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Editorial
. 2021 Dec;50(12):2129-2137.
doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01647-2.

Forest environmental frontiers around the globe: Old patterns and new trends in forest governance

Georg Winkel  1 , Metodi Sotirov  2 , Cassandra Moseley  3
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Editorial

Forest environmental frontiers around the globe: Old patterns and new trends in forest governance

Georg Winkel et al. Ambio. 2021 Dec.

Abstract

Forests are subject to a huge variety of often competing socio-economic demands and environmental change. This paper assesses the related conflicts that occur along what we label to be a "Global Forest Environmental Frontier". Assessing 11 contributions to a special issue on the same topic, it summarizes the main contents of these papers and concludes with an assessment of major trends. The contributions to the special issue take both a regional and topic-related approach, assessing forest environmental conflicts on all five forested continents and investigating issues such as forest biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental justice and equity, development, and forest management and conservation discourses. Taken together, they provide an overview on the multiple facets of the Global Forest Environmental Frontier, but also identify some shared patterns and trajectories, which are outlined at the end of this paper.

Keywords: Conservation; Environmental governance; Forest policy; Forest use; Natural resource policy.

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