The multifunctional role of forests-policies, methods and case studies (2024)

The multifunctional role of forests

New challenges for the forest sector to contribute to rural development in Europe

Land Use Policy, 2000

The European forest as source of industrial raw materials

Land Use Policy, 2000

Forest policy goals in Poland in light of the current forestry aims in Europe Part 4. Trends in forest policy of selected European countries

Leśne Prace Badawcze / Forest Research Papers, 2018

The aim of this paper was to review and analyse the main forest policy documents in terms of the priorities formulated at the European level for Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany (federal level) and Brandenburg (federal state level), as well as Finland. a total of 14 documents was covered in this research, including national forest programmes and forest strategies implemented in the period from 1997 to 2017. In all of the studied countries, forest policy documents were periodically revised and updated to account for changing political, economic, social and environmental conditions. as a result, at some point during the examined 20-year period, in each country the forestry priorities and goals were defined by a national forest programme. Furthermore, the vast majority of the priorities set by the European forest policy was reflected in the programmes and strategies of all the countries. certain priorities concerning the illegal harvesting and trade of forest products, however, have not been included in the explored documents. combating illegal harvesting of forest products and related trade is a corner stone of the eU Flegt Action Plan and extends beyond forest policy issues of EU member states. The second corner stone is to ensure the contribution of the forest sector to a green economy, including a new concept of green economy, which still needs to be incorporated into national forest policies. Unlike Poland, in the studied countries the priorities of European forest policy have been included in single policy programmes or strategies, which define aims and goals, as well as means of their implementation in a comprehensive and coherent manner. This promotes strengthening the position of the forest sector within the national socioeconomic system and supports active shaping of its relations to other sectors of the economy.

Working in (Slow) Progress: Socio-Environmental and Economic Dynamics in the Forestry Sector and the Contribution to Sustainable Development in Europe

Sustainability

Forest ecosystems are increasingly subject to disturbances, such as extreme (climate) events, fires and pathological outbreaks, which exert significant (and still poorly quantified) economic impacts, despite their intrinsic resilience. How forest management addresses these challenges will have profound effects on human health, environmental diversity, (ecological and economic) productivity and the ability of forest ecosystems to recovery from exogenous shocks. Assuming forests as ensuring ecosystem services that are vital to society and human well-being, in addition to providing wood material, a better knowledge of forest ecosystems appears a key requirement to delineate a developmental strategy that guarantees environmental protection objectives and achievement of climate and energy targets. In the context of Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, the information available on forest management practices in Europe still seems not completely suitable to prov...

A new principle of the European Union Forest Policy: the cascading use of wood products

Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments, 2015

The Comparison of Some Selected Aspects of Forest Economy in Frontier Regions of Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany

Forestry in the long sweep of history

Forest policy for private forestry: global and regional challenges, 2003

This paper describes the long-term economic dynamics of the forest sector which is driven by the depletion of natural forests. It is emphasized that the dynamics rely heavily on both technological innovation and capital/resource substitution - the substitution of capital for timber in the manufacture of forest products, and the substitution of capital for land in the production of timber. Based on this analysis, two areas of contemporary forest policy: (1) the appropriate role of timber plantations in timber supply, and (2) the appropriate role for forest in climatic change policy, are examined.

The Importance of Forestry at Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Level

2019

The products and services provided by the forest to the population have a great economic and social value, the place of the forestry economy in the national economy being illustrated by the demand for these products and services on the internal and international market. Forests play an important role, not only in the intake of carbon dioxide, but also in the production of biomass and through their potential they have in the renewable energies field. These are important also from a social and cultural point of view, being attractive for the rural and urban population, allowing recreational or healthy activities to take place and they represent an important cultural patrimony. They produce a multitude of goods (wood, berries, edible mushrooms) and protective and recreational activities (hydrological, soil and biodiversity protection). Thus, more and more entrepreneurs tend to develop a business in the field of forestry and forestry exploitation. The purpose of this paper is to determi...

The Southern Europe Forest Owners Union and the European sustainability forestry path

2009

Under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization, forest policies have been regionalized according to forest areas and political borders. Global economic and development goals have also shaped forest policies and made private, public and collective actors work together on specific territories. Indeed, the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) stems from just such a process of regionalization. The MCPFE manages various types of forests from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. Thus, the issue of forest regulation hinges upon its territorial dimension.