ShareFOREST project aims to design, develop and assess a participatory methodology to support co-decision in planning and management of forests, reinforcing the principles behind territorial governance and, as ultimate mission, preventing and mitigating the impacts of future wildfires.

The research has three main stages:
Stage 1: identification and mapping of public and stakeholders acting and/or benefiting from the Matas do Litoral, analysing collaboration patterns and networks; and assessment of social representations and perceptions concerning forests and wildfires, after 2017;
Stage 2: definition of a participatory methodology to support co-decision in planning and management of forests and its operationalization in case studies located in the Matas do Litoral territory;
Fase 3: evaluation of the participatory process impacts in the case studies, reflecting on process design, immediate results and outputs and potential impacts on forest management.