TY - JOUR

T1 - Seeing the Forest for the Trees

T2 - Managing Social Conflict and Forest Restoration

AU - Daniels, Steven E.

AU - Emborg, Jens

AU - Walker, Gregg B.

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - This paper examines the role that social conflict is likely to play in forest restoration projects. A definition of conflict as “perceived goalinterference among interdependent parties” serves as a point of departure for the discussion, and the nature of forest restoration conflict issystematically examined by focusing on each aspect of the definition: perceptions, goal interference, the parties, and their interdependence.Agencies undertaking restoration projects are encouraged to adopt a discourse orientation, wherein they recognize that 1) their publicinvolvement efforts are creating a discourse that can incorporate a wide array of values and voices and 2) groups may create competingdiscourses if they feel that the agency’s process disenfranchises them.

AB - This paper examines the role that social conflict is likely to play in forest restoration projects. A definition of conflict as “perceived goalinterference among interdependent parties” serves as a point of departure for the discussion, and the nature of forest restoration conflict issystematically examined by focusing on each aspect of the definition: perceptions, goal interference, the parties, and their interdependence.Agencies undertaking restoration projects are encouraged to adopt a discourse orientation, wherein they recognize that 1) their publicinvolvement efforts are creating a discourse that can incorporate a wide array of values and voices and 2) groups may create competingdiscourses if they feel that the agency’s process disenfranchises them.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 6

JO - Tree and Forestry Science and Biotechnology

JF - Tree and Forestry Science and Biotechnology

SN - 1752-3753

IS - (Special Issue 1)

ER -