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Privately owned forests and woodlands in Spain: Changing resilience strategies towards a forest-based bioeconomy

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Some marginalized Spanish forest areas view the circular bioeconomy proposal as an alternative solution and an opportunity required by both global and local challenges. This article aims to contribute to decision-making and to a forest-bioeconomy proposal design from a qualitative perspective by analysing resilience strategies in the south of the aragonese region on three levels, namely private forest owners (PFO) practices, resources/assets, and governance, and three scales, forest, community and territory. The literature review on a resilience thinking approach and stakeholders’ perceptions have contributed to the design of a resilience strategic framework (RSF) as an analytical tool for measuring the possibilities of substantial change in the socio-ecosystem with associated attributes in five resilience strategic areas. The study concludes that PFO current strategies (persistence and safeguarding) do not suffice alone to create a territorial policy plan and change scenarios. New attributes based on adaptation, creation and transformation towards rural recapitalisation are required. The change would target increasing interdependence (between sectors, stakeholders and territories), improving capabilities in the context and increasing stakeholder and community control. This would involve overcoming current barriers and designing ‘resilience governance’ based on integration, innovation and future orientation to rural transformation.

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  • Sanz-Hernández, Alexia, 2021. "Privately owned forests and woodlands in Spain: Changing resilience strategies towards a forest-based bioeconomy," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:100:y:2021:i:c:s026483771931806x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104922
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