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CORRUPTION IN ROMANIAN FORESTRY - MORALITY AND LOCAL PRACTICE IN THE CONTEXT OF PRIVATIZATION (English version)

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  • MONICA VASILE

    (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)

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I believe that recent theoretical developments on corruption from the field of social anthropology can shed light on various processes that communities confront in different areas. This paper focuses on practices related to forestry, trying to show different mechanisms by which corruption might be performed, as well as the way in which the villagers' definitions of a corrupt act relate to morality. In Romania, 50% of the forests were privatized and a huge number of community-based institutions were established in the forest areas. A dense net of forestry institutions is beginning to work in rural Romania for managing and regulating forest-related issues in a decentralized way. Parallel with this process, storytelling about illegal logging and forest depletion is becoming a routine. How is it possible to perform corruption in the context of privatization and decentralization, which are among the anticorruption panacea promoted by international development agencies? - this is a question which will be answered in the article.

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  • Monica Vasile, 2009. "CORRUPTION IN ROMANIAN FORESTRY - MORALITY AND LOCAL PRACTICE IN THE CONTEXT OF PRIVATIZATION (English version)," Revista Romana de Sociologie, Revista Romana de Sociologie - actualizata si mentinuta de Editura Lumen/ Romanian Journal of Sociology, vol. 1, pages 105-120, february.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev19g:v:1-2:y:2009:i::p:105-120
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    Cited by:

    1. Andra-Cosmina Albulescu & Michael Manton & Daniela Larion & Per Angelstam, 2022. "The Winding Road towards Sustainable Forest Management in Romania, 1989–2022: A Case Study of Post-Communist Social–Ecological Transition," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-29, July.
    2. Marian Drăgoi & Veronica Toza, 2019. "Did Forestland Restitution Facilitate Institutional Amnesia? Some Evidence from Romanian Forest Policy," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(6), pages 1-19, June.

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    Keywords

    communities; corruption; community-based institutions; forest depletion; privatization;
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    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • K23 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law

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