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Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.
Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Campus Evenstad, Koppang, N-2480, Norway.
European Forest Institute, Mediterranean Facility, Barcelona, 08025, Spain.
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.
UMR SILVA AgroParisTech Nancy, INRAE, Université de Lorraine, och MNHN, France.
Universidade de Vigo, Faculty of Biology, Vigo, 36310, Spain.
European Forest Institute, Resilience Programme, Bonn, 53113, Germany.
European Forest Institute, Governance Programme, Bonn, 53113, Germany.
Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, Poland.
Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Huddinge, Sweden.
Institute of Silviculture, BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
University “Stefan cel Mare” Suceava, Faculty of Forestry, Romania.
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, Lessem, Saint Martin d’Hères, France.
University of Bucharest, Center for Environmental Research, Bucharest, Romania.
Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Geraardsbergen, Belgium.
Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg, Germany.
European Forest Institute / BOKU, Forest Policy Research Network, Vienna, Austria.
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
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2025 (English)In: International forestry review, ISSN 1465-5489, E-ISSN 2053-7778, Vol. 27, no 3, p. 402-430Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Forest biodiversity can be retained by setting aside protected forest areas for nature conservation or by integrating conservation measures inmanaged forests. Societal demands towards forest ecosystem services have changed in favour of conservation ideas, and there is a move towardsmore participatory forest policymaking. This paper investigated the relation between participatory decision-making and forest managementdevelopments within twelve European countries. We assessed a) the development of integration and segregation of nature conservation inforest management and the wider forest landscape, and b) how different groups participate in forest-related policy and management planning.Methodologically, we combined natural and social science to explore if the link between the two could be assessed by means of a multi-expertand multi-disciplinary assessment. We concluded that, in the twelve studied territories, integration of nature conservation in forest managementwas the dominating paradigm, while there is a simultaneous increase in both the areas set aside for nature conservation and the felling to incrementratio. At the same time, there was a noticeable increase in the attention given to nature conservation aspects in the formulation of forestpolicy. However, the relationship between participation in forest policy development/implementation and integrating nature conservation intoforest management was found to be complex. We proposed directions for future research in this domain.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Ingenta, 2025
Keywords
nature conservation, segregation, integration, forest policy, participation, stakeholders
National Category
Forest Science
Research subject
political science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-243888 (URN)10.1505/146554825840319564 (DOI)2-s2.0-105016762327 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas
2025-09-042025-09-042025-10-03Bibliographically approved