Dear colleagues, Please be invited to submit a paper or poster for the session: 26 International to local forest governance: taking stock of political theories, methodologies and research findings Organizers: Lukas Giessen (University of Goettingen, Germany), Bas Arts (Wageningen University, Netherlands), Florian Kraxner (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria) & Constance McDermott (University of Oxford, UK) This session aims at taking stock of innovative theoretical, methodological and empirical achievements in forest governance research, from the local to the global level. This session will be held at the XXIV IUFRO World Congress -“Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research” to be held from 5-11 October 2014 in Salt Lake City, USA. Please send your abstracts for contributing a paper or poster to this session by referring to the guidelines available under http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/ and use only the online tool for submitting. Deadline is Oct, 15. Best regards, The organizers