Our colleague Dr. Alice Ludvig has a new publication! The article addresses the increasing widespread of mountain biking as a recreational activity in the forest, which can lead to challenging trade-off situations, as some benefits from forests come at the cost of another forest benefit and vice versa.The study asks how such trade-off situations can be negotiated to find an outcome, such as a legal mountain bike trail, which is accepted by stakeholders. Findings show the importance of collective actors, a clear delineation of responsibilities and of compensation and funding measures as well as structured workshops and collective site inspections for addressing trade-offs and for arriving at acceptable outcomes in our cases.

Read more about the article here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1389-9341(21)00289-6