Natural resources governance – responsibilization of citizens or forcing responsibility on them?
The possibilities of citizens to participate in natural resource governance are increasing. Responsive and collaborative models of natural resource governance can open up new opportunities, but can also lead to unreasonable responsibilization, or even force responsibility on under-resourced organisations and individuals. This is the conclusion made in studies published in the Special Issue of Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, entitled Responsibilization in Natural Resource Governance and edited by Professor of Natural Resources Governance Irmeli Mustalahti from the University of