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  • Collaborative governance versus constitutional politics: decision rules for sustainability from Australia's South East Queensland forest agreement

    Author(s)
    Brown, AJ
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Brown, A J J.
    Year published
    2002
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    Abstract
    Australia's Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) (1995-2000) involved a national program of bioregional assessment for native forest conservation and timber resource management. Eleven assessments covering 46 million ha or 6% of Australia, resulted in nine agreements (RFAs) between federal and state governments. While groundbreaking in some respects, however, the program had significant governance problems. Its main outcomes-intergovernmental agreements-were intended to overcome rather than resolve competing bodies of public opinion, and hence always risked entrenching rather than addressing underlying policy conflicts. This ...
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    Australia's Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) (1995-2000) involved a national program of bioregional assessment for native forest conservation and timber resource management. Eleven assessments covering 46 million ha or 6% of Australia, resulted in nine agreements (RFAs) between federal and state governments. While groundbreaking in some respects, however, the program had significant governance problems. Its main outcomes-intergovernmental agreements-were intended to overcome rather than resolve competing bodies of public opinion, and hence always risked entrenching rather than addressing underlying policy conflicts. This article reviews the problems inherent in the official approach, by contrasting it with the outcome reached in the major forest assessment not translated into an RFA. In September 1999, the South East Queensland assessment resulted in an agreement between lead timber production interests, key environmental NGOs and the state government, although rejected by the national government. Unique in Australia and rare in the world, this state-stakeholder agreement suggests the emergence of new decision rules for long-term resolution of biodiversity and natural resource conflicts. Consistently with other case studies, these centre on a fresh approach to integration of conflicting values, and the need for governments to accept more collaborative roles in environmental governance.
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    Journal Title
    Environmental Science and Policy
    Volume
    5
    Publisher URI
    http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/601264/description#description
    Copyright Statement
    © 2002 Elsevier : Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher : This journal is available online - use hypertext links.
    Subject
    Environmental Sciences
    Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/6517
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