International Conference   BUILDING INSIGHTS OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND ACCOUNTING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine May 17 � 19, 2007   IUFRO Unit 4.05.00 - Managerial Economics and Accounting IUFRO Unit 4.05.01 - Managerial, social and environmental accounting IUFRO Unit 4.05.02 - Managerial economics

Ukraine Forest Policies for Sustainable Global Environmental Development

Nataliya Plesha and Steven R. Shook

University of Idaho, USA

Email: ples2752@uidaho.edu

This paper is an attempt to create model that integrates Ukraine into the sustainable global environmental development process using four pathways of internationalization and domestic policy change. It seeks to address this topic applying published case research in ecological forestry from the view-point of globalization, internationalization and domestic policy change. The review will consider the importance of four selected pathways; these include market dependence, international rules and regulations, norms and infiltration of the domestic policy-making process on the issues of domestic policy change for global integration. The focus will be on such issues as globalization and internationalization models of domestic policy change (particularly forced by transnational actors and international institutions), dependence on foreign markets with ability of transnational actors applying different strategies to the global markets in order to make policy changes, effect of international agreements or policies of powerful international organizations on domestic policy change, value change aspects as a form of restating existing norms and ideas or establishing new ones, and the process of entering domestic policy networks. The paper identifies directions for future research in this important area.

Keywords: globalization, internationalization, domestic policy change, transnational actors, international institutions, ecological forest

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