Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options
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Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services : Opportunities, challenges, and policy options. / Winkel, Georg; Lovrić, Marko; Muys, Bart; Katila, Pia; Lundhede, Thomas; Pecurul, Mireia; Pettenella, Davide; Pipart, Nathalie; Plieninger, Tobias; Prokofieva, Irina; Parra, Constanza; Pülzl, Helga; Roitsch, Dennis; Roux, Jeanne Lazya; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark; Tyrväinen, Liisa; Torralba, Mario; Vacik, Harald; Weiss, Gerhard; Wunder, Sven.
In: Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 145, 102849, 2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services
T2 - Opportunities, challenges, and policy options
AU - Winkel, Georg
AU - Lovrić, Marko
AU - Muys, Bart
AU - Katila, Pia
AU - Lundhede, Thomas
AU - Pecurul, Mireia
AU - Pettenella, Davide
AU - Pipart, Nathalie
AU - Plieninger, Tobias
AU - Prokofieva, Irina
AU - Parra, Constanza
AU - Pülzl, Helga
AU - Roitsch, Dennis
AU - Roux, Jeanne Lazya
AU - Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark
AU - Tyrväinen, Liisa
AU - Torralba, Mario
AU - Vacik, Harald
AU - Weiss, Gerhard
AU - Wunder, Sven
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning (e.g. wood) and regulating (e.g. climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (e.g. recreation) services. In this paper, we assess the state and prospects of forest ecosystem services provision in Europe, introducing new data from the European collaborative research projects SINCERE, NOBEL and CLEARING HOUSE, and combining it with findings from the literature. We identify six challenges (1 an insufficient alignment of FES supply and demand, 2 lacking policy integration, 3 ambiguous and conflicting regulatory frameworks, 4 a lack of precise information on FES demand and provision, and innovations to align both, 5 an increasing pressure to adapt to climate change, and 6 a striking diversity constraining European level policy solutions) and three opportunities (1 increasingly heterogenous forest owner objectives potentially matching pluralistic societal demands, 2 diversifying forest enterprises levering innovations in regulating and cultural ecosystem services provision, and 3 the potential of forests to mitigate climate change). Subsequently, we introduce four distinct but complimentary policy pathways for European forest policy to better align forest ecosystem services provision and demand: 1 Better monitoring of FES supply and demand, 2 Enhanced policy integration, 3 Payments for ecosystem services, and 4 Bottom-up participation and learning among ecosystem services innovators. We conclude by emphasizing the momentum that the EU Green Deal unfolds for a future European forest policy to incentivise the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services.
AB - Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning (e.g. wood) and regulating (e.g. climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (e.g. recreation) services. In this paper, we assess the state and prospects of forest ecosystem services provision in Europe, introducing new data from the European collaborative research projects SINCERE, NOBEL and CLEARING HOUSE, and combining it with findings from the literature. We identify six challenges (1 an insufficient alignment of FES supply and demand, 2 lacking policy integration, 3 ambiguous and conflicting regulatory frameworks, 4 a lack of precise information on FES demand and provision, and innovations to align both, 5 an increasing pressure to adapt to climate change, and 6 a striking diversity constraining European level policy solutions) and three opportunities (1 increasingly heterogenous forest owner objectives potentially matching pluralistic societal demands, 2 diversifying forest enterprises levering innovations in regulating and cultural ecosystem services provision, and 3 the potential of forests to mitigate climate change). Subsequently, we introduce four distinct but complimentary policy pathways for European forest policy to better align forest ecosystem services provision and demand: 1 Better monitoring of FES supply and demand, 2 Enhanced policy integration, 3 Payments for ecosystem services, and 4 Bottom-up participation and learning among ecosystem services innovators. We conclude by emphasizing the momentum that the EU Green Deal unfolds for a future European forest policy to incentivise the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services.
KW - EU forest policy
KW - Forest ecosystem services
KW - PES
KW - Policy integration
U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102849
DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102849
M3 - Review
AN - SCOPUS:85139307405
VL - 145
JO - Forest Policy and Economics
JF - Forest Policy and Economics
SN - 1389-9341
M1 - 102849
ER -
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