“Academics have the important role to provide policy makers and business managers with concrete instruments, models and guidelines”
Paola Gatto
Associate Professor
The University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy
First Multi-Actor Group meeting in Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia
Agents from different fields involved with payment for ecosystem services in Bizkaia met within the framework of the SINCERE project. The first MAG meeting of the Bizkaia was organised in collaboration with the Union of Foresters of Southern Europe [...]
“For politicians forest is still mainly wood”
Yury Gagarin
Leading researcher
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Science (CEPF RAS), Russia
Building the foundation for innovation in Flanders, Belgium
Natuurinvest
Innovation can only work when it is conceived to respond to real needs in a specific context, and is supported by those for whom it is developed. In collaboration with the University of Leuven and the Flemish Agency for Nature and Forest, Natuurinvest will test the mechanism of a reverse auction [...]
Forests help us face climate change in myriad ways
Bruno Locatelli
Scientist with CIRAD, University of Montpellier, and CIFOR
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia
“The value of forest ecosystem services has been noticed and it is growing”
Juhani Pyykkönen
Senior adviser bioeconomy
The Finnish Forest Centre (SMK), Finland
More people and broad debate at the second MAG meeting in Croatia
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica
Lively discussion took place at Institute for Development and International Relations where we held our second MAG meeting.This time we've invited more stakeholders and we had also representatives from the city [...]
“It is fundamental for everyone to understand what forests provide every day”
Giulia Amato
Project officer
Etifor, Italy
“It’s not only about fighting climate change”
Carlos Uriagereka Larrazabal
Chief of the Forest Service of Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia DFB, Provincial County of Bizkaia, Spain
Rialb 2021: forests and water, source of life
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Centre de Proprietat Forestal
There was great alignment of different stakeholders around the necessity to implement an innovation mechanism to value forest management and its direct relation with the amount and quality of water. [...]
“The survival of mankind depends on nature and a healthy environment, with forests having a big role in the process”
Martina Jurjević Varga
Chief ranger
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica, Croatia
Solutions for co-operation in forestry and nature tourism
Juhani Pyykkönen
Senior adviser bioeconomy
The Finnish Forest Centre (SMK), Finland
The idea of landscape as a service is not new anymore, but practical solutions are still lacking. The need is clear. Kuusamo-Ruka tourism area [...]
Scientific approach to second MAG meeting in Russia
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Science
For our second MAG meeting, that took place on 29th of March, 2019 in CEPF RAS, Moscow, we chose to change the format drastically, compared to the first one. [...]
“SINCERE will provide a unique opportunity to collaborate with both academic and practice partners all over Europe”
Thomas Lundhede
Associate Professor in Environmental Economics
The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
A peppy and energetic kick-off meeting in Copenhagen
Christian Jürgensen
Dansk Skovforening
Danish Forest Association (DFA), Denmark
Shared objectives among diverse stakeholders sparked fruitful discussions and created rewarding results [...]
Finding Solutions in Collaboration – Selecting Areas And Increasing Awareness
The Finnish Forest Centre
Realizing the model of paying for landscape and ecosystem services has three critical issues, namely selecting the forest areas to be compensated, organising the fund collection and payments, and increasing awareness of the activities. [...]
“We need to increase the interconnection between society’s demands and forest ecosystem services provision”
Mario Torralba
Postdoctoral researcher
The University of Kassel, Germany
Stakeholders have their say in valorising health benefits in Nature Park Medvednica
Martina Belović Kelemen
PI NP Medvednica
30% of Croatian territory is Natura 2000 site. There are 12 nature parks and 8 national parks. One of them is Nature Park Medvednica (NPM), protected as IUCN category V. [...]
“Reconnecting people with their nearby forests can help encourage more active and healthy lifestyles, as well as enhance support for forest conservation”
Kate Reilly
EU Programme Officer Nature-Based Solutions
IUCN European Regional Office