Teaching Forests as Living Museums: Case Study Research in Innovative Practices that Further National, Community, and Environmental Sustainability
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Issue Date
2025
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Rooyakkers, Melody
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School of environment and sustainability
Abstract
Teaching Forests are physical entities with numerous attributes for human well-being, including ecological services (e.g., flood control, carbon storage relevant to climate change), provision of timber and non-timber forest harvests, health, and social benefits, and are places of spiritual value. In response to increasingly changing forest environments, Teaching Forest management requires innovative and proactive measures to integrate environmental, social, and economic imperatives in forest sustainability. Using an inductive approach, attributes, and activities of 54 Teaching Forests in the Northern Hemisphere, selected from Canada, the United States of America, and Europe, were reviewed online and from email interviews of management to identify three types of innovation: i) product, ii) processes, and iii) organizational change mechanisms. This study explores the opportunities, challenges, and innovative solutions of Teaching Forests and the potential for transferability of these innovations to Northern Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canada.
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2025