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Date |
2015-12 |
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p14655489 |
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abstract |
Prior to the eleventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) in 2015
a series of interlinked initiatives took place intended to generate new options for
strengthening the international arrangement on forests. The paper analyses these initiatives
and identifies the main proposals to emerge from them. It is shown that almost all
these proposals were lost or weakened during the negotiation process. One reason for
this, it is argued, is the consensual decision making procedures of the UNFF whereby
it takes all states to say yes, and only one to say no. This empowers veto states,
namely powerful and intransigent states that wish to resist change in key areas. It
is also argued that international forest negotiations do not start from a blank page
with ‘textual shadows’, namely precedents from inside and outside the UNFF, delimiting
the possibilities available for delegates and, for some issues, leading to the perpetuation
of the status quo. The result is that during the formal intergovernmental negotiations
creativity is stifled with the textual outputs tending towards a politics of the lowest
common denominator. |
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authors |
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issue |
4 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/411479 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/411480 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/411714 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/411715 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/411716 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/411717 |
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volume |
17 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Humphreys, D. (2015). Negotiating the future under the shadow of the past: the eleventh
session of the United Nations Forum on Forests and the 2015 renewal of the international
arrangement on forests. International Forestry Review, 17(4) pp. 385–399. |
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label |
Humphreys, D. (2015). Negotiating the future under the shadow of the past: the
eleventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests and the 2015 renewal of the
international arrangement on forests. International Forestry Review, 17(4) pp. 385–399.
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Title |
Negotiating the future under the shadow of the past: the eleventh session of the United
Nations Forum on Forests and the 2015 renewal of the international arrangement on
forests |
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oro |