Metodi Sotirov
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3877583 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Metodi Sotirov |
| PRENOMES | Metodi |
| SOBRENOME | Sotirov |
| ASSINATURA | SOTIROV M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3548-707X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 350 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Chain Reactions
The 2023 European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products (EUDR) is a transnational regulation aimed at addressing forest loss along the value chains of forest‐risk commodities. Grounding our analysis in new institutional theory with distinct behavioral drivers explaining actor behavior, and using qualitative methods, we draw on the cases of Brazil, the Congo Basin, and the EU to understand the behavior of forestry and agricultural sector…
The role of social, policy and economic forces in shaping forest restoration practices in Europe
Forest restoration in Europe has a complex history strongly influenced by various social, policy and economic factors. Understanding these influences is essential for shaping effective restoration strategies and avoiding past mistakes, particularly in light of meeting ambitious targets outlined in initiatives such as the EU Nature Restoration Regulation. Here we identify the key social, policy and economic drivers, barriers and enablers that have…
Forests in the Spotlight
The adoption of the proposal for an EU Nature Restoration Regulation (EU-NRR) in 2022 sparked controversial debates across environmental policy domains. The intensity of debate during the ordinary legislative procedure was evident in the numerous amendments and close voting outcomes within the EU legislative institutions. Although the multi-level and multi-sectoral nature of the EU environmental policy arena provides numerous opportunities and ve…
How Does the European Union's Pluralistic Institutional System Influence Policy Change? The Case of the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products
How did policy actors use the European Union's (EU's) political system to achieve policy changes in regulating the sustainability and legality of transnational forest and agricultural commodity supply chains? We qualitatively analysed the development of the new EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free products (EUDR) from actor‐centred and institutionalist perspectives. Data sources include policy documents, interviews and participant observation. Our…
Combating new challenges with old political solutions? Policy responses to climate change and climate- induced disturbances in European forests
This study focuses on the role of external events – in the form of climate change and climate-induced disturbance – for policy forest development. The aim is to explore the evolution of European forest policy through a longitudinal analysis of Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Sweden, assessing how climate change and climate-induced disturbances are considered in policy goals, problem perceptions, governance approaches, and preferred management solu…
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens
This study employs Cultural Theory to study perceptions and conflicting worldviews of key actor groups in EU forest policy. Forests are central to different human demands for ecosystem services such as biomass, biodiversity, and climate mitigation. Tradeoffs occur between these ecosystem services, involving the necessity to set priorities. Related to increasing uncertainties inter alia caused by climate change, polarized perspectives prevail in t…
Equity in unilateral value chain policies
Not an easy ride
Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies
We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and solutions. Second, linking CT and the ACF allows us to conceptualize further the cognitive mechanisms for strateg…
Regulatory politics and hybrid governance
Global supply chains remain a challenge to deforestation and land use conversion. • We qualitatively study Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium (ASM) design and longevity. • The ASM’s success relies on a policy mix and other enabling factors for its formation. • A sticky alliance, yet vulnerable due to exclusiveness, leakage, and other policies. • There are limitations to the replication of the ASM’s form of hybrid governance. This paper analyses the u…
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements
How and Why Do Economic Operators Comply With EU Law? Analysis of Firm‐Level Responses to the EU Timber Regulation in Germany
The European Union (EU) Timber Regulation (EUTR) formally requires EU operators to conduct due diligence along their supply chains to prevent illegally sourced timber products from entering the European market. Little is known about the regulatory behaviour and motivations of operators to comply with this regulation. We explore the regulatory behaviour of companies by applying a synthesis of behavioural theories of regulatory compliance and trans…
The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products
Clash or concert in European forests? Integration and coherence of forest ecosystem service–related national policies
This paper compares how forest ecosystem service–related policies are integrated in different national European forest governance contexts. Efforts to achieve policy integration at the EU and national levels are often described in terms of limited success. Our analysis of forest, energy/bioeconomy, climate, and conservation policies suggests that notions of progress or failure merit careful assessment. Combining theories of policy integration (PI…
Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supply chains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation
The European Union (EU) has recently introduced the Deforestation Regulation to close regulatory gaps in the sustainability and legality of global forest and agricultural commodity supply chains. We analyze this regulatory policy change by drawing on accountability scholarship and institutionalist theories of regulation. Our results show that the Regulation aims to enhance corporate accountability mechanisms through mostly state‐based hard regula…
Policy options to regulate timber and agricultural supply-chains for legality and sustainability
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study
FSC sustainability certification as green-lane for legality verification under the Eutr? Changes and policy learning at the interplay of private governance and public policy
Forest environmental frontiers around the globe
The forest environmental frontier in Russia
With 20% of the world’s forests, Russia has global potential in bioeconomy development, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. However, unsustainable forest management based on ‘wood mining’ reduces this potential. Based on document analysis, participant observations and interviews, this article shows how non-state actors—environmental NGOs and forest companies—address forest resource depletion and primary forest loss in Russia.…
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and…
Cross-sectoral policy integration at the forest and water nexus
The politics of an EU forest information system
A political economy of the European Union's timber regulation
Resilience through policy integration in Europe? Domestic forest policy changes as response to absorb pressure to integrate biodiversity conservation, bioenergy use and climate protection in France, G…
The Advocacy Coalition Framework in natural resource policy studies — Recent experiences and further prospects
Toward a cognitive theory of shifting coalitions and policy change
Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supply chains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation
The European Union (EU) has recently introduced the Deforestation Regulation to close regulatory gaps in the sustainability and legality of global forest and agricultural commodity supply chains. We analyze this regulatory policy change by drawing on accountability scholarship and institutionalist theories of regulation. Our results show that the Regulation aims to enhance corporate accountability mechanisms through mostly state‐based hard regula…
An obituary for national forest programmes? Analyzing and learning from the strategic use of “new modes of governance” in Germany and Bulgaria
Protecting “First world” markets and “Third world” nature
Do forest policy actors learn through forward-thinking? Conflict and cooperation relating to the past, present and futures of sustainable forest management in Germany
Policy change and Europeanization
The Habitats Directive is the cornerstone of the European Union’s nature conservation policy. Its cumbersome and contested implementation is analysed across multiple levels of governance in Germany and the United Kingdom, focusing on forest policy. In an analysis that aligns Börzel and Risse’s approach to Europeanization with Hall’s policy change model, policy documents and interviews with 49 policy stakeholders are analysed. It is shown that pol…
Resilience through policy integration in Europe? Domestic forest policy changes as response to absorb pressure to integrate biodiversity conservation, bioenergy use and climate protection in France, G…
The emergence of the European Union Timber Regulation
Forest owner behavioral models, policy changes, and forest management. An agent-based framework for studying the provision of forest ecosystem goods and services at the landscape level
The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products
The implementation of Natura 2000 in forests
Integrated Forest Governance in Europe
The challenge of financing the implementation of Natura 2000 – Empirical evidence from six European Union Member States
FSC sustainability certification as green-lane for legality verification under the Eutr? Changes and policy learning at the interplay of private governance and public policy
A political economy of the European Union's timber regulation
Natura 2000 and climate change—Polarisation, uncertainty, and pragmatism in discourses on forest conservation and management in Europe
Equity in unilateral value chain policies
Not an easy ride
Policy options to regulate timber and agricultural supply-chains for legality and sustainability
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and…
The politics of an EU forest information system
Cross-sectoral policy integration at the forest and water nexus
The sustainably managed forest heats up
In this article, we introduce an empirical case study of the German forest policy subsystem in order to understand how the concept of sustainable forest management has been discursively constructed, challenged, and changed over time. As a theoretical basis, we use an idea-based coalition approach, drawing on both the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Hajer's Argumentative Discourse Analysis. We show that rival coalitions that share a certain idea …
An obituary for national forest programmes? Analyzing and learning from the strategic use of “new modes of governance” in Germany and Bulgaria
The sustainably managed forest heats up
In this article, we introduce an empirical case study of the German forest policy subsystem in order to understand how the concept of sustainable forest management has been discursively constructed, challenged, and changed over time. As a theoretical basis, we use an idea-based coalition approach, drawing on both the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Hajer's Argumentative Discourse Analysis. We show that rival coalitions that share a certain idea …
The Advocacy Coalition Framework in natural resource policy studies — Recent experiences and further prospects
Natura 2000 and climate change—Polarisation, uncertainty, and pragmatism in discourses on forest conservation and management in Europe
The implementation of Natura 2000 in forests
Toward a cognitive theory of shifting coalitions and policy change
Policy change and Europeanization
The Habitats Directive is the cornerstone of the European Union’s nature conservation policy. Its cumbersome and contested implementation is analysed across multiple levels of governance in Germany and the United Kingdom, focusing on forest policy. In an analysis that aligns Börzel and Risse’s approach to Europeanization with Hall’s policy change model, policy documents and interviews with 49 policy stakeholders are analysed. It is shown that pol…
Whose integration is this? European forest policy between the gospel of coordination, institutional competition, and a new spirit of integration
Policy integration is a challenging process that involves the renegotiation of interests, beliefs, and sectoral policy boundaries. In this paper we introduce European forest policy as an arena that is characterized by a policy (dis)integration paradox. On the one hand, the need for better coordination and integration of fragmented policies is frequently expressed. On the other hand, little has been achieved in terms of policy integration despite …
Do forest policy actors learn through forward-thinking? Conflict and cooperation relating to the past, present and futures of sustainable forest management in Germany
Protecting “First world” markets and “Third world” nature
The emergence of the European Union Timber Regulation
Forest owner behavioral models, policy changes, and forest management. An agent-based framework for studying the provision of forest ecosystem goods and services at the landscape level
The challenge of financing the implementation of Natura 2000 – Empirical evidence from six European Union Member States
A political economy of the European Union's timber regulation
Resilience through policy integration in Europe? Domestic forest policy changes as response to absorb pressure to integrate biodiversity conservation, bioenergy use and climate protection in France, G…
Integrated Forest Governance in Europe
Cross-sectoral policy integration at the forest and water nexus
The politics of an EU forest information system
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study
FSC sustainability certification as green-lane for legality verification under the Eutr? Changes and policy learning at the interplay of private governance and public policy
Forest environmental frontiers around the globe
The forest environmental frontier in Russia
With 20% of the world’s forests, Russia has global potential in bioeconomy development, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. However, unsustainable forest management based on ‘wood mining’ reduces this potential. Based on document analysis, participant observations and interviews, this article shows how non-state actors—environmental NGOs and forest companies—address forest resource depletion and primary forest loss in Russia.…
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and…
Policy options to regulate timber and agricultural supply-chains for legality and sustainability
The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products
Economics (28 obras) · Political science (27 obras) · Forest Management and Policy (26 obras) · Business (25 obras) · Environmental resource management (18 obras) · Corporate governance (16 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (15 obras) · Ecology (15 obras) · European union (15 obras) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (14 obras)