Continuous Cover Forestry Practitioners in a Clear-cutting-oriented System: Assessing the Potential to Foster the Practice

Recently, changes in society have brought about the rediscovery of continuous cover forestry (CCF) as a forest management approach that helps to create multifunctional forests. However, practice CCF is only used relatively small area world, and its development potential unclear. We studied owners practising act niche experimenters provide clear-cutting-oriented Estonian with experience for specific needs. adopt multi-level perspective socio-technical transitions, which proposes owners’ silvicultural choices develop are stabilised complex, change-resistant cross-sectoral framework formed by actors’ networks, material artefacts rules. The spread alternative depends on susceptibility this framework, but also ability form experimental niches: protected “incubation rooms” change. To explore potential, we visited eighteen forests interviewed their study experiences enhancement CCF. Our qualitative analysis demonstrates wider adoption hindered due several lock-in mechanisms supported related sectors. Some can apply even within present particular social embedding. it unlikely will start using unless changes. propose an analytical tool enforce formation among owners, necessity nearest future may increase.