I was involved in Work Package 5 (Adaptive co-management and balancing of values in terrestrial habitats), where we used the case of Vilhelmina Upper Forest Common (VUFC) in northern Sweden to study participatory forest management/governance. In particular, I led the action-research component to analyse and encourage shareholders’ participation in the governance of VUFC. We studied shareholders’ engagement in the VUFC on one hand, while on the other, we analysed the board and forest manager’s planning and decision-making process. Furthermore, we attempted to test the applicability of tools such as participatory-GIS for planning and decision-making, and as a platform for communication between board and shareholders and among the shareholders regarding sustainable natural resource management and use within VUFC.