摘要：Adaptation of forest management practices in the context of rapid climatic and socioeconomic changes is a globalconcern. Stakeholders in the forest-based sector as well as policy makers need improved methods and tools to assess potentialimpacts of changes in management on sustainability indicators. In this special feature, we introduce a methodological frameworkfor classification of forest management approaches in European forestry and explore how changes in forest management mightaffect the delivery of various ecosystem goods and services and appropriate sustainability indicators over time and space fromlocal to continental scales. The complementary papers in this special feature explore different aspects of sustainability and risksin representative European forest systems as affected by forest management. We show how a common framework plus supportinggrowth models and indicators can be used to examine the effects of management on ecosystem services and so provide a firststep toward the development of a more integrated approach for strategic forest planning and sustainable use of forest ecosystems
