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The 21st century is witness to novel trends in land-cover change and associated land-management regimes concerned with rural and forested areas. Globalization has transformed these managed landscapes, economically, biophysically, politically, and demographically, introducing new structures atop pre-existing dynamics. Myriad hybrid regimes of landscape change and management have arisen, entailing divergences from 20th century norms in terms of their scale, pace, nature, agents, and geography. Emergent dynamics have given rise to unprecedented dynamics of reforestation, deforestation, agro-industrialisation, and conservation compared to the 20th century.

Emergent dynamics of forest change are in turn accompanied by novel regimes and challenge for forest management, e.g., forest-restoration initiatives, land swaps for forest conservation, corporate self-regulation. Increasingly acute 21st-century pressures such as climate change, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss have further fostered new and arguably expanded roles for the State and commercial entities with respect to forest management, reflecting both the growing scales of emergent dynamics and the breadth of their implications.

Descriptions of emergent land-change transitions in forest landscapes have often characterized them as ends unto themselves, e.g., sustainable forest management, forest transitions. Less regard has been given to their underlying historical dynamics or their persistence in a continuum of ongoing forest change and management. In response, this special issue invites perspectives on emergent trends in forest change and management, with emphasis on historical (dis)continuity, future challenges for management and sustainability, and associated social, political, ecological, and economic dynamics.

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