#Metsätiede2026
Afternoon parallel session of the Human-Forest Relationship Research Club
Many ecological, social, cultural and economic impacts of forests and forest use do not remain within set geographical or human-constructed borders. Their temporal scales vary, and different impacts may present themselves in unforeseen ways in different temporal dimensions and contexts. Especially in our current networked and digitalized world, forest knowledge, values, practices, and understandings drawing from different contexts also move across official and geographical borders. Finland is a part of the global network of forest cultures.
Human-Forest Relationship Research Club
welcomes participants and presentations of different perspectives and disciplines to our afternoon session. Please join us in considering the impacts of range of human-forest relationships within the global world, for example through the following questions:
- How are agencies related to forest utilization constructed, or how they can be constructed within different spatial and social contexts? What forms of agencies are supported by globalization?
- How are values, beliefs and practices of forests and forest use transferred between different spatial and temporal dimensions?
- What is the importance of local knowledge within global contexts?
- How does the global use of forests influence human-forest relationships in Finland?
- How do Finnish forest-related actors influence human-forest relationships elsewhere in the world?
- Can different actors collectively produce sustainable forest-related values? How? Why not? What challenges and opportunities are involved?
- How Finnish human-forest relationship research can contribute to global research? And vice-versa?
Presentation proposal
- Scientific presentations and abstracts can be either in Finnish or English. Submit the abstract according to the language you wish to give presentation with. We ask that the text in the presentation slides would be in English. In the submitted abstract, please include at least the following issues: How is the presentation connected to the theme of the session? What is the theoretical or methodological background of the presentation? In what study/project is the presentation related to? Which research question or goals does the research/presentation aim to answer to?
Please follow the attached guidelines for an abstract and submit your proposal by August 23, 2026 to Jenni Simkin (jenni . simkin [] luke . fi) or Panu Runko (panu . runko [] luke . fi).
The accepted abstracts will be published in the abstract book of Forest Sciences’ Day. (License CC BY-SA 4.0).