A major paper presents policy-relevant findings to support multiple forest ecosystem services in Europe. The paper provides ideas on how future European forest governance could align FES demand and supply in the light of three challenges: climate change adaptation; biodiversity crisis; and the need to move towards a sustainable bioeconomy.
This paper assessed the state and prospects of forest ecosystem services provision in Europe, introducing new data from three European collaborative research projects including SINCERE.
Open access link: Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options
A key factor in the resilience of water and forest ecosystems is the management decisions taken by the individuals responsible for them, from public officials to private owners.
Open access link: How do structural and agent-based factors influence the effectiveness of incentive policies?
Biodiversity Offsets and Payments for Environmental Services are sometimes used interchangeably to characterize innovative economic tools to conserve or restore biodiversity, ecosystems, or their services. A confusion between them can have negative implications for biodiversity conservation.
Open access link: Biodiversity offsets and payments for environmental services: Clarifying the family ties
Although nature-based tourism is increasingly recognized, economic incentives for private landowners supporting the production of amenity values are largely lacking. This study focused on possibilities to enhance the scenic and recreational values of private forests for nature-based tourism in Finland.
Open access link: Private landowners' preferences for trading forest landscape and recreational values: A choice experiment application in Kuusamo, Finland
To promote the growth of nature based tourism in privately owned forest areas, new policy instruments, e.g. Payments for Ecosystem Services, are needed. They could engage private forest owners and nature-based tourism companies to cooperate and support the growth of the sector.
Open access link: Importance of forest landscape quality for companies operating in nature tourism areas
The trade in landscape and recreational values outlined in this article is one way of preserving our shared environment for tourists, local operators and nature itself.
Open access link (Finnish): Matkakohteen luontoympäristön vetovoimaisuuden ylläpitäminen maisema- ja virkistysarvokaupan avulla
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The primary goal of the research was to collect information on the level of activation of energy capacities for the health, and the secondary goal was to determine the differences in physical activity on the two most visited hiking trails.
Open access link: The health function of peri-urban forests in protected areas – Assessment of hiking trails energy capacity in Nature Park Medvednica
The goal of the draft bill concept is to modernise the forest law of the Russian Federation to bring it in line with changes in the state of forests, their increasing role in climate regulation and other ecosystem services, as well as the further development of market relations in the Russian economy.
Open access link: Draft bill concept of the federal law “Forest Code of the Russian Federation”
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Land restoration will happen under climate change and navigating uncertainty and planning for adaptation requires new knowledge systems.
Open access link (Spanish): Para adaptar la restauración de la tierra a un clima cambiante
Open access link (French): Adapter la restauration des terres à un climat en évolution
