The Changing Governance of Renewable Natural Resources in Northwest Russia

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Soili Nysten- Haarala; Part I National Policies and a Transition to a Market Economy: Institutions, interest groups and governance ofnatural resources in Russia, Soili Nysten-Haarala and Juha Kotilainen; The task of macroeconomic policy in generating trust in Russia's development, Stefan Walter; Russian forest regulation and the integration of sustainable forest management, Minna Pappila; Fishery governance in Northwest Russia, Larissa Riabova and Lyudmila Ivanova; The struggle for the ownership of pulp and paper mills, Anna-Maija Matilainen. Part II Case Studies on Different Aspects of Governance: Re-territorializing the Russian North through hybrid forest management, Julia Kotilainen, Antonina A. Kulyasova, Ivan P. Kulyasov and Svetlana S. Pchelkina; Construction of trust in Russian mill towns, Jarmo Kortelainen and Soili Nysten-Haarala; Conflict as a form of governance: the market campaign to save Karelian forests, Maria Tysiachniouk; Transformation of nature management in Pomorie: fishing villages on the Onega peninsula of the White Sea, Antonina A. Kulyasova and Ivan P. Kulyasov. Part III The International and Global Impacts on National Environmental Policy and Local Forestry and Fishery: Local adaptation to climate change in fishing villages and forest settlements in Northwest Russia, E. Carina H. Keskitalo and Antonia A. Kulyasova; Regional governance, path dependency and capacity-building in international environmental cooperation, Monica Tennberg; Summary, Soili Nysten-Haarala; Index.