Governance and forest landscape restoration
By: Stephanie Mansourian (CEESP member)
The workshop of “Governance and forest landscape restoration (FLR)” will be held at the World Conservation Congress, on 3 September at 5PM at the Forest Pavilion. Governance – understood as regulatory processes, mechanisms and organizations through which political actors influence environmental actions and outcomes (Lemos and Agrawal 2006) - is of prime importance to FLR. Equally the process of FLR can have repercussions on governance. The relationship between the two has been explored in a recent paper (Mansourian in press – available upon request) and will be further discussed at the Congress event.
The governance conditions that can favour or hinder such large scale forest restoration will be reviewed at this event. Proposed approaches to help better identify and understand key challenges in terms of governance will also be shared and discussed, as will lessons learnt. The role of governance factors in determining the success or failure of large scale restoration will also be considered. Case studies will be presented and discussed interactively focusing on key challenges encountered, how they were addressed and discussing how they could have been better addressed. The intention is to support practitioners working on such large scale restoration projects and programmes to incorporate governance issues in their work. "
Stephanie Mansourian (mansourian.org)
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