Abstract
Building the adaptive capacity of interlinked social and ecological systems is assumed to improve implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM) policies. One mechanism is collaborative lear ...
Highlights
Since the discourse about sustainable development (SD) emerged during the 1980s, a range of international and national policies, as well as implementation approaches, related to the sustainable use of renewable natural resources have been formulated (e.g., Kennedy et al 2001, Campbell and Sayer 2003, Innes and Hoen 2005, Sastamoinen 2005, Baker 2006)
Realising the contemporary ambitions of SD as a process and sustainability as an objective requires that users of forest goods, ecosystem services, and landscape values and other stakeholders collaborate at multiple levels and develop the adaptive capacity to deal with uncertainties and risks (e.g., Mayers and Bass 2004)
Current national and international policies about sustainable forest management (SFM) imply a commitment to deliver a sustained yield of timber, ecological sustainability, and rural development including the need to satisfy social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development (e. g., Innes and Hoen 2005)
Summary
Since the discourse about sustainable development (SD) emerged during the 1980s, a range of international and national policies, as well as implementation approaches, related to the sustainable use of renewable natural resources have been formulated (e.g., Kennedy et al 2001, Campbell and Sayer 2003, Innes and Hoen 2005, Sastamoinen 2005, Baker 2006). Or implicitly, all these approaches acknowledge the complexity of ecosystems and social systems and seek to address the challenges of accommodating multiple users’ claims and interests. This involves making decisions that support the visions of social learning for sustainability; facilitating the planning, negotiation, and implementation of activities across an entire geographical area; learning from other similar initiatives; and supporting the development through continuous evaluations and synthesis of the results and progress (e.g., Lee 1993, Boyle et al 2001). Scholars have studied multi-stakeholder collaboration within multiple societal sectors and levels of organization (e.g., Folke et al 2005, Olsson et al 2007)
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