Browsing by Author "Beland Lindahl, Karin"

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Food, Paper, Wood, or Energy? Global Trends and Future Swedish Forest Use
(2010) Beland Lindahl, Karin; Westholm, Erik
"This paper presents a futures study of international forest trends. The study, produced as part of the Swedish Future Forest program, focuses on global changes of importance for future Swedish forest use. It is based on previous international research, policy documents, and 24 interviews with selected key experts and/or actors related to the forest sector, and its findings will provide a basis for future research priorities. The forest sector, here defined as the economic, social, and cultural contributions to life and human welfare derived from forest and forest-based activities, faces major change. Four areas stand out as particularly important: changing energy systems, emerging international climate policies, changing governance systems, and shifting global land use systems. We argue that global developments are, and will be, important for future Swedish forest use. The forest sector is in transition and forest-, energy, climate- and global land use issues are likely to become increasingly intertwined. Therefore, the 'forest sector' must be disembedded and approached as an open system in interplay with other systems."
Understanding Consistencies and Gaps Between Desired Forest Futures: An Analysis of Visions from Stakeholder Groups in Sweden
(2016) Sandström, Camila; Carlsson-Kanyama, Annika; Beland Lindahl, Karin; Mossberg Sonnek, Karin; Mossing, Annika; Nordin, Annika; Nordström, Eva-Maria; Räty, Ritta
"Conflicting perspectives on forests has for a long time challenged forest policy development in Sweden. Disagreements about forest futures create intractable deadlocks when stakeholders talk past each other. The purpose of this study is to move beyond this situation through the application of participatory backcasting. By comparing visions of the future forest among stakeholder groups, we highlight contemporary trajectories and identify changes that were conceived as desirable. We worked with four groups: the Biomass and Bioenergy group, the Conservation group, the Sami Livelihood group and the Recreation and Rural Development group; in total representatives from 40 organizations participated in workshops articulating the groups’ visions. Our results show well-known tensions such as intrinsic versus instrumental values but also new ones concerning forests’ social values. Identified synergies include prioritization of rural development, new valued-added forest products and diversified forest management. The results may feed directly into forest policy processes facilitating the process and break current deadlocks."