Land Use Planning and Swedish Forest Governance

The research evaluates the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan) as a tool for managing conflicts between industrial forestry and Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding in Sweden. The analysis finds that the tool fails to improve procedural justice and instead privileges forestry-centered perspectives, potentially perpetuating existing injustices in forest governance without broader institutional reform.

• The Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan) provides minimal improvements to procedural justice and reinforces the unequal distribution of forest resource burdens and benefits by favoring forestry-centered representations of land use conflicts.
• Due to the current institutional and legal framework, the tool is expected to maintain existing conflicts and reproduce injustices within Swedish land use and forest governance unless institutional reforms are implemented.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). Land Use Planning and Swedish Forest Governance. https://www.sei.org/publications/land-use-planning-swedish-forest-governance/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Land Use Planning and Swedish Forest Governance. 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/land-use-planning-swedish-forest-governance/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025land, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Land Use Planning and Swedish Forest Governance}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/land-use-planning-swedish-forest-governance/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }