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标题：The Neglect of Governance in Forest Sector Vulnerability Assessments: Structural-Functionalism and “Black Box” Problems in Climate Change Adaptation Planning
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作者：Adam M. Wellstead ; Michael Howlett ; Jeremy Rayner 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2013
卷号：18
期号：3
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Efforts to develop extensive forest-based climate change vulnerability assessments have informed proposedmanagement and policy options intended to promote improved on-the-ground policy outcomes. These assessments are derivedfrom a rich vulnerability literature and are helpful in modeling complex ecosystem interactions, yet their policy relevance andimpact has been limited. We argue this is due to structural-functional logic underpinning these assessments in which governanceis treated as a procedural "black box" and policy-making as an undifferentiated and unproblematic output of a political systemresponding to input changes and/or system prerequisites. Like an earlier generation of systems or cybernetic thinking aboutpolitical processes, the focus in these assessments on macro system-level variables and relationships fails to account for themulti-level or polycentric nature of governance and the possibility of policy processes resulting in the nonperformance of criticaltasks
关键词：climate change; forestry; governance; structural functionalism