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First English edition of `Politikfeld - analyse Forstwirtschaft', published by Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag in 2001.
From the publisher's announcement:
Professor Max Krott, Director of the Institute of Forest Policy and Nature Conservation at the University of G#ttingen, Germany, introduces the most important political players and stakeholders, including the forest owners, the general population, forest workers and employees, forest associations and administration, as well as the media. He illustrates the political and regulatory instruments using examples in current forest policy. Forest Policy Analysis places a special emphasis on the informal processes that are indispensable in understanding practical politics. References made to current English and German-language publications on forest policy studies enable further information to be found with concern to special issues.
Professionalization Of Forest Sector Policy Making.- Interests And Conflicts In The Forest Sector.- Programs For Forest Protection And Utilization.- Forest Users: Owners, Workers and Employees, And The General Population.- Associations And Political Parties.- Government And Administration.- Informational Instruments.- Economic Instruments.- Regulatory Instruments.- Land-Use Planning.- Political System And Political Process.- References.- Index.
Professor Max Krott is director of the Institute for Forest Policy and Nature Conservation at the University of Gottingen, Germany. He is well experienced in forest policy throughout the whole of Europe. He explores the users of the forest and stakeholders comprised of forest owners, associations, political parties, government and administration. The analysis of the informational, economic and regulatory policy instruments covers the formal as well as the informal processes of policy formulation and implementation. The theory based results are highly relevant for forest policy in all European countries whereas the examples are drawn from Germany.
Aus den Rezensionen: "Max Krott verfolgt ! das Ziel, die Leserschaft mit einer Analyse der Forstpolitik vertraut zu machen. Das Buch sollte eine Einfuhrung in die Forstpolitik in Europa aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive darstellen ! Krott versucht, eine Brucke zwischen Politik- und Forstwissenschaften zu schlagen. ! Der Autor richtet ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Akteure und Instrumente der Forstpolitik ! Dabei diskutiert er insbesondere die Rolle des Staates in der Forstwirtschaft ! Zusammenfassend handelt es sich um eine handliche Darstellung wesentlicher Aspekte der Forstpolitik Deutschlands !" (TIANA A. MOSER, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen, 2007, Vol. 158, Issue 3-4, S. 74)
