Ryan C. L. Bullock is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research addresses environmental governance and conflict in northern and rural settings, and he has served on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Kevin S. Hanna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research centres on integrated approaches to natural resource management, forest sector policy in Canada, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and regional land use planning.

"... provide[s] an insightful window into the challenges and opportunities associated with this alternative form of forest governance. The authors are particularly successful at showing how the influence of history, culture, and larger governance structures can play a large role in supporting or hindering community forestry efforts. Recommended." J.L. Rhodes, Antioch University, New England, Choice Magazine

• Acknowledgements; 1. Defining concepts and spaces for the re-emergence of community forestry; 2. Putting community forestry into place: implementation and conflict; 3. Keeping New England's forests common; 4. Experiments and false starts: Ontario's community forestry experience; 5. A 'watershed' case for community forestry in British Columbia's interior: the Creston Valley Forest Corporation; 6. Contested forests and transition in two Gulf Island communities; 7. The southwestern United States: community forestry as governance; 8. Community access and the culture of stewardship in Finland and Sweden; 9. Community forestry: a way forward; Index.

Ryan C. L. Bullock is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research addresses environmental governance and conflict in northern and rural settings, and he has served on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Kevin S. Hanna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research centres on integrated approaches to natural resource management, forest sector policy in Canada, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and regional land use planning.

"... provide[s] an insightful window into the challenges and opportunities associated with this alternative form of forest governance. The authors are particularly successful at showing how the influence of history, culture, and larger governance structures can play a large role in supporting or hindering community forestry efforts. Recommended." J.L. Rhodes, Antioch University, New England, Choice Magazine

• Acknowledgements; 1. Defining concepts and spaces for the re-emergence of community forestry; 2. Putting community forestry into place: implementation and conflict; 3. Keeping New England's forests common; 4. Experiments and false starts: Ontario's community forestry experience; 5. A 'watershed' case for community forestry in British Columbia's interior: the Creston Valley Forest Corporation; 6. Contested forests and transition in two Gulf Island communities; 7. The southwestern United States: community forestry as governance; 8. Community access and the culture of stewardship in Finland and Sweden; 9. Community forestry: a way forward; Index.

Ryan C. L. Bullock is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research addresses environmental governance and conflict in northern and rural settings, and he has served on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Kevin S. Hanna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research centres on integrated approaches to natural resource management, forest sector policy in Canada, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and regional land use planning.

"... provide[s] an insightful window into the challenges and opportunities associated with this alternative form of forest governance. The authors are particularly successful at showing how the influence of history, culture, and larger governance structures can play a large role in supporting or hindering community forestry efforts. Recommended." J.L. Rhodes, Antioch University, New England, Choice Magazine

• Acknowledgements; 1. Defining concepts and spaces for the re-emergence of community forestry; 2. Putting community forestry into place: implementation and conflict; 3. Keeping New England's forests common; 4. Experiments and false starts: Ontario's community forestry experience; 5. A 'watershed' case for community forestry in British Columbia's interior: the Creston Valley Forest Corporation; 6. Contested forests and transition in two Gulf Island communities; 7. The southwestern United States: community forestry as governance; 8. Community access and the culture of stewardship in Finland and Sweden; 9. Community forestry: a way forward; Index.