Guiding the guides: Doing ‘Constructive Innovation Assessment’ as part of innovating forest ecosystem service governance

•Constructive Innovation Assessment can be flexibly applied to various (forest) ecosystem services contexts.•Following an innovation process means intensively engaging with stakeholders’ future visions.•Scenarios of future (forest) ecosystem service governance arrangements can serve as convergent bo...

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Governance
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stakeholders
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Ökologie und Umwelt
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