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Leseprobe ----- Zusammenfassung Der Wald ist fur alle da – auf Seiten der Nutzer_innen, aber auch auf Seiten der Waldberufe. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die mannerdominierte Waldbranche und geht von einer Interdependenz zwischen Gesellschaft, Geschlecht und Natur aus. Denn die Gesellschaft-Natur-Beziehungen und deren Ausgestaltung sind mit Gender sowie mit Fragen der Chancengleichheit verknupft. Ziel ist es, sich durch eine integrative Perspektive der beiden Forschungsfelder Gender Studies und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung sozialtheoretisch Problemstellungen von Nachhaltigkeit und Chancengleichheit zu nahern. Die theoretische Basis bilden dabei der Ansatz „sozial-okologische Regime“ und die „Care“-Perspektive. Es wird argumentiert, dass nachhaltige Waldgestaltung heist, Chancengleichheit im Zusammenhang mit der Waldnutzung auf allen Seiten zu gewahrleisten. Zum Schluss wird die Frage gestellt: Ist nachhaltige Waldarbeit Care-Arbeit und umgekehrt? Schlagworter: Chancengleichheit; Partizipation; Care; Nachhaltigkeit; Sozial-okologische Theorie. ----- Diversity in the Forest. Equality Considered a Criterion for Sustainable Forest Management Abstract Woods are for everyone – for all users as well as for forest workers. This article focusses on the male dominated forestry sector in regard to the interdependency between society, gender and nature, because the human-nature relationship and its arrangement in society are linked to gender as well as to questions of equality. Thus the aim is to approach problems of sustainability and equality through an integrative perspective of gender studies and sustainability research. Two approaches serve as a theoretical basis: “socio-ecological regimes” and the so called “care”-perspective. The argument is that equality in connection with forest use on all sides can contribute to a sustainable forest management. At the end the question is brought up whether sustainable forest work is care work and vice versa. Keywords: Equality; Participation; Care; Sustainability; Social-ecological Theory. ----- Bibliographie: Kolar, Regula/Baerlocher, Bianca: Vielfalt im Wald. Chancengleichheit als Kriterium fur eine nachhaltige Waldgestaltung, FZG, 2-2016, S. 19-39. https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v22i2.27055

“Back to the future” – role and meaning of the Swiss Forestry Society Associations can be described as public goods and “schools of democracy”. They enable their members to participate in the political sphere and accomplish public tasks. Beyond this, we can view associations as a means for holding society together; they foster common values and norms as well as reduce societal insecurity. The Swiss Forestry Society, founded in 1843, has taken a supporting role in the landscape of associations in the 19th and early 20th century. However, since the 1990s, this association has faced declining membership, which raises questions about its role in today's political landscape, its meaning for its members and how it can adapt to societal change. In the context of the Swiss Forestry Society's 175th birthday, we addressed these questions by analysing historical documents and conducting interviews with members and experts. Responses show that the Swiss Forest Society plays an important role for current members' career as well as at the personal level in terms of solidarity in advocating for the forest. In contrast, former members say that the association is a club of ETH forest engineers which is neither well known publicly nor does enough for the forest itself. In terms of the future, the Swiss Forest Society faces the challenge to become interconnected across sectors. To address this, it will be key for the association to attract young, active members from different forest-related backgrounds who will engage in the association over the long-term and thus enable it to keep up with today's and tomorrow's (ever more digital) world.

Due to their view of the constitution of the ‘social’, social sciences tend to exclude the biophysical environment from their subject matter. In order to prevent naturalistic explanations, only social explanantia have been taken up in explanatory approaches to social facts. However, increasing environmental problems and the discourse on sustainable development cast severe doubts regarding the exclusion of the biophysical environment. Accordingly, several approaches strive to integrate biophysical aspects into existing social theory. Most of these theoretical approaches are, however, limited to either focusing upon the level of individual action or on the macro level. The institutional level largely remains underexposed. In respect of this research desideratum the paper presents the concept of “ecological regimes”, which provides an innovative contribution to integrate the biophysical environment into existing social theory on level of aggregated action.