Sotirov Metodi, Winkel Georg, Eckerberg Katarina
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Institute of Environmental Social Sciences, Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
Governance Programme Bonn, European Forest Institute, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113, Bonn, Germany.
Ambio. 2021 Dec;50(12):2153-2167. doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01644-5. Epub 2021 Oct 10.
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and 73 policy documents spanning a 20-year timeframe, we examine the evolution of coalitional forest politics in Europe. We find that the basic line-up has remained stable: an environmental coalition supporting EU environmental forest policy integration and a forest sector coalition mostly opposing it. Still, strategic alliances across these coalitions have occurred for specific policy issues which have resulted in a gradual establishment of an EU environmental forest policy. We conclude with discussion of our findings and provide suggestions for further research.
欧洲森林政策的制定受到欧洲一体化进程的影响，但各国之间存在明显的意识形态分歧和不同利益。本文聚焦于关键环境森林问题的联盟政治：生物多样性保护、木材合法性和气候保护政策。结合倡导联盟框架和联盟转移理论，并基于对186多名关键信息提供者的访谈以及跨越20年时间框架的73份政策文件，我们研究了欧洲联盟森林政治的演变。我们发现基本格局保持稳定：一个支持欧盟环境森林政策一体化的环境联盟和一个大多反对该政策的森林部门联盟。不过，针对特定政策问题，这些联盟之间形成了战略联盟，这导致了欧盟环境森林政策的逐步确立。我们最后讨论了研究结果，并为进一步研究提供了建议。
