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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.11.006
	Divide and conquer-Discursive agency in the politics of illegal logging in the United States
	Leipold S.; Winkel G.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	36
英文摘要	In 2008 the US amended the century-old US Lacey Act to prohibit the import of illegally harvested or traded timber. Together with similar policies in the EU and Australia, this initialized a paradigm shift in global forest governance towards a legality (verification) regime that could substantially contribute to environmental and social stewardship in the forest sector. The analysis of the formation and implementation of these new policies in the US, Europe and Australia is, however, only just beginning.Based on 31 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, 19 informal conversations, more than 100 documents, and participant observation data, we analyze the policy making and implementation of the 2008 US Lacey Act amendment. Our results suggest two essential drivers for this policy change: (1) the deployment of discursive divide-and-conquer strategies and (2) a shift away from sustainability to legality, on both the international level and in the US. Based on the Discursive Agency Approach, we illustrate how carefully deployed discursive and governance strategies were crucial for building a coalition between environmentalists and parts of the wood (products) industry. This coalition was able to create a powerful storyline that muted the opposition and presented a politically attractive amendment proposal. We further show how these strategies have significant effects on the perception of the amended Lacey Act and its implementation. During implementation, coalitions as well as discursive and governance strategies shifted substantially but were still determined by the pre-amendment policy discourse. We conclude by exploring the importance of our findings for what we might expect from the concept of legality in global forest and environmental governance. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Discursive Agency Approach; Forest governance; Forest policy; Implementation; Lacey act; Legality verification
学科领域	environmental legislation; forestry policy; governance approach; legislative implementation; logging (timber); paradigm shift; policy implementation; policy making; stakeholder; sustainable development; European Union; forest management; global perspective; implementation process; law enforcement; legal system; perception; questionnaire survey; sustainability; Australia; Europe; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	environmental legislation; forestry policy; governance approach; legislative implementation; logging (timber); paradigm shift; policy implementation; policy making; stakeholder; sustainable development; European Union; forest management; global perspective; implementation process; law enforcement; legal system; perception; questionnaire survey; sustainability; Australia; Europe; United States
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117417
作者单位	Forest and Environmental Policy Group, Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, Freiburg i. Br., 79106, Germany; European Forest Institute, Yliopistokatu 6, Joensuu, 80100, Finland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Leipold S.,Winkel G.. Divide and conquer-Discursive agency in the politics of illegal logging in the United States[J],2016,36.
APA	Leipold S.,&Winkel G..(2016).Divide and conquer-Discursive agency in the politics of illegal logging in the United States.Global Environmental Change,36.
MLA	Leipold S.,et al."Divide and conquer-Discursive agency in the politics of illegal logging in the United States".Global Environmental Change 36(2016).