Forest Governance and Management Across Time: Developing a New Forest Social Contract

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Erland Mårald (Umea University, Sweden) Camilla Sandstrom

Forest Governance and Management Across Time

Developing a New Forest Social Contract

Erland Mårald (Umea University, Sweden), Camilla Sandstrom, Annika Nordin (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden) , and Others

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English

Routledge
05 June 2019

Forestry & related industries; Deforestation; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques

Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years’ rotations in forestry. Historically established path dependencies and conflicts determine our present situation and delimit what is possible to achieve. Similarly, future trends and desires have a large influence on decision making. Nevertheless, decisions about forest governance and management are always made in the present – in the present-time appraisal of the developed situation, future alternatives and in negotiation between different perspectives, interests, and actors.

This book explores historic and future outlooks as well as current tradeoffs and methods in forest governance and management. It emphasizes the generality and complexity with empirical data from Sweden and internationally. It first investigates, from a historical perspective, how previous forest policies and discourses have influenced current forest governance and management. Second, it considers methods to explore alternative forest futures and how the results from such investigations may influence the present. Third, it examines current methods of balancing tradeoffs in decision-making among ecosystem services. Based on the findings the authors develop an integrated approach – Reflexive Forestry – to support exchange of knowledge and understandings to enable capacity building and the establishment of common ground. Such societal agreements, or what the authors elaborate as forest social contracts, are sets of relational commitment between involved actors that may generate mutual action and a common directionality to meet contemporary challenges.

By: Erland Mårald (Umea University Sweden), Camilla Sandstrom, Annika Nordin (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden), and Others
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 353g
ISBN: 9780367351403
ISBN 10: 0367351404
Series: The Earthscan Forest Library
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 05 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I: Looking back 1. Forest Benefits 2. Forest Knowledge and management 3. Forest governance Part II: Looking forward 4. Methods to study forests’ futures 5. Contemporary future forest research 6. Reflective forest futures Part III: Grasping the present 7. Integrated approaches – in theory and practice 8. Efforts to bridge governance and management in Swedish forests Part IV Reflective Forestry 9. The Principles of Reflective Forestry 10. The toolbox of Reflective Forestry 11. Towards a new forest social contract?

Erland Mårald is Professor in History of Science and Ideas at Umeå University, Sweden. Camilla Sandström is Professor in Political Science at Umeå University, Sweden, and the deputy Program Director of the Future Forests research programme. Annika Nordin is Professor in Forest Ecophysiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Program Director of the Future Forests research programme. Contributing Authors: Lucy Rist, Anna Sténs, Karin Beland Lindahl, Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Johanna Johansson, Carina Keskitalo, Hjalmar Laudon, Rolf Lidskog, Tomas Lämås, Tomas Lundmark, Urban Nilsson, Eva-Maria Nordström, Jean-Michel Roberge and Johan Sonesson

Reviews for Forest Governance and Management Across Time: Developing a New Forest Social Contract

"""This readable book is aimed at international forest researchers, as well as forest managers, practitioners and policy makers. The book is written in accessible style with sufficient introduction and explanations such that little prior experience of the topic is needed to use the information in the book effectively. Although not stated, it appears especially useful for Swedish audiences and academics in the field of forest governance and practice.."" - Verina Ingram, Assistant Professor, Wageningen UR in International Forestry Review Vol.20(1), 2018"