Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options

Winkel, Georg; Lovrić, Marko; Muys, Bart; Katila, Pia; Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark; Pecurul, Mireia; Pettenella, D.; Pipart, Nathalie; Plieninger, Tobías; Prokofieva, Irina; Parra, Constanza; Pülzl, Helga; Roitsch, Dennis; Roux, Jeanne-Lazya; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark; Tyrväinen, Liisa; Torralba, Mario; Vacik, Harald; Weiss, Gerhard; Wunder, Sven

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102849

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“…(Nilsson et al 2019). These forest owners are highly reliant on the provision of ecosystem services for their income (Winkel et al 2022). In northern Sweden, the indigenous Sami people have exclusive usufructuary rights to reindeer herding, while also having rights to hunting, fishing, and extraction of timber for the structures and houses necessary for reindeer herding (Allard 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts : Addressing climate change and local stakeholders’ expectations of forests

Hallberg-Sramek¹

2023

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae

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Forests are expected to provide multiple ecosystem services and mitigate climate change whilst also being adapted to the impacts of climate change. This thesis aims to analyse these competing expectations placed on forests in Sweden and how to tailor forest management locally to meet them by (i) applying machine learning to analyse forest conflicts in daily media from 2012 to 2022 and (ii) collaborating with local forest stakeholders to co-produce locally-tailored forest management pathways in two study areas in Sweden. The results showed that media coverage of forest conflicts has increased over time and that the conflicts concerned why and for whom forests should be managed. The co-production processes additionally highlighted expectations of how forests should be managed. Overall, the local stakeholders wanted to diversify forest management to enable more multifunctional and climate-smart forests, whilst they also stressed several conditions that may enable or disable its implementation in practice, depending on how they are handled. To adapt forest management to climate change impacts, the stakeholders emphasised the value of learning from past experiences and continuously improving management in line with an adaptive forest management approach. To limit climate change, they argued that it is necessary to consider climate change mitigation holistically and in conjunction with climate change adaptation and forests’ provision of ecosystem services. By collaborating with local stakeholders and combining their context-based local knowledge with forest science, this thesis developed a broader and pluralistic understanding of forest management while enabling collaborative learning. In summary, this thesis highlights competing expectations placed on forests in Sweden and the value of co-production processes to tailor forest management to local socio-ecological contexts in collaboration with local stakeholders.

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confidence: 99%

Tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts : Addressing climate change and local stakeholders’ expectations of forests

Hallberg-Sramek¹

2023

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae

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“…Both research and policymakers should contribute to finding sustainable solutions for maintaining economically and environmentally viable livelihoods in these precious environments (Noccentini et al, 2022). One of four policy pathways for future EU forest policy to support ecosystem services provision (Winkel et al, 2022), an EU-wide payments for ecosystem services (PES) system holds significant potential to advance the provision of forest ecosystem services (FES). However, some FES, such as watershed protection, are more locally rooted -and may thus also be better addressed through locally or nationally conceived incentive systems.…”

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Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda 2030

Kharrat¹,

Arano²,

Zeki-Bašken³

et al. 2022

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“…Forest ecosystems provide a wide range of environmental, economic and social services to human societies (Winkel et al 2022;Tadesse et al 2022). They contribute to limiting and dealing with climate change (Andrea 2022), they provide the production of wood and forest products (Sen Wang 2013), and they promote recreation and improvements in human welfare and quality of life (Badea and Apostol 2020).…”

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Effects of forest roads and an assessment of their disturbance of the natural enviroment based on GIS spatial multi-criteria analysis: case study of the University Forest of Taxiarchis, Chalkidiki, Greece

Kolkos

Stergiadou

Kantartzis

et al. 2023

Euro-Mediterr J Environ Integr

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The forest road network contributes to all aspects of the management and protection of natural ecosystems, such as fire protection and access to settlements, infrastructure and forest recreation. This has led to a constant demand for new roads and increased road density in forest areas. However, due to the environmental impact of such roads, a tool that takes into account all the parameters that they affect and evaluates the spatial distribution of forest-road-induced disturbance is needed. The present research highlights a multi-criteria evaluation (MCE), based on a spatial approach that utilizes geographical information systems (GIS), for estimating both the impact of the forest road network and the absorptiveness of the natural environment for that impact. The University Forest of Taxiarchis, Greece, was selected as it combines both timber production and recreation characteristics. Primary data were collected through the management plan for the area and the road network was categorized. A variety of factors regarding forestry, wood extraction methods and production, and social and topographical criteria were examined and scored based on their weighting factors. The results regarding the impact and the absorptiveness were analyzed in order to assess the spatial disturbance. The analysis showed that the spatial environmental impact of the forest roads is crucial and that MCE methods should be applied in environmental impact assessment (EIA) in order to support decision-making systems (DMS) for new road construction and to enhance environmental integration.

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Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options

Cited by 65 publications

References 87 publications

Tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts : Addressing climate change and local stakeholders’ expectations of forests

Tailoring forest management to local socio-ecological contexts : Addressing climate change and local stakeholders’ expectations of forests

Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda 2030

Effects of forest roads and an assessment of their disturbance of the natural enviroment based on GIS spatial multi-criteria analysis: case study of the University Forest of Taxiarchis, Chalkidiki, Greece

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