Participation in the implementation of Natura 2000: A comparative study of six EU member states. Blondet, M., de Koning, J., Borrass, L., Ferranti, F., Geitzenauer, M., Weiss, G., Turnhout, E., & Winkel, G. Land Use Policy, 66:346 – 355, Elsevier Ltd, 2017. Cited by: 44
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The establishment of Natura 2000, the European Union's network of protected areas, has been a challenging process and has caused a variety of conflicts. These conflicts are related to contradictory stakeholder interests and perceptions, as well as to procedural issues and feelings of exclusion, especially by concerned local land user groups. To prevent further conflict, local participation has been stressed as an important tool to increase the inclusiveness of Natura 2000 and its acceptance among land users. In this paper, we present an analysis of participation practices related to the Natura 2000 implementation processes in six EU member states. Based on material collected from semi-structured interviews and document analysis, we describe the organisational settings of the participatory processes, focusing, among other things, on the type of participants involved, the level and intensity of their involvement, and the goal of participation. In addition, we also describe the local context in which the participation processes have been embedded. Finally, we assess the outcomes of the participatory processes in terms of their impact on forest and nature conservation management practices. Our results show that local participation practices were shaped not just by the Natura 2000 policy, but also by the history of the area, including, for example, earlier conflicts among the local actors. We also show that although the participation process leads to a greater acceptance of the Natura 2000 policy, this does not relate to significant changes in management practices among local actors. These findings, however, do not suggest that participation is irrelevant. Rather, we conclude that participation involves context-dependent, localised learning processes that can only be understood by taking the historical socio-economic and institutional context in which they are situated into account. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
@ARTICLE{Blondet2017346,
	author = {Blondet, Marieke and de Koning, Jessica and Borrass, Lars and Ferranti, Francesca and Geitzenauer, Maria and Weiss, Gerhard and Turnhout, Esther and Winkel, Georg},
	title = {Participation in the implementation of Natura 2000: A comparative study of six EU member states},
	year = {2017},
	journal = {Land Use Policy},
	volume = {66},
	pages = {346 – 355},
	doi = {10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.004},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019840624&doi=10.1016%2fj.landusepol.2017.04.004&partnerID=40&md5=be2dd79dc80ad34e6d8e2b0484448ebe},
	affiliations = {Laboratoire d'Etude des Ressources Forêt – Bois (LERFoB), AgroParisTech, INRA, 54000 Nancy, France and Associated Researcher, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7206 Eco-anthropologie et ethnobiologie, Paris, France; Sociology and Anthropology of Development, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Forest and Environmental Policy, Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg, Germany; Nature&Society Consultancy in Research and Publishing, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria & Central-East European Regional Office of the European Forest Institute (EFICEEC), Austria; Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; European Forest Institute, Forest for Society Research Programme, Yliopistokatu 6, Joensuu, 80100, Finland},
	abstract = {The establishment of Natura 2000, the European Union's network of protected areas, has been a challenging process and has caused a variety of conflicts. These conflicts are related to contradictory stakeholder interests and perceptions, as well as to procedural issues and feelings of exclusion, especially by concerned local land user groups. To prevent further conflict, local participation has been stressed as an important tool to increase the inclusiveness of Natura 2000 and its acceptance among land users. In this paper, we present an analysis of participation practices related to the Natura 2000 implementation processes in six EU member states. Based on material collected from semi-structured interviews and document analysis, we describe the organisational settings of the participatory processes, focusing, among other things, on the type of participants involved, the level and intensity of their involvement, and the goal of participation. In addition, we also describe the local context in which the participation processes have been embedded. Finally, we assess the outcomes of the participatory processes in terms of their impact on forest and nature conservation management practices. Our results show that local participation practices were shaped not just by the Natura 2000 policy, but also by the history of the area, including, for example, earlier conflicts among the local actors. We also show that although the participation process leads to a greater acceptance of the Natura 2000 policy, this does not relate to significant changes in management practices among local actors. These findings, however, do not suggest that participation is irrelevant. Rather, we conclude that participation involves context-dependent, localised learning processes that can only be understood by taking the historical socio-economic and institutional context in which they are situated into account. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd},
	author_keywords = {Impact; Legitimacy; Nature conservation; Participatory processes},
	keywords = {Europe; comparative study; environmental policy; European Union; local participation; management practice; nature conservation; participatory approach; policy implementation; stakeholder},
	correspondence_address = {M. Blondet; Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière INRA AgroParisTech, Nancy, 14, rue Girardet, 54042, France; email: marieke.blondet@nancy.inra.fr},
	publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},
	issn = {02648377},
	language = {English},
	abbrev_source_title = {Land Use Policy},
	type = {Article},
	publication_stage = {Final},
	source = {Scopus},
	note = {Cited by: 44}
}
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