Decision-making Support for Forest Ecosystem Services in Europe - Value Assessment, Synergy Effects and Trade-offs (POLYFORES)
Abstract
The pressure on the forest as a resource is high, especially as the forests provide a diversity of products, one being ecosystem services (ES). Different forest management options produce different combinations of ES, and hence decisions about the adoption of particular forest management options need to consider both the trade-offs and synergies between ES, as well as the societal demands for different ES. The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to develop knowledge that will help balance the evolving societal demands for different ES while safeguarding forests’ capacity to deliver them within the context of e.g., climate change or sustainability. The objective is to develop assessment, decision support and management tools that will facilitate joint delivery of ES. Countries in Europe have developed different forest management paradigms to prioritise and to adjust between conflicting objectives. These paradigm models and their capacities to promote synergies and address legitimate trade-offs between the deliveries of different ES are explored. Synergies and conflicts between different ES at national and international scales are identified together with local and international stakeholders. The delivery of mutually supporting and conflicting ES is studied at the landscape level. The specific objectives of this project is to a) develop an inclusive, comprehensive and systematic approach to assess and value ES, b) promote policy learning by analysing how different European forest paradigm models respond to increasing demands for various ES, c) provide decision making support tools to help balance the synergies and trade-offs between different forest ES at the policy and management level, and d) assess with an assemblage of simulation models emerging conflicts and synergies between ES in dependence of management regime, environmental and climatic changes at different spatial and temporal scales.
keywords forest ecosystem services evaluation policies trade offs
Publikationen
Project staff
Helga Pülzl
Mag. Dr. Helga Pülzl
helga.puelzl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73221
Project Leader
01.12.2016 - 31.08.2020
Jerbelle Elomina
Jerbelle Elomina MSc.
jerbelle.elomina@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73218
Project Staff
01.12.2016 - 31.08.2020
Christoph Rosinger
Dr. Christoph Rosinger MSc.
christoph.rosinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91142, 95113
Project Staff
01.12.2016 - 31.08.2020
BOKU partners
External partners
Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Aliaksandr V. Puhacheuski
partner
University of Freiburg
Daniela Kleinschmit
partner
Centre Tecnològic Forestal De Catalunya (CTFC) – Solsona
Irina Prokofieva
partner
SLU
Camilla Widmark
coordinator
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Birger Solberg
partner
Luleå University of Technology
Karin Beland Lindahl
partner
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity
Natalia V. Lukina
partner