Worldwide, a variety of crises are affecting forests, which also contribute to mitigate crises effects. This article examines the question to what extent and under what conditions crises are drivers for policy change towards more ecological forest management. Based on an analytical model that links crises and policy change through actor-centred power (ACP), the formulation of new financing instruments for forests in Germany is used as a case. Methodologically, we go beyond recording power resources and focus on the use of these resources by actors of both the forest and nature conservation policy sector. The use of power resources is measured by the activities of sectoral actors and their effectiveness for the policy output. The results show policy changes that have been favored by the climate, forest and coronavirus crises. The crises opened windows of opportunity as discursive resources that could be better exploited by the forest sector than the nature conservation sector. This shows that the use of crises by political actors tends to have a power-stabilizing effect in forest policy. Only the change of government opened the window that leaded to a power shift in favor of the nature conservation sector by defining more nature conservation related requirements.

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多重危机是森林和自然的政策窗口：来自德国的力量分析


在全球范围内，各种危机正在影响森林，这也有助于减轻危机的影响。本文探讨了危机在何种程度和条件下是推动政策变革以实现更多生态森林管理的问题。基于通过行为者为中心的权力 （ACP） 将危机和政策变化联系起来的分析模型，德国森林新融资工具的制定被用作案例。在方法论上，我们超越了记录电力资源，并关注森林和自然保护政策部门的行为者对这些资源的使用。电力资源的使用是通过部门参与者的活动及其对政策输出的有效性来衡量的。结果显示，气候、森林和冠状病毒危机有利于政策变化。危机打开了机会之窗，作为话语资源，林业部门可以比自然保护部门更好地开发这些资源。这表明，政治行为者利用危机往往在森林政策中产生权力稳定作用。只有政府的更迭打开了一扇窗，通过定义更多与自然保护相关的要求，导致权力转向有利于自然保护部门。