Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die Waldpolitik zahlreichen neuen, auch widersprüchlichen Politikzielen ausgesetzt. Der Wald wird vom Klimawandel bedroht, zum anderen soll er wichtige Beiträge zum Klimaschutz erbringen. Dabei ist umstritten, ob eine forstliche Nutzung- oder ein Nutzungsverzicht am effektivsten zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele beiträgt. Eine ähnliche Kontroverse ist im Bereich des Schutzes der Biodiversität im Wald festzustellen. Neben diesen neuen Zielen muss der Wald weiterhin die Leistungen erbringen, die die Gesellschaft seit jeher von ihm erwartet.
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen den Politikzielen verschiedener Politikfelder in Bezug auf die Waldflächen. Dabei wird der Policy Coherence Framework erstmals auf drei Politikebenen (EU-, Bunds- und Landesebene) sowie auf mehr als zwei Politikfelder angewandt und weiterentwickelt. Aktuelle Programme wie die LULUCF-VO der Europäischen Union, Bundes- und Landeswaldprogramme, Nachhaltigkeits-, Bioökonomie- und Biodiversitätsstrategien wurden untersucht. Die Diskussion erfolgt entlang der prominentesten Zielkonflikte, wie bspw. dem Ziel, mindestens 5% der Waldfläche aus der Nutzung zu nehmen. Schließlich werden konkrete Lösungsvorschläge für einige Zielkonflikte vorgestellt und diskutiert.
Eine übersichtliche und kompakte Zusammenfassung der waldbezogenen Politikziele aus den untersuchten Programmen findet sich im Ergänzungsband. Diese mag auch der Praxis als hilfreicher Wegweiser durch die aktuellen Politikprogramme mit Waldflächenbezug dienen. / At the beginning of the 21st century, forest policy faces numerous challenges. It has to address requirements that are more in number, novelty, diversity and dispersity as likely ever before in recent history. Among the most important of these are clearly the challenges to save and pro-tect global Climate and Biodiversity. Land-use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) have been incorporated in these challenges through various binding international compacts, among them the Paris Climate Accord of 2015, the EU’s LULUCF Regulation of 2018 as well as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of 1993 and their respective national instruments of implementation, e.g. the German National Strategy on Sustainability of 2002. They all aim to maintain and augment the mitigative climate effects and biodiversity of forests. Therefore, this study sets out to determine the consequences of these new requirements for forest policy. It analyses how these various new policy goals can be reconciled and integrated without inter-fering with other standing policy targets.
Although the loss of tropical forests has long been identified to be one of the main driving forces for climate change and loss of biodiversity, the potential positive effects of global refor-estation and afforestation (including the global north) to reverse this trend and mitigate cli-mate change have only recently become a focus point of attention. This study therefore focuses on the policy goals which directly or indirectly influence the change of forest area. Starting from a national German perspective, policy goals at a European as well as the subnational, Thuringian level are included in the analysis, followig the federal structure of Germany within an ever closer politically united Europe.
This study analyses coherence among policy goals using the Policy Coherence Framework (PCF). Following this established framework, policy coherence between the three political levels (European, national, subnational) is being investigated as “vertical coherence”. Coherence be-tween forest area policy and other policy fields on the same political level are researched and referred to as “horizontal coherence”. Within a certain policy field, coherence of programs will be investigated as “internal coherence”, whereas relations and interactions to policy goals of other areas is being referred to as “external coherence”. The framework has been adapted to this study’s requirements and amended with dimensions to analyze coherence between pro-grams with respect to the dates and departments of publication.
With the analysis of policy coherence, this study pursues a philosophical understanding of “phronesis” (i.e. “prudence”, as opposed to “techne” and episteme) as the main target of social science and research. Based on a thourough assessment and using a determined set of values and goals for sustainable development of the forest sector, this study aims to contribute to the advancement of policy coherence in actual policy formulation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:74112 |
| Date | 05 March 2021 |
| Creators | Eberl, Justus |
| Contributors | Weber, Norbert, Endres, Ewald, Schurr, Christoph, Technische Universität Dresden |
| Publisher | BoD - Books on Demand |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-741090, qucosa:74109 |
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