Landowners must be rewarded in State's nature restoration plan
Failed Coillte forestry on the boundary of Connemara National Park. Coillte, which manages 7% of all land in Ireland, is governed by an outdated commercial mandate that must be reformed. Picture: Pádraic Fogarty
A top-down approach is a term given to the strategy whereby a top-level executive gives orders about what lower-level employees further down the chain are to do. It’s a traditional approach to management and, while it may work for companies in the corporate world, it’s not really a model that transfers into broader society where you need to get buy-in from various stakeholders.
Addressing the first meeting of the leaders’ forum on nature restoration to discuss the national nature restoration plan, minister of state for nature, heritage, and biodiversity Christopher O’Sullivan said: “If we’re to get the plan right, we need to listen to everybody. It can’t be a top-down approach, it can’t be a case of myself or the State telling people how this plan is going to come together.”
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