Project description
Multi-criteria decision support system for sustainable forest ecosystem services
Forest ecosystems (approx. 42 % of the European Union’s total land area) have been affected by changing climate conditions, e.g. droughts, heavy rain events, frequent and intensive storms, pests and forest fires. The EU-funded ONEforest project will address this challenge by studying sustainable forest management (SFM) practices in four European biogeographical case study regions, which shall ensure or even increase Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) at the same time. This also includes forest operations and the application of engineered topsoil cover. A newly developed Multi-Criteria Decision Support System (MCDSS) will provide information for decision-making to stakeholders by assessing SFM, synergies and trade-offs of FES, reliable wood supply, and stakeholder interests through indicators of social, economic, and environmental dimensions.
Objective
Forest ecosystems cover 42 % of the European Union’s total land area and strong efforts have been made to facilitate an increase of multiple forest ecosystem services to form robust forest stands. However, all ecosystems recently have been hit by rapidly changing climatic conditions, e.g. long lasting droughts, heavy rain events, frequent and intensive storms, pests and forest fires. To address this within future silviculture management concepts, forest operations and wood supply, all stakeholders along the Forest Wood Value Chain will need to form a common idea of future forest management, while none of them can increase its benefit without harming another one.
Therefore, four Case Studies Regions will be established, following Europe’s biogeographical regions, to study climate-resilient silvicultural management practices and new methods of seeding and planting by the application of an own engineered topsoil cover based on wood fibres. Corresponding forest operations and concepts of actions in case of disturbances will be developed under selected sustainability criteria. Stakeholders will be activated in the participative process of socio-economic studies. The information will be consolidated in Dynamic Value Chain Model to assess the impact of the Forest-Wood Value Chain on regional development quantified by a set of economic, environmental and social indicators. The newly developed Multi-Criteria Decision Support System visualises decision-making by comparing Sustainable Forest Management, synergies and trade-offs of Forest Ecosystems, reliable wood supply, and stakeholder interests through FWVC indicators of social, economic, and environmental dimensions, by applying methods of Goal Programming. The easy-to-use software application will be available for Forest-Wood Value Chain stakeholders globally. All ONEforest results will be implemented in new Model Forests, being part of the International Model Forest Network for regional adapted forest management concept.
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83024 Rosenheim
Germany
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Participants (19)
38122 Trento
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39100 Bolzano
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1000 Ljubljana
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8010 Graz
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80538 Munchen
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51014 Tartu
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8903 Birmensdorf
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25280 Solsona
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51005 Tartu
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80333 Muenchen
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750 07 Uppsala
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40005 Soria
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79098 Freiburg
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50122 Firenze
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50060 Londa (Fi)
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01069 Dresden
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37073 Gottingen
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Schwabisch Hall
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80331 Munchen
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