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Assessing forest governance from a ‘Triple G’ perspective: Government, governance, governmentality⁎⁎This article belongs to the Special Issue: Assessing Forest Governance

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This paper aims to assess the emergence of the concept of forest governance in the field of forest policy analysis. This assessment is mainly theoretical in nature. The various meanings and main criticisms of forest governance will be dealt with. In so doing, the paper applies the so-called ‘Triple G’ perspective (government, governance, governmentality). Firstly, the paper explains the emergence of the forest governance concept from the shortcomings of forest government, or ‘state forestry’ (overexploitation, policy failure, corruption). In a next step, it also criticises the concept of forest governance, now using a governmentality perspective. This latter view assumes that control by the state and self-governance by people go hand in hand. It thus challenges one of the key assumptions in many governance studies, namely that the state has substantially withdrawn from the forest sector and that forest politics has been relocated from the state to the market and to society.

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  • Arts, Bas, 2014. "Assessing forest governance from a ‘Triple G’ perspective: Government, governance, governmentality⁎⁎This article belongs to the Special Issue: Assessing Forest Governance," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 17-22.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:forpol:v:49:y:2014:i:c:p:17-22
    DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2014.05.008
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