Interactions among Forest Policy, Education and Research in Turkey: Policy Documents’ and Managers’ Perspectives.
2018
Yurdakul Erol, Seçil
The success of forest policy, research, and education depends on each fully considering the needs and knowledge of the other. Parallel to this approach, the goals of the present study were to express the role and content of aspects of forest education and research in the context of current Turkish forest policy documents. In addition, this paper aimed to reveal the viewpoints of senior managers of the Turkish forestry organization in terms of policy-organization and research-education relationships. Content analysis was used in terms of analyzing the relevant components of forest policy documents and interviews with national forestry organization’s senior managers allowed a more in-depth analysis. The findings showed that research and universities are the most important factors in the perspective of National forestry documents. Despite this result, meetings with senior managers of the forestry organization proved that no real institutional cooperation existed between the organizational units and the Faculty of forestry colleges and Universities. Creating work groups and holding workshops are some current efforts in terms of strengthening the relationship between policy, research, and education in Turkish forestry. However, some further critical actions regarding strengthening communication, collaboration and institutional relations, developing participatory approaches, and reducing bureaucracy are needed.
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