Stakeholders' Participation in a Forest Policy Reform Process: from Democracy Promotion to Power Re-distribution. A Theoretical Case Study in Kyrgyzstan
La Participation des Acteurs d'un Processus de Reforme de la Politique Forestière: de la Promotion de la Démocratie, à la Redistribution du Pouvoir. Etude théorique sur le cas du Kirghizistan
Résumé
This work is based on a practical experience in facilitation of a forest policy reform process in an ex-Soviet Republic during an 8 years period (1997 - 2005). Participation was introduced and promoted along a complete policy cycle, consisting of the problem definition (through analysis of the actual situation), elaboration of a strategy and an action plan, policy implementation, evaluation and adaptation. This practical experience has been combined with theoretical reflections and analysis, and later on enriched by research in the framework of a comparative study of the new modes of governance in forestry in 10 European countries (GoFOR project) and an overview of the present state of art in the field of forest policy in relation to the aspects of participation. Ideas motivated by the practical experience and theoretical research have been presented in various conferences and research courses and published in the proceedings of the related conferences. During the period of the work over the doctoral thesis, five articles have been published in peer reviewed journals, four of them are included into the thesis. The thesis paper falls into 5 main chapters. The practical experience, empirical analysis and the research within the GoFOR project are briefly presented in the Chapter I, titled
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