Academy of Finland funded postdoc project (2016–2019) explores the interactions between informal forest activities and the emergence of institutions regulating the use of land and forest resources. The project examines how formal forest and land use institutions emerge and render legitimacy. These issues are studied in the context of forest governance instruments: Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+).
This research contributed to an emerging scientific literature on FLEGT and REDD+ as global environmental governance mechanisms, and to an ongoing theoretical and analytical debate on the law compliance behaviour in forestry. The project resulted in recommendations for development of an alternative approaches to forest law compliance and to an expanded analytical framework for forest law compliance. Six publications have been produced based on this research.
