Forests in common: Learning from diversity of community forest arrangements in Europe

Autor: Nevenka Bogataj, Anna Lawrence, Paola Gatto, Gun Lidestav
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Conservation of Natural Resources
Multi-level governance
Horizontal and vertical
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Geography
Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Forests
01 natural sciences
Property rights
Grounded inquiry
Political science
Environmental Chemistry
Economic geography
Natural resource management
multi-level governance
Multilevel governance
Forest ownership
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Environmental justice
Sweden
Adaptive capacity
Ecology
021107 urban & regional planning
Forestry
Social innovation
General Medicine
Environmental Policy
forest ownership
grounded inquiry
social innovation
multi-level governance
property rights
sustainability
Europe
Environmental governance
Italy
Scotland
Sustainability
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (Peace and Conflict Research and Studies on Sustainable Society)
Diversity (politics)
Research Article
Zdroj: Ambio
Università degli Studi di Padova-IRIS
ISSN: 1654-7209
Popis: Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them inclusively. Building on methods to make sense of diversity, we use reflexive grounded inquiry in fifteen cases in Italy, Scotland, Slovenia and Sweden. Within four dimensions (forest, community, relationships between them, and relationships with wider society), we identify 43 subdimensions to describe them collectively. Our approach shows how European arrangements contribute to wider discourses of collective natural resource management. Both tradition and innovation in Europe inform options for environmental governance. Arrangements challenge the distinction between ‘communities of place’ and ‘communities of interest’, with implications for social and environmental justice. They exemplify multilevel environmental governance through both vertical and horizontal connections. Emerging from long histories of political and environmental pressures, they have a role in enhancing society’s connection with nature and adaptive capacity. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-020-01377-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorised users.
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