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标题：Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest Initiatives: Adaptive Governance Toward Sustainable Forest Management?
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作者：Marine Elbakidze ; Per K Angelstam ; Camilla Sandström 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2010
卷号：15
期号：2
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Building the adaptive capacity of interlinked social and ecological systems is assumed toimprove implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM) policies. One mechanism is collaborativelearning by continuous evaluation, communication, and transdisciplinary knowledge production. TheModel Forest (MF) concept, developed in Canada, is intended to encourage all dimensions of sustainabledevelopment through collaboration among stakeholders of forest resources in a geographical area. Becausethe MF approach encompasses both social and ecological systems, it can be seen as a process aimed atimproving adaptive capacity to deal with uncertainty and change. We analyzed multi-stakeholderapproaches used in four MF initiatives representing social–ecological systems with different governancelegacies and economic histories in the northwest of the Russian Federation (Komi MF and Pskov MF) andin Sweden (Vilhelmina MF and the Foundation S.fsen Forests in the Bergslagen region). To describe themotivations behind development of the initiative and the governance systems, we used qualitative open-ended interviews and analyzed reports and official documents. The initial driving forces for establishingnew local governance arrangements were different in all four cases. All MFs were characterized by multi-level and multi-sector collaboration. However, the distribution of power among stakeholders ranged fromclearly top down in the Russian Federation to largely bottom up in Sweden. All MF initiatives shared threemain challenges: (a) to develop governance arrangements that include representative actors andstakeholders, (b) to combine top-down and bottom-up approaches to governance, and (c) to coordinatedifferent sectors' modes of landscape governance. We conclude that, in principle, the MF concept is apromising approach to multi-stakeholder collaboration. However, to understand the local and regionaldimensions of sustainability, and the level of adaptability of such multi-stakeholder collaboration initiatives,empirical studies of outcomes are needed. To assess the adaptive capacity, the states and trends of economic,ecological, social, and cultural dimensions in actual landscapes need to be linked to how the multi-stakeholder collaboration develops and performs over the long term
关键词：boreal forest; landscape; multi-level collaboration; sustainability; sustainable development