| Summary: | The paper explores the challenges and changesbrought to the forest industrial sector in Russia byinternationalisation. It analyses the actors affectingthe environmental relations of that field of industry,first, in a global setting and, thereafter, in Russia.Russian forests as contested spaces are then examinedby introducing the conflict over Karelianforests and the efforts for forest certification in theNizhegorodsk Region. Theoretically, the paper drawsfrom discussions on relational spaces. It is concludedthat while the networks transgressing scalar limitsare essentially non-territorial, as a result of negotiationsbetween the actors involved in these networksnew territories in the Russian forest landscape areproduced.
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