Action – Policy – Knowledge
11 Case Studies in 9 different countries bring together practical forest & business management, policy making and science to innovate for forest ecosystem services.
The SINCERE Case Studies explore new means to enhance forest ecosystem services in ways that benefit forest owners and managers, as well as serving the broad needs of society. Working with key local stakeholders, the Case Studies trial different Innovation Mechanisms that offer incentives to provide relevant forest ecosystem services.
Be sure to check each Case Study page for publications based on their experiences and results!
Reverse auction pilots for forest ecosystem services in rural and peri-urban areas
Natuurinvest (OC-ANB) Belgium This Innovation Action will test an alternative way to stimulate the generation of much needed forest ecosystem services in a densely [...]
Creating a new legal framework for forests addressing the ecosystem services for Bizkaia county
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia (DFB) Spain The main objective of this Innovation Action is to create a new legal framework for forest and forestry [...]
Landscape and Recreation Value Trade
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) Finland A payment for ecosystem services system, the Landscape and Recreation Value Trade, is proposed, in which forest owners [...]
Club GREY HORSE – Providing multiple ecosystems services by forest renters
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Science (CEPF RAS) Russia This innovation action aims to develop mechanisms for multi-purpose [...]
Forests for water in Catalonia
Centre de Proprietat Forestal (CPF) supported by Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) Spain This innovation case is strengthening the link between [...]
Paying for watershed services to cities in Peru
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Peru This innovation case focuses on how part of the urban water tariff in the city of Cusco [...]
Reverse auctions pilot for biodiversity protection
Danish Forest Association in collaboration with University of Copenhagen Denmark In Denmark, adequate efforts for biodiversity protection needs to bring both public and privately [...]
Spiritual forests and forest kindergartens
Pan Bern AG Switzerland This innovation action explores how managing forests to be used as spiritual forests and forest kindergartens could benefit both the [...]
Understanding the health functions of peri-urban forests in protected areas and Payment for Ecosystem Services
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica (PINPM) Croatia This Innovation Action will provide a unique and innovative way of evaluating health as a component of forest [...]
ECOPAY Connect – Forest-habitat biodiversity payment scheme
Etifor Italy This initiative, in the Regional Park Oglio Sud, is increasing the sustainability of poplar plantations in an area under intensive use, by [...]
The Mushrooms of Borgotaro IGP
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (CCP) Italy The "Mushrooms of Borgotaro IGP" are produced in the woods of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The way the woods are [...]