Constraints on institutional change in smallscale forestry: a New Institutional Economics perspective
2006
Schlueter, A. (Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg (Germany). Institut fuer Forstoekonomie) | .
This contribution looks at the problems of bringing small, private forests into the wood production chain from an institutional theoretical perspective. This would conclude that institutional changes are inevitable. In practice, however, structures in small private forests are characterised by considerable inertia. Various approaches in New Institutional Economics are investigated to determine whether they can provide an explanation for this inertia. Explanatory power can only be developed by employing a combination of different approaches. The current extension of this theory into ideological and trading resources is equally necessary to understand the institutional change in forest management.
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