一、目的：
近40年来，全球和许多国家环境与资源问题越来越突出，气候变化、生物多样性减少、毁林、荒漠化已经成为全球议题，国际社会、公民团体、市场和各国政府纷纷介入到全球环境治理体系的构建。资源环境与继和平和发展之后，成为全球治理体系构建的核心主题。近20年来，环境治理理论迅速发展，引领着全球和各国资源环境治理体系的变迁。本项目以森林治理体系为切入点，介绍和分析：
 国际和各国森林治理体系的变迁、发展历程和未来趋势；
 森林治理理论；
 全球森林治理体系对各国林业政策和治理体系的影响
二、项目简要：
本项目将由二门课程组成，分别是：1）国际林业治理：理论和动向；2）国际林业治理和政策：影响和机会。将组建一流国际林业经济与政策研究学者团队共同设计课程，分工授课。
本项目可轮流在中国人民大学和国立首尔大学等亚洲高校举办。
三、团队构成
课程名称
主讲者
单位
国际林业治理：理论和动向
Prof. Benjamin Cashore
耶鲁大学
刘金龙教授
中国人民大
国际林业治理和政策：影响和机会
Prof. Youn Yeochang
国立首尔大学
Prof. Wil De Jong
日本京都大学
四、学生来源
本课程的人数限定在30人以内，主要由下列几部分人员构成：
 农业与农村发展学院林业经济管理专业所有博士生（6人）；
 人民大学其他师生（限10人）；
 国立首尔大学（4人）；
 我国设立林业经济管理专业博士点师生（限10人）
 其他亚太国家
五、课程简介
1、国际林业治理：理论和动向
This course examines the emergence, institutionalization, and influence, of “global forest governance”, which we define as “…arenas of transnational or international authority through which organizations, individuals and actors deliberate, and identify, appropriate forest policies and behaviors.” Our primary focus is to understand better how, since the 1980s, so much of forest and environmental policy and politics has become global, and the implications of this attention for transnational and collective forest and environment problem solving.
To accomplish this task we integrate theory with practical cases. Theoretical attention draws on approaches from international relations, global environmental politics, comparative public policy, and private authority. Our practical focus has three dimensions. First, we review the overall approach to global environmental governance that has emerged globally, including key conference, international regimes, and international organizations. Second, we place strong attention on the key problems for which global forest governance has emerged, especially deforestation and degradation. Third, we assess how other key global environmental challenges interact with forests, especially climate change, agriculture, mining, and local/indigenous “rights to resources”.
The questions that will guide our work throughout the semester include:
 Why is global forest and environmental governance necessary?
 How has it performed and why?
 What new approaches have emerged?
 What should the optimal institutional structure for global environmental governance look like?
The aim is to help you develop your ability to think critically, causally, and constructively about global environmental governance. We thus start by placing a heavy emphasis in critically thinking about the biases and benefits of any single explanatory framework in shaping methods, problem definitions, and power, and to then reflecting on the insights of these theories for practical efforts at problem solving.
Students should be aware that we generally emphasize both “historical” and “forward looking” thinking that requires careful attention to concept building, theorizing, and empirical research about
complex, interactive processes. These processes are difficult to capture through formal modeling techniques. Within political science, a key research method developed to uncover these processes is known as “process tracing”, which essentially involves identifying how complex historical “cause and effect” sequences have shaped global environmental institutions in general, and the role of different organizations, individuals, and government actors in particular.
2. 国际林业治理和政策：影响和机会
The course will be implemented through eight day sessions during the second half of July. At the end of the course, students are expected to be familiar with contemporary global trends, and initiatives that essentially address interests of global constituencies, but that have important bearing on actors living at the fringes of forests, or actors who have administrative or political mandates over those geographic or social-political regions. The objectives is to achieve familiarity with how among academic communities debate these issues, but also how they are viewed among actors with governance, public policy, development, social welfare or civil rights mandates. This will also imply familiarity of the related academic literature. Additionally, students will be expected to have achieved familiarity with research methods that allow for designing research plans and implement research on topics discussed in this course.
六、publicity
Do not miss our Summer school at Renmin University of China!
For PhD fellows, MS students, officials and researchers and we are organizing a Summer school on “GLOBAL FOREST GOVERNANCE, POLICY AND THEIR LOCAL IMPACTS”. The Summer school will take place in Beijing, 5-30 of June, 2015. Anchor teachers of this Summer school are: Prof. dr. Benjamin Cashore from the Yale University; Prof. dr. Wil De Jong from the Kyoto University, Prof. dr. YOUN Yeo-Chang, Professor of Ecological Economics and Forest Policy from the National Seoul University, and Prof. dr. Liu Jinlong from Renmin University of China. This course examines the emergence, institutionalization, and influence, of “global forest governance” and contemporary global trends, and initiatives that essentially address interests of global constituencies. For more details about the programme, please contact with Ms. click here. And for registration, you can click here.