In 2018, a strategy for Sweden's first National Forest Program was launched. As part of its implementation, County Administrative Boards have initiated dialogue processes for drafting regional forest strategies. Stakeholder deliberation is ascribed the potential to promote trust and mutual understanding, lead to more robust decisions and smoother implementation. We examine the dialogue processes, focusing on the two regions of Västra Götaland and Gävleborg, by posing three questions: 1) How are the current regional dialogue processes within the National Forest Program designed, and why in this way? 2) To what extent do the dialogues hitherto live up to key conditions needed to reach communicative action as articulated by Habermas and best practices as identified in the academic literature on stakeholder participation in natural resource management and policy? 3) What implications could these findings have for the potential of the dialogue processes to contribute to reconciling the overriding goal conflicts as they play out in Swedish forestry? For the inquiry, we used semi-structured interviews, document analysis and a survey.

The study concludes that a clear effort is made to include a variety of actors in the process. However, for successful dialogues important preconditions need to be addressed; long-term funding for the dialogues needs to be secured, and the overall role of the NFP and of the regional dialogue processes should be clarified. The analysis also shows that fundamental goal conflicts in the Swedish forestry sector, primarily between timber production and conservation goals, should be handled more explicitly at the national level.

2018 年，瑞典启动了第一个国家森林计划的战略。作为其实施的一部分，县行政委员会启动了起草区域森林战略的对话进程。利益相关者的审议被认为有可能促进信任和相互理解，导致更稳健的决策和更顺畅的实施。我们通过提出三个问题来研究对话过程，重点是西约塔兰和耶夫勒堡这两个地区：1）国家森林计划中当前的区域对话过程是如何设计的，为什么会这样？2) 迄今为止，对话在多大程度上符合实现哈贝马斯所阐述的交流行动所需的关键条件以及利益相关者参与自然资源管理和政策的学术文献中确定的最佳实践？3) 这些发现对对话过程的潜力有什么影响，有助于调和瑞典林业中出现的首要目标冲突？对于调查，我们使用了半结构化访谈、文件分析和调查。

该研究得出的结论是，已做出明确努力以在该过程中包括各种参与者。然而，要成功进行对话，需要解决重要的先决条件；需要确保对话的长期资金，并澄清国家联络点和区域对话进程的总体作用。分析还表明，瑞典林业部门的基本目标冲突，主要是木材生产和保护目标之间的冲突，应该在国家层面更明确地处理。