Hiedanpää, Juha. “An Institutionalist Approach to Environmental Valuation: The Regional Forest Programme of Southwest Finland as an Example.” Environmental Values 13, no. 2 (2004): 243–60. doi:10.3197/0963271041159886.
This paper discusses the impacts of different formal and informal institutions upon the Regional Forest Programme of Southwest Finland (1997–2001). The divide between formal and informal institutions is a binary distinction: it is used as a discursive tool for identifying social structures and processes and for articulating their significance in development and environmental planning, valuation and decision-making. In the end part of the paper, there is a brief discussion of how normative and moral issues can be explicitly and more creatively integrated into the practice of environmental policy.
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