Title: Creating green employment: a new link between forestry and employment policies

Authors: Takashi Hattori

Addresses: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

Abstract: To successfully address issues such as sustainable forest management it is necessary to link various policies. To examine the policy formulation process surrounding the linkage of forestry and employment policies, I present a case study of the links created between a new movement in Japan, the Green Employment Project, and the establishment of the Special Grant for Urgent Creation of Local Employment. The case study scrutinizes the policy formulation process stage by stage to give us a better understanding of the linkage issues. This process-oriented approach works as an effective analytical tool to identify, among others, the rationales for exclusion and inclusion of various policy issues.

Keywords: green employment; forestry; employment policies; sustainable forest management; sustainability; policy formulation; Japan; process-oriented approach.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2002.054008

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2002 Vol.4 No.2, pp.99 - 113

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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