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Marine Elbakidze

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ID3707328
NAMEMarine Elbakidze
GIVEN NAMESMarine
FAMILY NAMEElbakidze
SIGNATUREELBAKIDZE M
AFFILIATIONSSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences
ORCID0000-0003-3658-9761
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS200
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8
  • Post-conflict forest landscape restoration: Sustainability Pathways for Socio-Ecological Recovery and Resilience

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, John A Parrotta et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2025

  • Elucidating human–nature connectedness in three EU countries: A pro‐environmental behaviour perspective

    Open Access•Grzegorz Mikusiński, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•People and Nature•2023

    Strengthening positive human–nature relationships is seen as a way to more pro‐environmental behaviour and leads to a greater environmental sustainability. Therefore, understanding human–nature relationships has attracted increasing attention among researchers. Nature connectedness is a concept developed to measure such relationships. Since nature connectedness is complex and context dependent phenomenon, more research comparing sociocultural and…

  • Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Diana Surovà et al.•ARTICLE•Landscape and Urban Planning•2021

    Agroforestry landscapes are crucial to human wellbeing; however, they are in sharp decline across Europe. Improved understanding of the complexity of agroforestry landscapes within different biophysical, social-cultural, economic and governance contexts is essential for designing effective policy and management interventions that are more tightly aligned with societal expectations and aspirations. This paper identifies and compares values that pe…

  • The politics of scale in global governance: Do more stringent international forest certification standards protect local rights in Russia

    Open Access•Maria S Tysiachniouk, Constance L Mcdermott et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper interrogates how the increasing stringency of international rules on Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), as reflected in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)’s certification standards, is shaping the rights afforded indigenous and local communities in Russia. Viewing the FSC as a ‘global governance generating network’ (GGN) that gains rule-making authority through diverse ‘forums of negotiation’ at multiple scales, we examine how i…

  • Articulating FPIC through transnational sustainability standards: A comparative analysis of Forest Stewardship Council’s standard development processes in Canada, Russia and Sweden

    Open Access•Sara Teitelbaum, Maria S Tysiachniouk et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2021•References: 27

  • Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: The Governance and Management Dynamics of Wetland Restoration in a State-Centric, Top-Down Context

    Open Access•Lucas Dawson, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2021

    Dawson, L., M. Elbakidze, M. Schellens, A. Shkaruba, and P. K. Angelstam. 2021. Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context. Ecology and Society 26(1):8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12139-260108

  • Governance of non-wood forest products in Russia and Ukraine: Institutional rules, stakeholder arrangements, and decision-making processes

    Open Access•N Stryamets, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2020•References: 42

  • Model forests in Russia as landscape approach: Demonstration projects or initiatives for learning towards sustainable forest management

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    Implementing sustainable forest management (SFM) policy on the ground is not straightforward, and depends on the social-ecological context. To meet the need for place-based stakeholder collaboration towards regionally adapted knowledge production and learning in support of SFM an integrated landscape approach can assist. Hosting most of the circumboreal forest Russia is a key global player. To transition boreal forestry in the Russian Federation …

  • Defining Landscape Democracy: A Path to Spatial Justice

    Jørgen Primdahl, Lone Søderkvist Kristensen et al.•BOOK•Defining Landscape Democracy•2018

    The paper proposes the explorative concept of ‘democratic landscape’ to interpret the processes underlying the landscape appearance, and in particular its “level of democracy”. In our aim this concept allows to observe not only procedural democracy in decision making concerning landscape, but the whole landscape construction process and the substantive democracy of its results, including roles and interests of different social actors. The paper a…

  • Gender relations in changing agroforestry homegardens in rural Ethiopia

    Open Access•Mersha Gebrehiwot, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 10

  • Stakeholder perspectives of wood-pasture ecosystem services: A case study from Iberian dehesas

    Open Access•Pablo Garrido, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 37

  • Barriers and bridges for intensified wood production in Russia: Insights from the environmental history of a regional logging frontier

    Open Access•Vladimir Naumov, Владимир Наумов et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 7

  • Is spatial planning a collaborative learning process? A case study from a rural–urban gradient in Sweden

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Lucas Dawson et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2015•Cited by: 8•References: 37

  • From economic survival to recreation: Contemporary uses of wild food and medicine in rural Sweden, Ukraine and NW Russia

    Open Access•N Stryamets, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology and…•2015•Cited by: 36•References: 48

    BACKGROUND: There are many ethnobotanical studies on the use of wild plants and mushrooms for food and medicinal treatment in Europe. However, there is a lack of comparative ethnobotanical research on the role of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) as wild food and medicine in local livelihoods in countries with different socio-economic conditions. The aim of this study was to compare the present use of wild food and medicine in three places represe…

  • Solving Problems in Social–Ecological Systems: Definition, Practice and Barriers of Transdisciplinary Research

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 44

    Translating policies about sustainable development as a social process and sustainability outcomes into the real world of social-ecological systems involves several challenges. Hence, research policies advocate improved innovative problem-solving capacity. One approach is transdisciplinary research that integrates research disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners. Drawing upon 14 experiences of problem-solving, we used group modeling…

  • Evaluation of Multi-level Social Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Perspective of a Development Initiative in Bergslagen, Sweden

    Open Access•Robert Axelsson, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 41

    To implement policies about sustainable landscapes and rural development necessitates social learning about states and trends of sustainability indicators, norms that define sustainability, and adaptive multi-level governance. We evaluate the extent to which social learning at multiple governance levels for sustainable landscapes occur in 18 local development initiatives in the network of Sustainable Bergslagen in Sweden. We mapped activities ove…

  • Sustained Yield Forestry in Sweden and Russia: How Does it Correspond to Sustainable Forest Management Policy

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    This paper analyzes how sustained yield (SY) forestry is defined and implemented in Sweden and Russia, two countries with different forest-industrial regimes. We first compare definitions of SY forestry in national legislation and policies. Then we study forest management planning in two large forest management units with respect to: delivered forest products and values, how the harvest level of timber is defined, where the harvest takes place, a…

  • Knowledge Production and Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Seven Steps Using Social–Ecological Systems as Laboratories

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 66

    There are multiple challenges regarding use and governance of landscapes' goods, functions and intangible values for ecosystem health and human well-being. One group of challenges is to measure and assess principal sustainability dimensions through performance targets, so stakeholders have transparent information about states and trends. Another group is to develop adaptive governance at multiple levels, and management of larger geographical area…

  • Protected Area as an Indicator of Ecological Sustainability? A Century of Development in Europe’s Boreal Forest

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 36

    Protected area (PA) is an indicator linked to policies on ecological sustainability. We analyzed area, size, and categories of PAs in the European boreal forest biome in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia from 1900 to 2010. The PA increased from 1.5 × 10(3) ha in 1909 to 2.3 × 10(7) ha in 2010. While the total PA in the boreal biome was 10.8 %, the figures ranged from 17.2 % in the northern, 7.9 % of the middle, and 8.7 % of the southern boreal …

  • Knowledge Production and Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Forewords by the Researchers and Stakeholders

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    This special issue of AMBIO presents a new approach to sustainability science that goes beyond interdisciplinary research. Using coupled natural and human systems, or landscapes, as multiple case studies in Europe's East and West knowledge production and learning toward transdisciplinary research was applied in Sweden, countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. First, the research group Forest-Landscape-Society summarizes the research p…

  • Legal Framework for Biosphere Reserves as Learning Sites for Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Sweden

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Thomas Hahn et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    The Biosphere Reserve (BR) concept aims at encouraging sustainable development (SD) towards sustainability on the ground by promoting three core functions: conservation, development, and logistic support. Sweden and Ukraine exemplify the diverse governance contexts that BRs need to cope with. We assessed how the BR concept and its core functions are captured in national legislations. The results show that the core functions are in different ways …

  • Evidence-Based Knowledge Versus Negotiated Indicators for Assessment of Ecological Sustainability: The Swedish Forest Stewardship Council Standard as a Case Study

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Jean-Michel Roberge et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 49

    Assessing ecological sustainability involves monitoring of indicators and comparison of their states with performance targets that are deemed sustainable. First, a normative model was developed centered on evidence-based knowledge about (a) forest composition, structure, and function at multiple scales, and (b) performance targets derived by quantifying the habitat amount in naturally dynamic forests, and as required for presence of populations o…

  • Measurement, Collaborative Learning and Research for Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services: Landscape Concepts and Europe as Laboratory

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Michael Grodzynskyi et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 58

    Policies at multiple levels pronounce the need to encompass both social and ecological systems in governance and management of natural capital in terms of resources and ecosystems. One approach to knowledge production and learning about landscapes as social-ecological systems is to compare multiple case studies consisting of large spaces and places. We first review the landscape concepts' biophysical, anthropogenic, and intangible dimensions. Sec…

  • Multifaceted Value Profiles of Forest Owner Categories in South Sweden: The River Helge å Catchment as a Case Study

    Open Access•Gustav Richnau, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 50

    Forest landscapes provide benefits from a wide range of goods, function and intangible values. But what are different forest owner categories' profiles of economic use and non-use values? This study focuses on the complex forest ownership pattern of the River Helge å catchment including the Kristianstad Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve in southern Sweden. We made 89 telephone interviews with informants representing the four main forest owner categori…

  • Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning

    Open Access•Robert Axelsson, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 12•References: 46

    Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then matched with verifier variables available for Sweden's…

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  • Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine

    Open Access•Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2011•Cited by: 49•References: 60

  • From economic survival to recreation: Contemporary uses of wild food and medicine in rural Sweden, Ukraine and NW Russia

    Open Access•N Stryamets, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology and…•2015•Cited by: 36•References: 48

    BACKGROUND: There are many ethnobotanical studies on the use of wild plants and mushrooms for food and medicinal treatment in Europe. However, there is a lack of comparative ethnobotanical research on the role of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) as wild food and medicine in local livelihoods in countries with different socio-economic conditions. The aim of this study was to compare the present use of wild food and medicine in three places represe…

  • Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning

    Open Access•Robert Axelsson, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 12•References: 46

    Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then matched with verifier variables available for Sweden's…

  • Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest Initiatives: Adaptive Governance Toward Sustainable Forest Management

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Per K Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2010•Cited by: 11

    Elbakidze, M., P. K. Angelstam, C. Sandström, and R. Axelsson. 2010. Multi-stakeholder collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest initiatives: adaptive governance toward sustainable forest management? Ecology and Society 15(2): 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03334-150214

  • Solving Problems in Social–Ecological Systems: Definition, Practice and Barriers of Transdisciplinary Research

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 44

    Translating policies about sustainable development as a social process and sustainability outcomes into the real world of social-ecological systems involves several challenges. Hence, research policies advocate improved innovative problem-solving capacity. One approach is transdisciplinary research that integrates research disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners. Drawing upon 14 experiences of problem-solving, we used group modeling…

  • Is spatial planning a collaborative learning process? A case study from a rural–urban gradient in Sweden

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Lucas Dawson et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2015•Cited by: 8•References: 37

  • Evaluation of Multi-level Social Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Perspective of a Development Initiative in Bergslagen, Sweden

    Open Access•Robert Axelsson, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 41

    To implement policies about sustainable landscapes and rural development necessitates social learning about states and trends of sustainability indicators, norms that define sustainability, and adaptive multi-level governance. We evaluate the extent to which social learning at multiple governance levels for sustainable landscapes occur in 18 local development initiatives in the network of Sustainable Bergslagen in Sweden. We mapped activities ove…

  • Knowledge Production and Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Seven Steps Using Social–Ecological Systems as Laboratories

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 66

    There are multiple challenges regarding use and governance of landscapes' goods, functions and intangible values for ecosystem health and human well-being. One group of challenges is to measure and assess principal sustainability dimensions through performance targets, so stakeholders have transparent information about states and trends. Another group is to develop adaptive governance at multiple levels, and management of larger geographical area…

  • Model forests in Russia as landscape approach: Demonstration projects or initiatives for learning towards sustainable forest management

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    Implementing sustainable forest management (SFM) policy on the ground is not straightforward, and depends on the social-ecological context. To meet the need for place-based stakeholder collaboration towards regionally adapted knowledge production and learning in support of SFM an integrated landscape approach can assist. Hosting most of the circumboreal forest Russia is a key global player. To transition boreal forestry in the Russian Federation …

  • Stakeholder perspectives of wood-pasture ecosystem services: A case study from Iberian dehesas

    Open Access•Pablo Garrido, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 37

  • Measurement, Collaborative Learning and Research for Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services: Landscape Concepts and Europe as Laboratory

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Michael Grodzynskyi et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 58

    Policies at multiple levels pronounce the need to encompass both social and ecological systems in governance and management of natural capital in terms of resources and ecosystems. One approach to knowledge production and learning about landscapes as social-ecological systems is to compare multiple case studies consisting of large spaces and places. We first review the landscape concepts' biophysical, anthropogenic, and intangible dimensions. Sec…

  • Learning About the History of Landscape Use for the Future: Consequences for Ecological and Social Systems in Swedish Bergslagen

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 43

    Barriers and bridges to implement policies about sustainable development and sustainability commonly depend on the past development of social-ecological systems. Production of metals required integration of use of ore, streams for energy, and wood for bioenergy and construction, as well as of multiple societal actors. Focusing on the Swedish Bergslagen region as a case study we (1) describe the phases of natural resource use triggered by metallur…

  • Evidence-Based Knowledge Versus Negotiated Indicators for Assessment of Ecological Sustainability: The Swedish Forest Stewardship Council Standard as a Case Study

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Jean-Michel Roberge et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 49

    Assessing ecological sustainability involves monitoring of indicators and comparison of their states with performance targets that are deemed sustainable. First, a normative model was developed centered on evidence-based knowledge about (a) forest composition, structure, and function at multiple scales, and (b) performance targets derived by quantifying the habitat amount in naturally dynamic forests, and as required for presence of populations o…

  • Multifaceted Value Profiles of Forest Owner Categories in South Sweden: The River Helge å Catchment as a Case Study

    Open Access•Gustav Richnau, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 50

    Forest landscapes provide benefits from a wide range of goods, function and intangible values. But what are different forest owner categories' profiles of economic use and non-use values? This study focuses on the complex forest ownership pattern of the River Helge å catchment including the Kristianstad Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve in southern Sweden. We made 89 telephone interviews with informants representing the four main forest owner categori…

  • Sustained Yield Forestry in Sweden and Russia: How Does it Correspond to Sustainable Forest Management Policy

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    This paper analyzes how sustained yield (SY) forestry is defined and implemented in Sweden and Russia, two countries with different forest-industrial regimes. We first compare definitions of SY forestry in national legislation and policies. Then we study forest management planning in two large forest management units with respect to: delivered forest products and values, how the harvest level of timber is defined, where the harvest takes place, a…

  • The Polish Promotional Forest Complexes: Objectives, implementation and outcomes towards sustainable forest management

    Open Access•Małgorzata Blicharska, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 8

  • Gender relations in changing agroforestry homegardens in rural Ethiopia

    Open Access•Mersha Gebrehiwot, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 10

  • Barriers and bridges for intensified wood production in Russia: Insights from the environmental history of a regional logging frontier

    Open Access•Vladimir Naumov, Владимир Наумов et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 7

  • Protected Area as an Indicator of Ecological Sustainability? A Century of Development in Europe’s Boreal Forest

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 36

    Protected area (PA) is an indicator linked to policies on ecological sustainability. We analyzed area, size, and categories of PAs in the European boreal forest biome in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia from 1900 to 2010. The PA increased from 1.5 × 10(3) ha in 1909 to 2.3 × 10(7) ha in 2010. While the total PA in the boreal biome was 10.8 %, the figures ranged from 17.2 % in the northern, 7.9 % of the middle, and 8.7 % of the southern boreal …

  • Legal Framework for Biosphere Reserves as Learning Sites for Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Sweden

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Thomas Hahn et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    The Biosphere Reserve (BR) concept aims at encouraging sustainable development (SD) towards sustainability on the ground by promoting three core functions: conservation, development, and logistic support. Sweden and Ukraine exemplify the diverse governance contexts that BRs need to cope with. We assessed how the BR concept and its core functions are captured in national legislations. The results show that the core functions are in different ways …

  • The politics of scale in global governance: Do more stringent international forest certification standards protect local rights in Russia

    Open Access•Maria S Tysiachniouk, Constance L Mcdermott et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper interrogates how the increasing stringency of international rules on Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), as reflected in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)’s certification standards, is shaping the rights afforded indigenous and local communities in Russia. Viewing the FSC as a ‘global governance generating network’ (GGN) that gains rule-making authority through diverse ‘forums of negotiation’ at multiple scales, we examine how i…

  • Knowledge Production and Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Forewords by the Researchers and Stakeholders

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    This special issue of AMBIO presents a new approach to sustainability science that goes beyond interdisciplinary research. Using coupled natural and human systems, or landscapes, as multiple case studies in Europe's East and West knowledge production and learning toward transdisciplinary research was applied in Sweden, countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. First, the research group Forest-Landscape-Society summarizes the research p…

  • Global Change Research in the Carpathian Mountain Region

    Open Access•Astrid Björnsen Gurung, Anita Bokwa et al.•ARTICLE•Mountain Research and Development•2009

    The Carpathian Mountains in Europe are a biodiversity hot spot; harbor many relatively undisturbed ecosystems; and are still rich in seminatural, traditional landscapes. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Carpathians have experienced widespread land use change, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Climate change, as an additional driver, may increase the effect of such changes in the future. Based on a workshop organized by the Sci…

  • Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest Initiatives: Adaptive Governance Toward Sustainable Forest Management

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Per K Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2010•Cited by: 11

    Elbakidze, M., P. K. Angelstam, C. Sandström, and R. Axelsson. 2010. Multi-stakeholder collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest initiatives: adaptive governance toward sustainable forest management? Ecology and Society 15(2): 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03334-150214

  • Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine

    Open Access•Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2011•Cited by: 49•References: 60

  • The Polish Promotional Forest Complexes: Objectives, implementation and outcomes towards sustainable forest management

    Open Access•Małgorzata Blicharska, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 8

  • Solving Problems in Social–Ecological Systems: Definition, Practice and Barriers of Transdisciplinary Research

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 44

    Translating policies about sustainable development as a social process and sustainability outcomes into the real world of social-ecological systems involves several challenges. Hence, research policies advocate improved innovative problem-solving capacity. One approach is transdisciplinary research that integrates research disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners. Drawing upon 14 experiences of problem-solving, we used group modeling…

  • Evaluation of Multi-level Social Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Perspective of a Development Initiative in Bergslagen, Sweden

    Open Access•Robert Axelsson, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 41

    To implement policies about sustainable landscapes and rural development necessitates social learning about states and trends of sustainability indicators, norms that define sustainability, and adaptive multi-level governance. We evaluate the extent to which social learning at multiple governance levels for sustainable landscapes occur in 18 local development initiatives in the network of Sustainable Bergslagen in Sweden. We mapped activities ove…

  • Sustained Yield Forestry in Sweden and Russia: How Does it Correspond to Sustainable Forest Management Policy

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    This paper analyzes how sustained yield (SY) forestry is defined and implemented in Sweden and Russia, two countries with different forest-industrial regimes. We first compare definitions of SY forestry in national legislation and policies. Then we study forest management planning in two large forest management units with respect to: delivered forest products and values, how the harvest level of timber is defined, where the harvest takes place, a…

  • Knowledge Production and Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Seven Steps Using Social–Ecological Systems as Laboratories

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 66

    There are multiple challenges regarding use and governance of landscapes' goods, functions and intangible values for ecosystem health and human well-being. One group of challenges is to measure and assess principal sustainability dimensions through performance targets, so stakeholders have transparent information about states and trends. Another group is to develop adaptive governance at multiple levels, and management of larger geographical area…

  • Protected Area as an Indicator of Ecological Sustainability? A Century of Development in Europe’s Boreal Forest

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 36

    Protected area (PA) is an indicator linked to policies on ecological sustainability. We analyzed area, size, and categories of PAs in the European boreal forest biome in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia from 1900 to 2010. The PA increased from 1.5 × 10(3) ha in 1909 to 2.3 × 10(7) ha in 2010. While the total PA in the boreal biome was 10.8 %, the figures ranged from 17.2 % in the northern, 7.9 % of the middle, and 8.7 % of the southern boreal …

  • Knowledge Production and Learning for Sustainable Landscapes: Forewords by the Researchers and Stakeholders

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    This special issue of AMBIO presents a new approach to sustainability science that goes beyond interdisciplinary research. Using coupled natural and human systems, or landscapes, as multiple case studies in Europe's East and West knowledge production and learning toward transdisciplinary research was applied in Sweden, countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. First, the research group Forest-Landscape-Society summarizes the research p…

  • Legal Framework for Biosphere Reserves as Learning Sites for Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Sweden

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Thomas Hahn et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    The Biosphere Reserve (BR) concept aims at encouraging sustainable development (SD) towards sustainability on the ground by promoting three core functions: conservation, development, and logistic support. Sweden and Ukraine exemplify the diverse governance contexts that BRs need to cope with. We assessed how the BR concept and its core functions are captured in national legislations. The results show that the core functions are in different ways …

  • Evidence-Based Knowledge Versus Negotiated Indicators for Assessment of Ecological Sustainability: The Swedish Forest Stewardship Council Standard as a Case Study

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Jean-Michel Roberge et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 49

    Assessing ecological sustainability involves monitoring of indicators and comparison of their states with performance targets that are deemed sustainable. First, a normative model was developed centered on evidence-based knowledge about (a) forest composition, structure, and function at multiple scales, and (b) performance targets derived by quantifying the habitat amount in naturally dynamic forests, and as required for presence of populations o…

  • Measurement, Collaborative Learning and Research for Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services: Landscape Concepts and Europe as Laboratory

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Michael Grodzynskyi et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 58

    Policies at multiple levels pronounce the need to encompass both social and ecological systems in governance and management of natural capital in terms of resources and ecosystems. One approach to knowledge production and learning about landscapes as social-ecological systems is to compare multiple case studies consisting of large spaces and places. We first review the landscape concepts' biophysical, anthropogenic, and intangible dimensions. Sec…

  • Multifaceted Value Profiles of Forest Owner Categories in South Sweden: The River Helge å Catchment as a Case Study

    Open Access•Gustav Richnau, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 50

    Forest landscapes provide benefits from a wide range of goods, function and intangible values. But what are different forest owner categories' profiles of economic use and non-use values? This study focuses on the complex forest ownership pattern of the River Helge å catchment including the Kristianstad Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve in southern Sweden. We made 89 telephone interviews with informants representing the four main forest owner categori…

  • Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning

    Open Access•Robert Axelsson, Per Angelstam et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 12•References: 46

    Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then matched with verifier variables available for Sweden's…

  • Learning About the History of Landscape Use for the Future: Consequences for Ecological and Social Systems in Swedish Bergslagen

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Kjell Andersson et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 43

    Barriers and bridges to implement policies about sustainable development and sustainability commonly depend on the past development of social-ecological systems. Production of metals required integration of use of ore, streams for energy, and wood for bioenergy and construction, as well as of multiple societal actors. Focusing on the Swedish Bergslagen region as a case study we (1) describe the phases of natural resource use triggered by metallur…

  • Is spatial planning a collaborative learning process? A case study from a rural–urban gradient in Sweden

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Lucas Dawson et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2015•Cited by: 8•References: 37

  • From economic survival to recreation: Contemporary uses of wild food and medicine in rural Sweden, Ukraine and NW Russia

    Open Access•N Stryamets, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology and…•2015•Cited by: 36•References: 48

    BACKGROUND: There are many ethnobotanical studies on the use of wild plants and mushrooms for food and medicinal treatment in Europe. However, there is a lack of comparative ethnobotanical research on the role of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) as wild food and medicine in local livelihoods in countries with different socio-economic conditions. The aim of this study was to compare the present use of wild food and medicine in three places represe…

  • Barriers and bridges for intensified wood production in Russia: Insights from the environmental history of a regional logging frontier

    Open Access•Vladimir Naumov, Владимир Наумов et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 7

  • Stakeholder perspectives of wood-pasture ecosystem services: A case study from Iberian dehesas

    Open Access•Pablo Garrido, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 37

  • Defining Landscape Democracy: A Path to Spatial Justice

    Jørgen Primdahl, Lone Søderkvist Kristensen et al.•BOOK•Defining Landscape Democracy•2018

    The paper proposes the explorative concept of ‘democratic landscape’ to interpret the processes underlying the landscape appearance, and in particular its “level of democracy”. In our aim this concept allows to observe not only procedural democracy in decision making concerning landscape, but the whole landscape construction process and the substantive democracy of its results, including roles and interests of different social actors. The paper a…

  • Gender relations in changing agroforestry homegardens in rural Ethiopia

    Open Access•Mersha Gebrehiwot, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 10

  • Model forests in Russia as landscape approach: Demonstration projects or initiatives for learning towards sustainable forest management

    Open Access•Per Angelstam, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Forest Policy and Economics•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    Implementing sustainable forest management (SFM) policy on the ground is not straightforward, and depends on the social-ecological context. To meet the need for place-based stakeholder collaboration towards regionally adapted knowledge production and learning in support of SFM an integrated landscape approach can assist. Hosting most of the circumboreal forest Russia is a key global player. To transition boreal forestry in the Russian Federation …

  • Governance of non-wood forest products in Russia and Ukraine: Institutional rules, stakeholder arrangements, and decision-making processes

    Open Access•N Stryamets, Marine Elbakidze et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2020•References: 42

  • Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom

    Open Access•Marine Elbakidze, Diana Surovà et al.•ARTICLE•Landscape and Urban Planning•2021

    Agroforestry landscapes are crucial to human wellbeing; however, they are in sharp decline across Europe. Improved understanding of the complexity of agroforestry landscapes within different biophysical, social-cultural, economic and governance contexts is essential for designing effective policy and management interventions that are more tightly aligned with societal expectations and aspirations. This paper identifies and compares values that pe…

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