ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the issues of whether the Russian North is being divided into new territorial formations according to new environmental and social standards that are being imported into Russia and, in the process, mixed with norms, discourses and practices at the local, regional and federal scales. The 'hybrid management regimes' in the chapter explores the new, strong involvement of other than state actors, business enterprises and non-governmental organizations, in the regulation of forest management and use. The chapter discusses the term to mean the mixing of norms, discourses and practices deriving from the Soviet period with those brought to Russia with new market economic relations, capital flows, and non-governmental organizations. It reviews hybridity as a multi-scalar characteristic of forest management regimes. The chapter argues that the new forest management regimes that are being produced through changes in the larger forest governance system have a hybrid character.
