Forest and Nature Conservation Policy

Chair Group (FNP),

Wageningen UR, The Netherlands

FNP: Objects

� Forests & forestry

� Nature & biodiversity

� (Forested) Landscapes

Forest and Nature Conservation Policy / Staff

Bas Arts.Professor

Freerk WiersumAssoc. Professor

Community / social Forestry

Marjanke HoogstraAss. Professor

Business Management

Esther TurnhoutAss. Professor

Policy analysis and science studies

Mariëlle vd. ZouwenAss. ProfessorPolitical and

policy sciences

Birgit ElandsAss. Professor

Tourism Policy and management

Barbara Kolijn,Secretary

Jim van LaarResearch and

Teaching assistant

Carla van Zwaaij,Administrator

Marleen BuizerPost#doc researcher

Sonja van der ArendPost#doc researcher

Forest and Nature Conservation Policy / PhD students

Josiah KataniPurabi BoseJelle BehagelEvelien Verbij

Intersector#al coordination

Retno Maryani

Dezentrali#zation

Ramona van Marwijk

Recreation Networks

Jessica de Koning

Institutions Amazon Farmers

Arjen Buijs

Nature images

Severine van Bommel

Role of experts

Innocent BabiliHenk WillemsTeshale Wolde Habebo

Charlotte Benneker

Community baste mgt

Rikke Arnouts

Modes of governance

Focus: Policy

� Policy = plans & processes to address public issues

� FNP ≠ classical, ‘government#centered’approach

� FNP = governance + people#centered approach

Governance#centered approach

People#centered approach

� (1) Participation in policy making

� (2) Community involvement in forest management (CIFM)

� Europe and tropics

� (3) Social valuation of forests and nature

� Values, beliefs, narratives

FNP research themes (North)

� New modes of governancein FNP (national, European, global)

� Time and uncertainty in forest management and planning (NL, G, USA)

� Recreation & nature images (NL)

� The (changing) role of experts / science in FNP

FNP research themes (South)

� Community forestry (Amazon region)

� Decentralization of forest policy (Bolivia, Indonesia)

� Impact of global standardson local livelihoods

� Competing claims on forestresources in Brazil, Ghana and Indonesia

Teaching

� BSc and MSc Forest and Nature Conservation

� Specialization A: Policy

� Valuation, conservation and use of natural resources

� Policy design, implementation, evaluation

� Dynamics between people, discourses and institutions

� Glocalization and governance

International collaboration

� CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research

� Tropenbos International

� Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia

� EU R&D programme on tropical forestry

� Amazon region, Ethiopia

� Universities and research institutes in variouscountries

� Bolivia, Ethiopia, India, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Thank you

For more information

see www.fnp.wur.nl© Wageningen UR