A Forest of Conflict

City forests, as shown in the previous chapters, fulfil many social and cultural roles, apart from the economic benefits that they have offered over time. Chapter 5 ‘The Forest of Power’, however, already showed that is it impossible to meet all demands for forest goods and services with the often rather small city forest resources available. Moreover, people have different opinions about what city forests should look like and how they should be designed and managed. Given the large interests in city forests, for example because of their role in place making, and the many societal demands, it is obvious that conflicts of interests are common. This chapter looks at city forests as Forests of Conflict.