TY - JOUR

T1 - PESFOR-W

T2 - improving the design and environmental effectiveness of woodlands for water payments for ecosystem services

AU - Valatin, Gregory

AU - Abildtrup, Jens

AU - Accastello, Cristian

AU - Said Al-Tawaha, Abdel Rahman Mohammad

AU - Andreucci, Maria-Beatrice

AU - Atanasova, Silvia

AU - Avdibegović, Mersudin

AU - Baksic, Nikolina

AU - Banasik, Kazimierz

AU - Barquin, Jose

AU - Barstad, Johan

AU - Bastakova, Viera

AU - Becirovic, Dzenan

AU - Begueria, Santiago

AU - Bethers, Uldis

AU - Bihunova, Maria

AU - Blagojevic, Bosko

AU - Bösch, Matthias

AU - Bournaris, Thomas

AU - Cao, Yiying

AU - Carvalho-Santos, Claudia

AU - Chikalanov, Alexander

AU - A. Cunha e Sá, Maria

AU - Czyżyk, Krzysztof

AU - Daly, Hamed

AU - Davies, Helen

AU - Del Campo, Antonio

AU - de Groot, Rudolf

AU - De Vreese, Rik

AU - Dostál, Tomáš

AU - El Mokaddem, Abdelmohssin

AU - Finér, Leena

AU - Evans, Rhys

AU - Fiquepron, Julien

AU - Frac, Magdalena

AU - Futter, Martyn

AU - Garcia, Serge

AU - Gatto, Paola

AU - Geneletti, Davide

AU - Gezik, Veronika

AU - Giupponi, Carlo

AU - González-Sanchís, María

AU - Gordillo, Fernando

AU - Gorriz, Elena

AU - Grigorova, Yulia

AU - Heinsoo, Katrin

AU - Hochbichler, Eduard

AU - Högbom, Lars

AU - Image, Mike

AU - Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl

AU - Japelj, Anže

AU - Jelic, Sreten

AU - Junk, Jürgen

AU - Juhasz, Csaba

AU - Kagalou, Ifigenia

AU - Kelly-Quinn, Mary

AU - Klamerus-Iwan, Anna

AU - Kluvankova, Tatiana

AU - Koeck, Roland

AU - Konovska, Iskra

AU - Krajter Ostoic, Silvija

AU - Krc, Janez

AU - Lavnyy, Vasyl

AU - Leonardi, Alessandro

AU - Libiete, Zane

AU - Little, Declan

AU - Lo Porto, Antonio

AU - Loukas, Athanasios

AU - Lyubenova, Mariyana Ivanova 

AU - Maric, Bruno

AU - Martínez-López, Javier

AU - Martinez, Inazio

AU - Maxim, Alexandru

AU - Metslaid, Marek

AU - Melvin, Alison

AU - Costică, Mihai

AU - Mincev, Ivan

AU - Morkvenas, Zymantas

AU - Nevenic, Radovan

AU - Nisbet, Tom

AU - O'hUallachain, Daire

AU - Olschewski, Roland

AU - Östberg, Johan

AU - Oszust, Karolina

AU - Ovando, Paola

AU - Paletto, Alessandro

AU - Parpan, Taras

AU - Pettenella, Davide

AU - Pezdevšek Malovrh, Špela

AU - Planinšek, Špela

AU - Podlipná, Radka

AU - Posavec, Stjepan

AU - Potočki, Kristina

AU - Prokofieva, Irina

AU - Quinteiro, Paula

AU - Radocz, Laszlo

AU - Ristic, Ratko

AU - Robert, Nicolas

AU - Rugani, Benedetto

AU - Sabanovic, Jelena

AU - Sarvasova, Zuzana

AU - Savoska, Snezana

AU - Schleppi, Patrick

AU - Schueler, Gebhard

AU - Shannon, Margaret

AU - Silgram, Martyn

AU - Srdjevic, Bojan

AU - Stefan, Gavril

AU - Stijovic, Aleksandar

AU - Strange, Niels

AU - Tattari, Sirkka

AU - Teofilovski, Aco

AU - Termansen, Mette

AU - Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark

AU - Toth, Attila

AU - Trebs, Ivonne

AU - Tmušić, Novica

AU - Vasiliades, Lampros

AU - Vedel, Suzanne Elizabeth

AU - Ventrubová, Kateřina

AU - Vuletic, Dijana

AU - Winkel, Georg

AU - Yao, Richard

AU - Young, Sarah

AU - Yousefpour, Rasoul

AU - Zahvoyska, Lyudmyla

AU - Zhang, Daowei

AU - Zhou, Jianhua

AU - Žižková, Eva

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure restoration of Europe’s water bodies to “good ecological status” by 2027. Many Member States will struggle to meet this target, with around half of EU river catchments currently reporting below standard water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture represents a major pressure, affecting over 90% of river basins. Accumulating evidence shows that recent improvements to agricultural practices are benefiting water quality but in many cases will be insufficient to achieve WFD objectives. There is growing support for land use change to help bridge the gap, with a particular focus on targeted tree planting to intercept and reduce the delivery of diffuse pollutants to water. This form of integrated catchment management offers multiple benefits to society but a significant cost to landowners and managers.New economic instruments, in combination with spatial targeting, need to be developed to ensure cost effective solutions – including tree planting for water benefits - are realised. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are flexible, incentive-based mechanisms that could play an important role in promoting land use change to deliver water quality targets. The PESFOR-W COST Action will consolidate learning from existing woodlands for water PES schemes in Europe and help standardize approaches to evaluating the environmental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of woodland measures. It will also create a European network through which PES schemes can be facilitated, extended and improved, for example by incorporating other ecosystem services linking with aims of the wider forests-carbon policy nexus.

AB - The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure restoration of Europe’s water bodies to “good ecological status” by 2027. Many Member States will struggle to meet this target, with around half of EU river catchments currently reporting below standard water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture represents a major pressure, affecting over 90% of river basins. Accumulating evidence shows that recent improvements to agricultural practices are benefiting water quality but in many cases will be insufficient to achieve WFD objectives. There is growing support for land use change to help bridge the gap, with a particular focus on targeted tree planting to intercept and reduce the delivery of diffuse pollutants to water. This form of integrated catchment management offers multiple benefits to society but a significant cost to landowners and managers.New economic instruments, in combination with spatial targeting, need to be developed to ensure cost effective solutions – including tree planting for water benefits - are realised. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are flexible, incentive-based mechanisms that could play an important role in promoting land use change to deliver water quality targets. The PESFOR-W COST Action will consolidate learning from existing woodlands for water PES schemes in Europe and help standardize approaches to evaluating the environmental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of woodland measures. It will also create a European network through which PES schemes can be facilitated, extended and improved, for example by incorporating other ecosystem services linking with aims of the wider forests-carbon policy nexus.

U2 - 10.3897/rio.3.e13828

DO - 10.3897/rio.3.e13828

M3 - Journal article

VL - 3

JO - Research Ideas and Outcomes

JF - Research Ideas and Outcomes

SN - 2367-7163

M1 - e13828

ER -