Governing Forests Through Transformative Change: Emerging Policy Pathways and Perspectives (Advances in Global Change Research, 70)

Forests have become a key topic in ongoing debates about sustainability, as they lie at the intersection of climate change, biodiversity loss, competing land uses and evolving demands on the bioeconomy.In Europe and around the world, forest governance is increasingly influenced by overlapping policy areas, multi-level and cross-sectoral institutional structures, and conflicting societal expectations and demands.These pressures raise an important question: what constitutes transformative change in forest governance, and how can it be achieved in practice?This edited volume provides an integrative, analytically grounded account of European forest policy and governance, combining conceptual foundations with empirical and cross-cutting perspectives.The initial chapters clarify theoretical approaches in forest policy research and introduce transformation-oriented frameworks.The book then examines governance in practice within the European Union (EU), where forest-related policymaking is cha