Hogl, K. 2000. The Austrian domestic forest policy community
in change? Impacts of the globalisation and Europeanisation of
forest politics. Forest Policy and Economics 1(1): 3-13. (In English).
Abstract: The interest intermediation system has always
attracted the attention of forest policy scientists. However,
research on this subject has focused on the national level, despite
the fact that forest issues are increasingly prominent on international
and European agendas, both in the EU and the Pan-European Process
on the Protection of Forests in Europe. Accordingly, the impacts
of the globalisation and Europeanisation of forest policy and
the peculiarities of multi-level policy processes have not been
sufficiently taken into account. This article examines how international
forest politics and the integration of national actors in the
EU multi-level system of joint decision-making affect national
actor constellations. To this end, I draw on the advocacy coalition
framework to depict the Austrian forest policy network and its
actors' dispute on forest certification, as well as on hypotheses
and empirical results of multi-level governance scholars and on
my own preliminary results to investigate the likely effects of
the evolving EU forest policy. The discussion provides some hypotheses
and indications that national forest policy networks might be
subject to significant change.
Keywords: Forest policy, Advocacy coalitions, Multi-level
governance, EU forest politics, Austria.
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