Unraveling Forest Practice Policies in China: Subnational Comparisons through Policy Prescriptiveness Framework

Autor: Yimin Fu, Yixian Sun, Jinlong Liu, Benjamin William Cashore, Wenyuan Liang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Forests, Vol 15, Iss 6, p 927 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1999-4907
DOI: 10.3390/f15060927
Popis: Forest policy classification is critical to conducting comparisons and understanding performance variations across cases. Chinese-style forest policy has been in a black box to many outsiders, who tend to assume a decentralization policy model due to a great diversity of forest and socio-economic conditions in China. To test this hypothesis, we used the policy prescriptiveness framework to classify on-the-ground forest practice policies in central government and eight provinces, covering extensive territorial variations. We found that the eight subnational cases that implemented local policies appeared to be consistent with central policies, but there were also subtle differences within them. Our findings show that China utilized centralized and top-down policy models.
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