Local ecological knowledge and the land use practices of forest resource users who rely on
this form of knowledge play a crucial role for biodiversity conservation in managed forests …

Forests are sources of wood, non‐timber forest products and ecosystems services and
goods that benefit society as a whole, and are especially important to rural livelihoods …

This essay offers a critical engagement with the ideal of policy relevant environmental
knowledge. Using examples in environmental governance and conservation, it argues that …

Summary Community Forest Management (CFM)—ranging from community-based to co-
management regimes—has become an influential approach in the management of forests …

In view of a continuing global decrease of forest cover, many authors mention forest
governance as a basic concept contributing to reduced deforestation, specifically in the …

After state-centered and market-centered approaches have driven international
development cooperation activities in previous decades, improved governance has now …

In this paper, we analyse how and why domestic forest policies in Europe have responded
to pressures to integrate biodiversity conservation, climate and bioenergy policies. We use …

In this article, we explore why conservation schemes that have positive outcomes through
the participation of local communities cannot necessarily be deemed as just. We observe …

Sustainability reporting (SR) has become a well-entrenched practice in the mining sector.
Failure to adequately live up to societal expectations is now considered a significant threat …

The eight contributions in this special issue have been elicited from the First IUFRO All-
Division-9-Conference, held in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, during 8-11 May 2012. The …