Change in forest governance in developing countries – in search of sustainable governance arrangements

Acknowledgements: The editors wish to thank the organizers and the participants to the international conference on “Change in Governance as a Collective Learning Process”, Nancy 21–24 June 2009, from which these articles were selected. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the financial support for the conference and the special issue of the Sixth Framework Program in Research and Development of the European Commission under Grant RTD CIT3_513420 REFGOV and the Belgian Science Policy Division of the Ministry of Science under Grant IUAPVI/06.