Guidelines for Respectful and Constructive Engagement in Forestry Management (Scotland)
Good stakeholder engagement helps forestry projects work better for everyone. It can lead to better ideas, highlight issues early, and support stronger, long-term relationships.
Forestry projects often involve a wide range of people with different views and interests. Those planning and managing work need to listen to these perspectives and find a balanced way forward. Good engagement helps make this possible.
Recognising this there are a range of resources (guidance and in-person training) to support the forestry sector. Confor has now developed and published a new set of ‘Guidelines for respectful and constructive engagement in forestry management – Scotland’ to complement existing guidance and to help set out clear expectations on all parties and how to handle situations when things go wrong.
