Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe
Hernández-Morcillo, Mónica (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forest Resource Economics)
Torralba, Mario (University of Göttingen. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development)
Baiges, Teresa (Centre de Propietat Forestal)
Bernasconi, Andreas (Pan Bern AG)
Bottaro, Giorgia (University of Padova. Land Environment Agriculture and Forestry Department)
Brogaard, Sara (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies Lund University)
Bussola, Francesca (Autonomous Province of Trento. Forest Service)
Díaz-Varela, Emilio Rafael (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Geneletti, Davide (University of Trento. Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering)
Grossmann, Carol M. (Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Kister, Jutta (University of Innsbruck. Department of Geography)
Klingler, Michael (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
Loft, Lasse (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research)
Lovric, Marko (European Forest Institute Yliopistokatu)
Mann, Carsten (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development)
Pipart, Nathalie (KU Leuven)
Roces-Díaz, José V. (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Sorge, Stefan (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forest Resource Economics)
Tiebel, Malin (University of Göttingen. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development)
Tyrväinen, Liisa (Natural Resources Institute Finland)
Varela, Elsa (Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestals de Catalunya)
Winkel, Georg (Forest and Wageningen University. Nature Conservation Policy Group)
Plieninger, Tobias (University of Göttingen. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development)

Data:	2022
Resum:	Forests are key components of European multifunctional landscapes and supply numerous forest ecosystem services (FES) fundamental to human well-being. The sustainable provision of FES has the potential to provide responses to major societal challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or rural development. To identify suitable strategies for the future sustenance of FES, we performed a solution scanning exercise with a group of transdisciplinary forest and FES experts from different European regions. We identified and prioritized fifteen major challenges hindering the balanced provision of multiple FES and identified a series of potential solutions to tackle each of them. The most prominent challenges referred to the increased frequency and impacts of extreme weather events and the normative mindset regarding forest management. The respective solutions pointed to the promotion of forest resilience via climate-smart forestry and mainstreaming FES-oriented management through a threefold strategy focusing on education, awareness raising, and networking. In a subsequent survey, most solutions were assessed as highly effective, transferable, monitorable, and with potential for being economically efficient. The implementation of the solutions could have synergistic effects when applying the notion of leverage points. Seven emerging pathways towards the sustainable supply of FES have been identified. These pathways build on each other and are organized based on their potential for transformation: (1) shifting forest management paradigms towards pluralistic ecosystem valuation; (2) using integrated landscape approaches; (3) increasing forest resilience; (4) coordinating actions between forest-related actors; (5) increasing participation in forest planning and management; (6) continuous, open, and transparent knowledge integration; and (7) using incentive-based instruments to support regulating and cultural FES. These pathways can contribute to the implementation of the new EU Forestry Strategy to support the balanced supply of multiple FES.
Ajuts:	European Commission 776609 European Commission 763899
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	European forests ; Ecosystem services ; Sustainability ; Solution scanning ; Leverage points ; EU Forestry Strategy
Publicat a:	Sustainability science, March 2022, p. 1-17, ISSN 1862-4057

DOI: 10.1007/s11625-022-01111-4
PMID: 35340343

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