Table of Contents

Acknowledgement.- Chapter 1. Introduction; E. Carina H. Keskitalo.- Chapter 2: Is there a new European forest owner? The institutional context E.; Carina H. Keskitalo, Gun Lidestav, Heimo Karppinen, Ivana Živojinović.- Chapter 3: Individual forest owners in context; Kerstin Westin, Louise Eriksson, Gun Lidestav, Heimo Karppinen, Katarina Haugen, Annika Nordlund.- Chapter 4 Interactions between forest owners and their forests; Gun Lidestav, Camilla Thellbro, Per Sandström, Torgny Lind, Einar Holm, Olof Olsson, Kerstin Westin, Heimo Karppinen, Andrej Ficko.- Chapter 5. Is there an end to the concentration of businesses and people?; Urban Lindgren, Jonathan Borggren, Svante Karlsson, Rikard H Eriksson, Bram Timmermans.- Chapter 6: Rural-urban policies: changing conceptions of the human-environment relationship; E. Carina H. Keskitalo; Svante Karlsson; Urban Lindgren; Örjan Pettersson, Linda Lundmark, Bill Slee, Mariann Villa, Diana Feliciano.- Chapter 7 Multi-level planning and conflicting interests in the forest landscape; Olof Stjernström, Rein Ahas, Sabina Bergstén, Jeannette Eggers, Hando Hain, Svante Karlsson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Tomas Lämås, Örjan Pettersson, Per Sandström, Karin Öhman.- Chapter 8.  Forests in common and their contribution to local development; Gun Lidestav, Nevenka Bogataj, Paola Gatto, Anna Lawrence, Olof Stjernström, Jenny Wong.- Chapter 9. Conclusions New forest owners under globalised, rural-urban relations; E. Carina H. Keskitalo.

About the Author

E. Carina H. Keskitalo is a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.