Instituution synty: tapaus luonnonarvokauppa
Abstrakti
The catch idea of nature conservation today
is voluntarism. 1 will explore the shift in
conservation paradigm from close range via
one experimental project, natural values
trading. My intention is to study the process of
regional co-operation in which a local invention
was developed into a national environmental
policy innovation. Theoretically the work draws
from the tradition of institutional economics, for
which reason the unit of analysis is transaction.
By using abduction as a research strategy and
participatory observation as a method, 1 will
examine in detail how the collaborative steering
group of the Natural Values Trading created the
principles, the rules and the emerging practices
of trading. ln conclusion, 1 will formulate some
hypotheses regarding what purposes natural
values trading serves as part of Finnish forest
and biodiversity policies.
