| Summary: | New challenges are facing our forest and woodland landscapes. An increasing number of goods and services should be provided more efficiently in the same forest. At the same time decisions about what actually takes place locally is determined more and more at transnational and even global levels. In addition, energy supply and global climate change scenarios suggest that increased levels of uncertainty need to be handled. Such multilevel links means that use of forests and woodland imply extensive export of both positive and negative economic, ecological and socio-cultural footprints at different scales, usually without being aware of them. The Conference is a joint project initiated by the Norwegian Directorate of Nature Management (DN) and North-Trondelag University College (HiNT) in cooperation with Archangelsk State Technical University (ASTU), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Tampere College, Kuru Inst. of Forestry (TC-KiF) and Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) with Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) as a main sponsor.
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