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

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the occurrence of governance innovations for forest ecosystem service (FES) provision in the forestry sector in Europe and the factors that influence innovation development. Based on a European-wide online survey, public and private forest owners and managers representing different property sizes indicate what type of governance innovation activities they engage in, and why. To investigate forestry innovations as systems, the analysis focuses on biophysical, social and technical factors influencing innovation development. The results of our exploratory quantitative analysis show that most innovation activities identified are largely oriented towards biomass production. Accordingly, most forest owners implement efficiency-driven optimisation strategies for forest managem

SUBMITTER: Mann C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8996823 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature