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Further steps to success for new offers of cultural ecosystem services: fourth MAG meeting in Switzerland

Further steps to success for new offers of cultural ecosystem services: fourth MAG meeting in Switzerland

The fourth and the last Multi-Actor-Group meeting (MAG) of the Swiss case study on funeral forests took place on 22 April 2021. As for the previous MAG meetings, stakeholders from practice, research, NGOs as well as from regional and national government were present. In total 17 participants attended the meeting. The main objectives were to reflect on the key results from the SINCERE project, get to know the canvas for sustainable business models and draw conclusions for disseminating the results in Switzerland. The workshop was an online meeting due to the current situation but was nevertheless very interactive with [...]

Inês Martins 2021-07-27T12:28:23+01:00 May 6th, 2021|Tags: cultural ecosystem services, FES, forest policy, Funeral forest, Switz_blog, Switz_news, Switzerland|0 Comments

Funeral Forests: Bridges between two worlds

Bernasconi, A. 2019. Book of Abstracts of the 21th conference of EFUF, p.54 Spiritual forest spaces have a rising importance in society. One example of this trend is the funeral forest. In Switzerland only 10% of the deceased are still buried in a coffin, it is common to spread or bury the departed’s ashes (Donner 2018). Between 2009 and 2013 in Germany the number of tree burials doubled up to 45’000 per year (Bauer und Schraml 2018). Funeral forests are sacred places, grounded on two Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) of outstanding importance: (a) spiritual and religious meaning and (b) a space of long duration, linking ancestors with [...]

sinceremanage 2019-08-01T18:21:40+01:00 May 31st, 2019|Tags: Funeral forest, Pan Bern AG, Research, Spiritual services, Switz_research, The European Forest Institute|0 Comments