Unraveling Forest Practice Policies in China: Subnational Comparisons through Policy Prescriptiveness Framework

Author:

Fu Yimin1ORCID,Sun Yixian2ORCID,Liu Jinlong3ORCID,Cashore Benjamin William4,Liang Wenyuan5

Affiliation:

1. College of Economics and Management, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350001, China

2. Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 5FE, UK

3. School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China

4. Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore 259772, Singapore

5. Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Abstract

Forest policy classification is critical to conducting comparisons and understanding performance variations across cases. Chinese-style forest policy has been in a black box to many outsiders, who tend to assume a decentralization policy model due to a great diversity of forest and socio-economic conditions in China. To test this hypothesis, we used the policy prescriptiveness framework to classify on-the-ground forest practice policies in central government and eight provinces, covering extensive territorial variations. We found that the eight subnational cases that implemented local policies appeared to be consistent with central policies, but there were also subtle differences within them. Our findings show that China utilized centralized and top-down policy models.

Funder

National Social Science Foundation of China

Publisher

MDPI AG

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