International Forest Governance & Multilateralism Research Group
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Group Leader:
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Dr. Sarah Burns
Senior researcher
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS
Forests have become an important issue in international politics mainly since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, when a growing number of international policies and regimes, aimed at global forest governance, evolved into what can be described as an international forest regime complex (IFRC) (Humphreys 2006, Giessen 2013, Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco et al. 2019, Sotirov et al. 2020). While formally designed to constrain or modify the external behavior of states, the IFRC attempts to influence domestic practices, policies and policy-making processes (Bernstein and Cashore 2012). At the core of the IFRC lays the issue of tropical deforestation and degradation (Humphreys 1999, 2018), around which a complex set of institutional elements from multiple policy sectors, including trade, environment, human rights, industry, forestry and agriculture, developed (Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco et al. 2019). This complexity in global forest governance arrangements matches the complexity at the domestic level with whom they interact. As a result, forest governance is exercised by complex polycentric policy networks, involving state and non-state actors from the international, national and sub-national levels, stemming from different policy sectors (Kleinschmit et al. 2018, Maryudi et al. 2018, Di Gregorio et al. 2019).
Against this background this research group aims at:
- Analysing the interplay of global & regional forest regimes and explaining their forest policies.
- Analysing and explaining the foreign forest policies of selected countries.
At the interface between international and domestic levels, this research groups brings together international relations and bureaucratic politics combining qualitative and quantitative methods.
Team
Doctoral Candidates
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Doctoral Candidate (Colombia)
NameGabriela Huidobro Jáuregui M.Sc.
Research Assistant
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Professur für Tropische und Internationale Forstwirtschaft
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Stöckhardt-Bau, Room 11 Pienner Str. 23
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Doctoral Candidate (Peru)
NameFredy David Polo M.Sc.
Research Assistant
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Doctoral Candidate (Brazil)
NameAna Alice de Oliviera Tavares M.Sc.
Research Assistant
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Professur für Tropische und Internationale Forstwirtschaft
Visiting address:
Stöckhardt-Bau,
Gebäude-Nr.: 6353, room 11
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01737 Tharandt
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Doctoral Candidate (Germany)
NameDominic Ahrens M.Sc.
Research Assistant
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- Rocio Garcia (IRNAD – CONICET – Argentina)
- Julian Mijailoff (LISEA – CONICET – Argentina)
Ongoing projects
- Interplay of Regional Forest Regimes: combining qualitative & quantitative insights on regional powers (2021-2027)
Funded by DFG - Comparative analysis of wildfire policies across South American and European countries (2023-2025).
By Gabriela Huidobro.
Funded by Sächsische Landesstipendium - Brazil's foreign policy towards international sustainability regimes (2023 - 2025).
By Ana Alice de Oliveira Tavares.
Funded by Maria Reiche Fellowship - TU Dresden – Graduate Academy - Analysing and governing trade-offs and conflicting interests among SDGs in forest landscapes (2022-2025)
By Dominic Ahrens
Funded by TU Dresden
Past projects
- Foreign forest policies: federalism, salience and power for comparing policy issue networks (2021-2023). Funded by Maria Reiche Fellowship - TU Dresden – Graduate Academy
- Forest policy in Europe: Interplay between the EU and Forest Europe (2021-2024). By Fredy Polo Villanueva, TU Dresden, Germany. Funded by TU Dresden, Germany.
- Land-use dynamics and scenario development in a Protected Area of the Andean Region, Patagonia (2019-2025).
By Rocio M. Garcia, National University of La Plata, Argentina.
Funded by CONICET, Argentina. - The development of plantation forestry: an analysis of the socio-political factors behind its expansion in the Mesopotamian region of Argentina and Uruguay (2019-2025).
By Julián D. Mijailoff, National University of La Plata, Argentina.
Funded by CONICET, Argentina.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
https://www.researchgate.net/lab/INTERNATIONAL-FOREST-GOVERNANCE-MULTILATERALISM-RESEARCH-GROUP-Sarah-L-Burns
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