Anders Milhøj

Ankersen

Atela

Bastos Lima

Bernstein

Birkland

Brockhaus

Clement

Corbin

FCPF

Fukuyama

Giessen

Goggin

Gupta

Hall

Henrik Meilby

Hoang

Howlett

Korhonen-Kurki

Krott

Loft

Lund

MARD

Martin R. Nielsen

Maryudi

Massarella

McElwee

Mcnally

Meyfroidt

Minang

Nepstad

Nielsen

Nilsson

Niskanen

Nunan

Ochieng

Patton

Peters

Pham

Republic of Vietnam

Rodriguez-Ward

Rose

Sahide

Salamon

Sanders

Setiawan

Stead

Stewart

Thorkil Casse

Trædal

Turnhout

UN-REDD

UNFCCC

Vietnam REDD+ Office

Weatherley-Singh

Williams

World Bank

Zachary Wurtzebach

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REDD+ policy design and policy learning: The emergence of an integrated landscape approach in Vietnam

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in integrated landscape approaches to “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation” (REDD+) that can address emissions drivers associated with land use change. However, there are often significant institutional challenges for the design and implementation of integrated policies in practice. There are also few scholarly examples of integrated landscape approaches to REDD+, particularly at subnational levels, and little is known about how or why they have emerged. To address this gap, this article explores the evolution of an integrated landscape approach to REDD+ in Vietnam through the lens of policy design and policy learning. Our research was structured around three objectives: 1) Investigate challenges for the design and implementation of intra and inter-sectoral policies at national and subnational levels of REDD+ governance 2) Explore how these challenges have led to policy change and improved policy integration 3) Evaluate if policy changes represent shallow or “deep” forms of policy learning. We found that limited policy capacity, problematic policy design processes, and bureaucratic politics have been significant barriers for vertical and horizontal policy integration. However, initial challenges have also led to instrumental and social policy learning, evident in changes to policy tools, goals, targets, and agents. We found that a regional landscape approach that leverages existing state institutions has emerged because it allows REDD+ actors to exploit scarce resources for design and implementation. We conclude that existing state policies and political commitment are essential for realizing an integrated landscape approach to REDD+, but that the process of REDD+ implementation may also contribute to “deeper” policy learning among state actors, and substantive reforms in state institutions.Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in integrated landscape approaches to “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation” (REDD+) that can address emissions drivers associated with land use change. However, there are often significant institutional challenges for the design and implementation of integrated policies in practice. There are also few scholarly examples of integrated landscape approaches to REDD+, particularly at subnational levels, and little is known about how or why they have emerged. To address this gap, this article explores the evolution of an integrated landscape approach to REDD+ in Vietnam through the lens of policy design and policy learning. Our research was structured around three objectives: 1) Investigate challenges for the design and implementation of intra and inter-sectoral policies at national and subnational levels of REDD+ governance 2) Explore how these challenges have led to policy change and improved policy integration 3) Evaluate if policy changes represent shallow or “deep” forms of policy learning. We found that limited policy capacity, problematic policy design processes, and bureaucratic politics have been significant barriers for vertical and horizontal policy integration. However, initial challenges have also led to instrumental and social policy learning, evident in changes to policy tools, goals, targets, and agents. We found that a regional landscape approach that leverages existing state institutions has emerged because it allows REDD+ actors to exploit scarce resources for design and implementation. We conclude that existing state policies and political commitment are essential for realizing an integrated landscape approach to REDD+, but that the process of REDD+ implementation may also contribute to “deeper” policy learning among state actors, and substantive reforms in state institutions.</p

Wurtzebach, Zachary

Casse, Thorkil

Meilby, Henrik

Nielsen, Martin Reinhardt

Milhøj, Anders

Copenhagen University Research Information System

REDD+ policy design and policy learning:The emergence of an integrated landscape approach in Vietnam

Undersøgelse af implementering af REDD+. Hvilke udfordringer har der været, og har regeringen udvist interesse i at støtte processenRecent years have seen a burgeoning interest in integrated landscape approaches to “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation” (REDD+) that can address emission drivers associated with land use change. However, there are often significant institutional challenges for the design and implementation of integrated policies in practice. There are also few scholarly examples of integrated landscape approaches to REDD+, particularly at subnational levels, and little is known about how or why they have emerged. To address this gap, this article explores the evolution of an integrated landscape approach to REDD+ in Vietnam through the lens of policy design and policy learning. Our research was structured around three objectives: 1) Investigate challenges for the design and implementation of intra- and inter-sectoral policies at national and subnational levels of REDD+ governance 2) Explore how these challenges have led to policy change and improved policy integration 3) Evaluate if policy changes represent “shallow” or “deep” forms of policy learning. We found that limited policy capacity, problematic policy design processes, and bureaucratic politics have been significant barriers for vertical and horizontal policy integration. However, initial challenges have also led to instrumental and social policy learning, evident in changes to policy tools, goals, targets, and agents. We found that a regional landscape approach that leverages existing state institutions has emerged because it allows REDD+ actors to exploit scarce resources for design and implementation. We conclude that existing state policies and political commitment are essential for realizing an integrated landscape approach to REDD+, but that the process of REDD+ implementation may also contribute to “deeper” policy learning among state actors, and substantive reforms in state institutions.</p

Nielsen, Martin R

Roskilde Universitet

https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/248777946/REDD_policy_integration_policy_failure_and_policy_leaarning_cross_level_dynamics_in_Vietnam.pdf

REDD+ policy design and policy learning:The emergence of an integrated landscape approach in Vietnam

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