Transformative stakeholder engagement: a strategy for the SUPERB demonstration areas

This document presents the overarching strategy for engaging communities, landowners and other stakeholders in the restoration work in the twelve SUPERB large-scale demonstration areas (demos). It sets the vision and objectives for stakeholder engagement in the demos and lays out the respective activities to be implemented during and after the project. In addition, the document provides an overview of the engagement formats and the challenges and enablers to stakeholder involvement captured in the twelve demo-specific, internal engagement strategies developed by the demos.

The strategy is grounded in the transformative stakeholder engagement approach developed within SUPERB for guiding the demos’ collaboration with stakeholders. Transformative stakeholder engagement moves beyond the traditional practice of consultations to co-creating forest restoration processes with an inclusive range of local and other actors. By incorporating diverse perspectives and knowledge in restoration decision-making this co-creative approach is geared at advancing effective, sustainable and socially just forest and forest landscape management in Europe.