Forestry today, like many other sectors that traditionally rely on
material goods, faces significant global drivers of societal change
that are less often addressed than the environmental concerns
commonly in the spotlight of scientific, political, and news media.
There are three major interconnected issues that are challenging
forestry at its foundation: urbanization, tertiarization, and
globalization. These issues are at the core of this book. The
urbanization of society, a process in development from the first
steps of industrialization, is particularly significant today with
the predominance and quick growth rate of the world's urban
population. Ongoing urbanization is creating new perspectives on
forestry, inducing changes in its social representation, and
changing lifestyles and practices with a tendency toward
dematerialization. The process of urbanization is also creating a
disconnect and in some ways is leaving behind rurality, the sector
of society where forestry has traditionally developed and taken
place over centuries. The second issue covered in this book is the
tertiarization of the economy. In society today, the sector of
services largely dominates the economy and occupies the major part
of the world's active population. This ongoing process modifies
professional modalities and ways of life and opens new doors to
forests through the immaterial goods they provide. It also
profoundly changes the framework, rules, processes, means of
production, exchanges between economic factors, and the processes
of innovation. The third issue is undoubtedly globalization in its
economic, political, and social components. Whether it's through
bridging distances, crossing borders, accelerating changes,
standardizing practices, leveling hierarchical structures, or
pushing for interdependence, globalization impacts everyone,
everywhere in multiple ways. Forestry is no exception. Forestry in
the Midst of Global Changes focuses on these global drivers of
change from the perspective of their relationships with how society
functions. By analyzing them in depth through multidisciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and even transdisciplinary approaches, this book
is helping to design the forestry of tomorrow.
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