is discursively ‘digested’ by the actor coalitions, we find that climate
change has been incorporated into the political argumentation of both coalitions in a
manner consistent with their existing main policy ideas. Moreover, the membership of
the coalitions has remained stable. These findings allow for conclusions regarding both
our theoretical approaches and the policy subsystem’s ability to adapt forests to cope
with climate change.
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