Our colleague Gerhard Weiss has a new publication: Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests, the paper aims to (1) to clarify the meaning of spiritual values of forests, and (2) to
trace the evolution of forest spirituality over time in different contexts in an exploratory way. It investigates spiritual values of forests from European and Asian perspectives, assessing 13 countries and based on expert knowledge from 18 interdisciplinary experts.

Spiritual values of forests refer to the subjective significance an individual or community attaches to the intangible or metaphysical
experience of connecting their beliefs, emotions, identity, and cultural heritage with forests and trees; and there are more than one category of spiritual value of the forest! To read more about the topic, please click here.