Conflicts between communities and parks discourses (Vasile 2008)

Vasile, M. 2008. Nature Conservation, Conflict and Discourses on Forest Management: Communities and
Protected Areas from Meridional Carpathians. Sociologie Romaneasca, no. 34: 87100.

Conflicts between parks and community exploited to the advantage of local elites (mayor)
Dorondel (Dorondel 2016)

Dorondel, Stefan. 2011. Tenure Rights, Environmental Interests, and the Politics of Local Government in
Romania, In Forests and People., eds Thomas Sikor, Johannes Stahl Routledge, 2011

Dorondel, Stefan. 2016. Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist
Romania. The Environment in History, International Perspectives, volume 8. New York, NY Oxford:
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Concepts of nature/ participation in environmental governance (Szabo et al. 2008)(Van Assche et al.
2011)(van Assche, Bell, and Teampau 2012)

>>environmental issues in the Danube Delta concepts of nature are related to historical ways of managing
the resources, local conflicts and to local legacies of disempowerment
Van Assche, Kristof, Raoul Beunen, Joren Jacobs, and Petruta Teampau. 2011. Crossing Trails in the
Marshes: Rigidity and Flexibility in the Governance of the Danube Delta. Journal of Environmental
Planning and Management 54 (8): 9971018. doi:10.1080/09640568.2010.547687.
Van Assche, Kristof, Sandra Bell, and Petruta Teampau. 2012. Traumatic Natures of the Swamp: Concepts
of Nature in the Romanian Danube Delta. Environmental Values 21 (2): 16383.
doi:10.3197/096327112X13303670567297.

>> there is no tradition of participation in Romanian communities false! There is as much as anywhere else
in the world, resources were governed by local communities for centuries through local assemblies,
representatives, etc
Szabo, Eva Alina, Anna Lawrence, Claudiu Iusan, and Susan Canney. 2008. Participatory Protected Area
Management A Case Study from Rodna Mountains National Park, Romania. International
Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management 4 (4): 18799. doi:10.3843/Biodiv.4.4:2.
 Environmental loss/concerns, forests experienced high levels of disturbance after 1990, and particularly
after 2000 (Griffiths et al. 2012, 2014), including the loss of valuable ecosystems and old-growth forests
(Knorn et al. 2012)

Griffiths, Patrick, Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann, Volker C. Radeloff, Ioan V. Abrudan, Juraj
Lieskovsky, Catalina Munteanu, Katarzyna Ostapowicz, and Patrick Hostert. 2014. Forest
Disturbances, Forest Recovery, and Changes in Forest Types across the Carpathian Ecoregion from
1985 to 2010 Based on Landsat Image Composites. Remote Sensing of Environment 151 (August):
7288. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.022.
Griffiths, Patrick, Tobias Kuemmerle, Robert E. Kennedy, Ioan V. Abrudan, Jan Knorn, and
Patrick Hostert. 2012. Using Annual Time-Series of Landsat Images to Assess the Effects of Forest
Restitution in Post-Socialist Romania. Remote Sensing of Environment 118 (March): 199214.
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.006.
Knorn, Jan, Tobias Kuemmerle, Volker C. Radeloff, Alina Szabo, Marcel Mindrescu, William S. Keeton,
Ioan Abrudan, Patrick Griffiths, Vladimir Gancz, and Patrick Hostert. 2012. Forest Restitution and
Protected Area Effectiveness in Post-Socialist Romania. Biological Conservation 146 (1): 20412.
doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.020.

Property reforms and restitution have increased the emotional value of land and relate to natural
resource management (Vasile 2015, 2007) which in turn works against acceptance of conservation
by local communities
Vasile, Monica. 2007. Sense of Property, Deprivation and Memory in the Case of Obtea Vrncean.
Sociologie Romaneasca 5 (2): 11429.
. 2015. The Role of Memory and Identity in the Obtea Forest Commons of Romania. In Patterns
of Commoning, edited by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. The Commons Strategies Group.

Issues of corruption and illegal logging, related to institutional change (Bouriaud and Marzano 2016;
Nichiforel and Schanz 2011)(Vasile 2009)
Nichiforel, Liviu, and Heiner Schanz. 2011. Property Rights Distribution and Entrepreneurial Rent-Seeking
in Romanian Forestry: A Perspective of Private Forest Owners. European Journal of Forest Research 130
(3): 36981. doi:10.1007/s10342-009-0337-8.
Vasile, M. 2009. Corruption in Romanian Forestry: Morality and Local Practice in the Context of
Privatization. Romanian Journal of Sociology 20 (12): 10520.
Bouriaud, Laura, and Mariella Marzano. 2016. Conservation, Extraction and Corruption: Is Sustainable
Forest Management Possible in Romania? In Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods:
Development Challenges in an Era of Globalization, edited by E. Gilberthorpe and G. Hilson, 22139.
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concerns about adapting forest management to climate change (Bouriaud et al. 2015; Bouriaud and
Marzano 2016)
Bouriaud, Laura, and Mariella Marzano. 2016. Conservation, Extraction and Corruption: Is Sustainable
Forest Management Possible in Romania? In Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous
Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalization, edited by E. Gilberthorpe and G.
Hilson, 22139. London: Routledge.
Bouriaud, Laura, Mariella Marzano, Manfred Lexer, Liviu Nichiforel, Christopher Reyer, Christian
Temperli, Heli Peltola, et al. 2015. Institutional Factors and Opportunities for Adapting European
Forest Management to Climate Change. Regional Environmental Change 15 (8): 15951609.
doi:10.1007/s10113-015-0852-8.