title: Knowledge production and learning for sustainable landscapes: forewords by the researchers and stakeholders.
abstract: This special issue of AMBIO presents a new approach to sustainability science that goes beyond interdisciplinary research. Using coupled natural and human systems, or landscapes, as multiple case studies in Europe's East and West knowledge production and learning toward transdisciplinary research was applied in Sweden, countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. First, the research group Forest-Landscape-Society summarizes the research program (2005-2012) behind this special issue of AMBIO and its development to participate in transdisciplinary research. Second, stakeholders at multiple levels provide their views on the new approach presented and reported.
authors.affiliation: School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden. per.angelstam@slu.se
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Angelstam
authors.forename: Marine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elbakidze
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Axelsson
authors.forename: Niels Elers
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: Tatiana I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Tyupenko
authors.forename: Alexandr N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Mariev
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Myhrman
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006801:Humans; D058436:Knowledge Management; D007858:Learning