ABSTRACT

The toolbox is a set of methods, approaches, and other tools that can be used in various ways to meet the objectives of Reflexive Forestry. The Reflexive Forestry toolbox includes: transtemporal studies, collaborative processes, tailored forest management, and feedback and learning. Transtemporal studies identify key starting points for opening up reflexive consideration. Transtemporal studies can highlight pressing issues in a reflexive manner, thereby reducing risks of erroneous causal and precipitate connections being drawn between certain interpretations of current situations and specific solutions. Collaborative processes establish the mutual communication and interaction, thereby enhancing mutual understanding and directionality. Collaborative and reflexive processes involve communication and interaction procedures, during which actors develop an understanding of each other's preferences through dialogue and deliberation, which may bridge different ways of knowing and doing. Tailored forest management coherently addresses overarching challenges, and local conflicts, situations, and aspirations, then close down customized solutions. Feedback and learning enables social learning that embraces wider social units.