What does a just sustainability transition mean?
We will refine the understanding of forest owners’ and professionals’ knowledge, networks, and practices, identifying leverage points–practices and places where small shifts could enable large-scale changes toward more resilient practices. We aim at co-creating sustainable forest management practices and accelerating the actor-driven cultural transition in forest use.
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The cultural changes of the sustainability transition
We will refine the understanding of forest owners’ and professionals’ knowledge, networks, and practices, identifying leverage points–practices and places where small shifts could enable large-scale changes toward more resilient practices. We aim at co-creating sustainable forest management practices and accelerating the actor-driven cultural transition in forest use.
Business sector transition toward resilience practices
We study business sector efforts to integrate resilience into the efficiency-oriented forest utilization strategies and practices, investigate business’ innovation for novel forms of regenerative organising in the context of forests, and assess the ecological and social sustainability impacts of these actions.
Governance & sustainability transition
We will acquire a systematic understanding of the tensions and opportunities that are connected to the design and implementation of policies affecting forest use. We study the justness issues and transition accelerators and co-create transition pathways employing systemic modelling and interactive futures workshops. The research yields new knowledge on how a just sustainability governance transition could be implemented.
Ecological limits of sustainable & resilient forestry
We will evaluate how forest management and timber extraction can co-occur while striving to not exceed the ecological limits of sustainability. We will employ the use of forest simulations and optimizations to quantify and propose solutions to guide sustainable forestry practices.
Transition to a sustainable forest sector
Our goal is to generate the integrated knowledge needed to develop a resilient forest sector grounded on improved recognition and management of inherent human-environment interdependencies. We will provide an in-depth understanding of forests as social-ecological systems (SES) and investigate the potential and risks of different interventions to shift entire forest SES to more sustainable states.
Interaction and impact of the research
We actively participate in the social debate about the just green transition in the forest sector. We organise events and campaigns with private, public and third sector partners. We monitor domestic and EU-level legislation in the field, and comment on it with policy recommendations. We will do our best to communicate the transition clearly, interactively and broadly.
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