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This chapter discusses how the future is handled by actors in the present. It investigates how actors’ perceptions of the future—its challenges and its opportunities—influence their strategies and actions. The chapter starts with a frame analysis exploring the visions of a range of actors relevant to Swedish forest sector development. It aims to describe major divisions in the debate on future forest use and on a variety of ways to deal with uncertainty, ambiguity, and ignorance. The analysis relates to international processes important to the Swedish forest sector and feeds into a discussion of competing pathways to “sustainability”.
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Beland Lindahl, K. (2015). Actors’ Perceptions and Strategies: Forests and Pathways to Sustainability. In: Westholm, E., Beland Lindahl, K., Kraxner, F. (eds) The Future Use of Nordic Forests. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14218-0_8
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