Abstract

Across the globe, deforestation and conflicts over forests are taking place on a frontier of competing claims, narratives and worldviews, expressed through territoriality, normative orders, and forms of violence against people and nature. Policymakers have yet to find solutions that effectively address this crisis over human-forest relations in ways that are also equitable for forest peoples. This special issue responds to this challenge with an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical and empirically grounded studies that explore human-forest relations at the legal frontier. The authors explore how law affects the ecological, cultural and moral foundations of human-forest relationships, and the need to go beyond dominant economic and rights-based legal framings, towards developing further legal dimensions of socio-ecological relations for forest governance. The contributions as a whole highlight the importance of co-constructing laws that are culturally situated in local meanings of forest and interact with global, state and other local normative orders in decolonial, transformative ways. This opens the possibility of a new legal frontier for people and forests of multidimensional more-than-human forms of interlegality.

摘要

在全球范围内，森林砍伐和森林冲突是在相互竞争的主张，叙事和世界观的边界上发生的，这些争端通过地域性，规范性秩序以及对人与自然的暴力形式表现出来。决策者们尚未找到解决方案，以对森林人也公平的方式有效解决人与森林关系的危机。为解决这一挑战，本期专刊以跨学科的理论和经验为基础的研究成果，在法律前沿探索人与森林的关系。作者探讨了法律如何影响人与森林关系的生态，文化和道德基础，以及是否需要超越占主导地位的经济和基于权利的法律框架，进一步发展用于森林治理的社会生态关系的法律层面。总体而言，这些贡献突出了共同构建法律的重要性，这些法律在文化上位于森林的当地含义中，并以殖民地，变革性的方式与全球，州和其他地方规范性秩序互动。这为人与森林之间多层面的，非人类形式的合法性开辟了新的法律疆界的可能性。