Sammanfattning

The future of forests is a controversial issue in Sweden and elsewhere. Different stakeholder groups differ in the importance they give to roles they envision forests should have in, for example, the national economy, the protection of biodiversity and sustainable use of ecosystem services, and in mitigating climate change. We used participatory backcasting, a solution-oriented form of scenario analysis, as a method to identify stakeholders' various views as to what constitutes a desirable future forest in Sweden. By involving key stakeholders, we wanted to explore how to broaden the scope of potential solutions to the controversial issue of forest futures by analyzing goals, measures and policy instruments in order to form a bridge between stakeholders' policy objectives, and the instruments and support tools they would like to use to implement those policies. Preferences for particular policy instruments varied considerably among the stakeholder groups. In line with the literature, our study confirms that policy instruments are not mere empty vessels, but represent particular policy ideas, objectives and outlooks, and can show how stakeholders want forests to be governed in the future.

Nyckelord

Governance; Participatory backcasting; Ecosystem services; Policy instruments; Scenarios

Publicerad i

Forest Policy and Economics
2020, Volym: 111, artikelnummer: 102051
Utgivare: ELSEVIER

SLU författare

• Nordström, Eva-Maria

  • Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Mossing, Annika

  • Faculty of Forest Sciences, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Nordin, Annika

  • Institutionen för skoglig genetik och växtfysiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

Naturupplevelser och hälsa


Globala målen

Skydda, återställa och främja ett hållbart nyttjande av landbaserade ekosystem, hållbart bruka skogar, bekämpa ökenspridning, hejda och vrida tillbaka markförstöringen samt hejda förlusten av biologisk mångfald
Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser


UKÄ forskningsämne

Nationalekonomi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102051

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/104686