Governance Innovations for forest ecosystem service provision – Insights from an EU-wide survey

Mann, Carsten; Loft, Lasse; Hernández‐Morcillo, Mónica; Primmer, Eeva; Bussola, Francesca; Falco, Enzo; Geneletti, Davide; Dobrowolska, Ewelina; Grossmann, Carol M.; Bottaro, Giorgia; Schleyer, Christian; Kluvánková, Tatiana; Garcia, Gino; Lovrić, Marko; Torralba, Mario; Plieninger, Tobías; Winkel, Georg

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.032

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“…Firstly, the size of forest property did not appear to affect forest owners' preferences in any significant way. Previous studies have provided conflicting indications on this matter [17,[127][128][129][130], prompting our examination.…”

Section: Effects Of Forest Property Size and Regional Ecological Cond...mentioning

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Uncovering the Latent Preferences of Slovenia’s Private Forest Owners in the Context of Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Services through a Hypothetical Scheme

Plevnik,

Japelj

2023

Forests

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Background and objectives: Successful policy implementation relies on understanding stakeholders’ willingness to contribute to policy goals. The EU Green Deal, with strategies on forests, biodiversity, and the bioeconomy, also depends on the performance of the forestry sector, including a significant portion of privately owned forests. Materials and methods: We conducted a nationwide survey among a sample of 341 private forest owners in Slovenia (total population of 424,086). The online questionnaire had three sections: (1) knowledge and priorities regarding ecosystem services and the bioeconomy, (2) a discrete choice experiment for eliciting preferences concerning the implementation of activities supporting strategic goals originating from EU Green Deal policies, and (3) socio-economic data and future forest management objectives. Results: The results indicated heterogeneity in preferences for performing activities on private forest lands to enhance specific forest ES that contribute to policy goals. More than half of the respondents (57.6%) exhibited a reluctance to implement activities and were skeptical of higher compensation payments, whereas the rest expressed an inclination towards changing their forest management. Conclusions: Slovenia’s private forest owners appear to be heterogeneous in their willingness to participate in a hypothetical ES enhancement scheme that could contribute to some EU Green Deal goals. Policymakers must recognize intrinsic motives and social norms that affect the willingness of forest owners to be engaged to increase the acceptance of solutions.

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Section: Effects Of Forest Property Size and Regional Ecological Cond...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering the Latent Preferences of Slovenia’s Private Forest Owners in the Context of Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Services through a Hypothetical Scheme

Plevnik,

Japelj

2023

Forests

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“…Figures 1 and 2 present key findings from another European-wide survey on the importance of FES that was conducted within the H2020 project SINCERE, in collaboration with the H2020 project InnoForESt (see Mann et al, 2022). This survey focuses on forest owners' and managers' perceptions of various aspects relating to FES supply and demand.…”

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Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options

Winkel

Lovrić

Muys

et al. 2022

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…Forestland has great ecological effects and provides a variety of ecosystem services including wildlife habitat, carbon storage, climate control, etc. [68]. As a result, forestland has the highest EQ.…”

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Land Use and Climate Change Altered the Ecological Quality in the Luanhe River Basin

Zhang

Song

Fan

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Monitoring and assessing ecological quality (EQ) can help to understand the status and dynamics of the local ecosystem. Moreover, land use and climate change increase uncertainty in the ecosystem. The Luanhe River Basin (LHRB) is critical to the ecological security of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. To support ecosystem protection in the LHRB, we evaluated the EQ from 2001 to 2020 based on the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) with the Google Earth Engine (GEE). Then, we introduced the coefficient of variation, Theil–Sen analysis, and Mann–Kendall test to quantify the variation and trend of the EQ. The results showed that the EQ in LHRB was relatively good, with 61.08% of the basin rated as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. The spatial distribution of EQ was low in the north and high in the middle, with strong improvement in the north and serious degradation in the south. The average EQ ranged from 0.58 to 0.64, showing a significant increasing trend. Furthermore, we found that the expansion of construction land has caused degradation of the EQ, whereas climate change likely improved the EQ in the upper and middle reaches of the LHRB. The results could help in understanding the state and trend of the eco-environment in the LHRB and support decision-making in land-use management and climate change.

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Governance Innovations for forest ecosystem service provision – Insights from an EU-wide survey

Cited by 23 publications

References 84 publications

Uncovering the Latent Preferences of Slovenia’s Private Forest Owners in the Context of Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Services through a Hypothetical Scheme

Uncovering the Latent Preferences of Slovenia’s Private Forest Owners in the Context of Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Services through a Hypothetical Scheme

Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options

Land Use and Climate Change Altered the Ecological Quality in the Luanhe River Basin

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