Descripción del proyecto
Instrumentos de mercado para la evaluación de los servicios de los ecosistemas forestales
Los bosques desempeñan un papel fundamental en la mitigación del cambio climático, la conservación de la biodiversidad, la regulación del agua, el ocio, la cultura y la salud. Sin embargo, para que los bosques europeos aprovechen plenamente su potencial de prestación de servicios ecosistémicos forestales (SEF), es necesaria una gestión eficaz. El cambio climático afectará a los futuros SEF, mientras que la demanda social de los mismos es dinámica y algunos valores económicos siguen sin explorarse. El equipo del proyecto INTERCEDE, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende solucionar este problema mediante el desarrollo de políticas que utilicen instrumento de mercado para alinear mejor la oferta y la demanda de SEF procedentes de los bosques europeos. El equipo del proyecto creará escenarios basados en SEF para la oferta y la demanda de servicios ecosistémicos, evaluará las inversiones del programa de desarrollo rural de la Unión Europea desde la perspectiva de los pagos por servicios medioambientales y cartografiará y evaluará el panorama de los instrumentos de mercado de la Unión Europea.
Objetivo
Forests are crucial for climate mitigation, biodiversity protection, water flow regulation, recreational, cultural and health services – and many other forest ecosystem services (FES). Yet, as our key challenge, Europe’s forests at present critically undershoot their potential to deliver FES. Climate change will affect future FES supply. Societal demand for FES will be complex, and highly dynamic. Some FES economic values are ill explored. Facing these challenges, INTERCEDE will help to better match future FES supply and demand from Europe’s forests. First, we will project theory-informed yet evidence-based scenarios for future FES supply and demand. Second, as recognized in the EU Forest Strategy, Market-Based Instruments (MBI) can be key in improving tailored incentives and incomes for forest owners to manage their forest for socially optimal FES provision. MBI can thus help aligning FES supply with multidimensional demand. We will comprehensively map and evaluate Europe’s current MBI landscape, adding new rigorous impact evaluations of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes, while also assessing the EU’s Rural Development Programme (RDP) investments from a PES angle. From this, we will develop effective, adaptable and scalable MBI policies. We can only achieve this by systematically connecting research to policy and practice, creating our multi-actor aligned Transdisciplinary Forum as key interface. Our consortium brings together small and medium-sized enterprises assisting forest owners in FES management practices, organisations representing landowners and environmental interests, and researchers who excel in modelling and valuing FES, in the economics of instrument design, and in governance and policy analysis. The consortium will mid-way in the project set up an Accelerator Service for (new or pre-existing) PES and MBI schemes, piloting new designs and MBI business models to boost the development, outcomes and impacts of targeted interventions.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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