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Forests for Water Services: A Step-by-Step Guide for Payment Schemes

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The aim of this document is to provide guidance on designing appropriate and cost-effective forests for water payment schemes that support tree planting and forest management to protect and improve water quality.

The PESFOR-W COST Action has published this detailed user manual as one of the main outputs of the project. The guide is structured by the main steps involved in establishing a payment scheme, starting with identifying the water issues and how tree planting and forest management can help, managing potential disbenefits, exploring multiple benefits, followed by scheme design, monitoring and communication. [Read more…] about Forests for Water Services: A Step-by-Step Guide for Payment Schemes

Ecosystem and ecosystem services accounts: time for applications

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A new publication of JRC “Ecosystem and ecosystem services accounts: time for applications” presents the proceedings of Session T17 during the Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference in Hannover, Germany in 2019. Eight cases are summarized in the report; applications of ecosystem accounts in Europe, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Uganda, Bulgaria, Andalusia-Spain and Oslo-Norway. Most of these applications are in line with the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) framework and the outcomes are regarded as pilot attempts concluding in interesting messages that should be accounted for in next development steps. [Read more…] about Ecosystem and ecosystem services accounts: time for applications

Integration of hydrological functions of forests into forest management plans concludes in Turkey

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Nature Conservation Center (DKM) in partnership with the General Directorate of Forestry has completed the project “Integration of Hydrological Functions into Forest Management Planning”. The project aimed to improve the technical capacity for the integration of hydrological functions of forests into forest management plans and to implement the developed methodology in a pilot study. A technical guide entitled “Integration of Hydrological Functions into Forest Management Plans” was also created. [Read more…] about Integration of hydrological functions of forests into forest management plans concludes in Turkey

Mapping Europe’s institutional landscape for forest ecosystem service provision, innovations and governance

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ESP members Eeva Primmer, Davide Geneletti, Lasse Loft and others published the paper Mapping Europe’s institutional landscape for forest ecosystem service provision, innovations and governance. The article highlights how mapping and assessing ecosystem services (ES) have been used to support governance. It shows the importance of the institutional landscape that governs ES provision across multiple contexts. A framework is developed and operationalized for the analysis of policy documents that address European forest ES provision. An analysis of how the biophysical supply of forest ES is connected to policies paying attention to ES is given. The article also identifies innovations and the governance mechanisms for the provision of the ES.

You can find the full paper here.

 

Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

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Jani Heino and others published the paper Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. The article describes the vulnerability and importance of lakes. It also describes the differences in lakes and how these differences contribute to the dynamics of these systems. Factors such as lake connectivity in the waterscape and position in the landscape are described as determining the degree to which a lake is prone to invasion by non‐native species and accumulation of harmful substances. Lastly, the paper looks at monitoring and restoration of lake biodiversity and ecosystem services, and also the challenges that hinder adaptive management of lakes.

You can find the full paper here.