Western Australia's Regional Forest System Case Study

The conflict sets the political debate, in more recent cases, the conflicts have allowed to change the framework. Since there are new actors rising because they are interested in the issue, they create new impacts and other actors become irrelevant. In Australia, the national elections adapted their approach to Neo-corporatism because the actors in play had changed; these represented the interests of rivalling political groups . This argument is illustrated by studying the case of the regional forests in Australia, where the state manages environmental problems, nevertheless the manner in which the government is constituted allows for there to be different assessments and solutions to particular cases. Australia was one of the first countries to …show more content…
The input that local communities is invaluable and in some cases, it is even more effective. Nevertheless, the rationalist approach shows that with the participation and involvement of various sectors and different information into account, the result could bring the best administration of the place. In the case of Western Australia’s regional forest agreement, there was a clash between ideologies counting on the conservation of the forest against those who prioritized production through logging and the extraction of timber from the forests. During the 1990s, the resolution for forest management was finalized by having a critical community involvement. The local communities provided valuable information that came from scientific grounds showing how the area would be completely devastated if the forests were only utilized as a resource and not protected. The local knowledge of the area was an increasingly critical source for environmental manage. The RFAs (Regional Forest Agreements) would come to provide durability because it was backed by