Acknowledgement.- Chapter 1. Introduction; E. Carina H. Keskitalo.- Chapter 2: Is there a new European forest owner? The institutional context E.; Carina H. Keskitalo, Gun Lidestav, Heimo Karppinen, Ivana Zivojinovic.- Chapter 3: Individual forest owners in context; Kerstin Westin, Louise Eriksson, Gun Lidestav, Heimo Karppinen, Katarina Haugen, Annika Nordlund.- Chapter 4 Interactions between forest owners and their forests; Gun Lidestav, Camilla Thellbro, Per Sandström, Torgny Lind, Einar Holm, Olof Olsson, Kerstin Westin, Heimo Karppinen, Andrej Ficko.- Chapter 5. Is there an end to the concentration of businesses and people?; Urban Lindgren, Jonathan Borggren, Svante Karlsson, Rikard H Eriksson, Bram Timmermans.- Chapter 6: Rural-urban policies: changing conceptions of the human-environment relationship; E. Carina H. Keskitalo; Svante Karlsson; Urban Lindgren; Örjan Pettersson, Linda Lundmark, Bill Slee, Mariann Villa, Diana Feliciano.- Chapter 7 Multi-level planning and conflicting interests in the forest landscape; Olof Stjernström, Rein Ahas, Sabina Bergstén, Jeannette Eggers, Hando Hain, Svante Karlsson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Tomas Lämås, Örjan Pettersson, Per Sandström, Karin Öhman.- Chapter 8. Forests in common and their contribution to local development; Gun Lidestav, Nevenka Bogataj, Paola Gatto, Anna Lawrence, Olof Stjernström, Jenny Wong.- Chapter 9. Conclusions New forest owners under globalised, rural-urban relations; E. Carina H. Keskitalo.