Descrizione del progetto
Una trasformazione ottimale e sostenibile per le foreste europee
Le foreste di tutta Europa devono affrontare minacce senza precedenti dovute a pressioni naturali e antropiche, che portano alla perdita di habitat, alla frammentazione e alla diminuzione dei servizi ecosistemici. In questo contesto, il progetto SMURF, finanziato dall’UE, si concentra sulla gestione forestale sostenibile per le piccole proprietà forestali. Il suo approccio su tre fronti comprende modelli organizzativi su misura, formazione e linee guida per i responsabili politici. Promuovendo nuovi ecosistemi e incorporando pratiche di selvicoltura «più vicine alla natura» come l’impianto, il diradamento, la raccolta e la rigenerazione degli alberi, SMURF intende contrastare le sfide poste dai cambiamenti climatici e dalle attività umane. Con un consorzio eterogeneo e un approccio olistico, SMURF è destinato a rivoluzionare la catena del valore forestale, assicurando un futuro sostenibile agli ecosistemi vitali dell’Europa.
Obiettivo
The intensification of natural (extreme weather events and other climate change consequences, biological invasions) and anthropogenic (atmospheric pollution, climate change, change of land use such as the expansion of urban areas, loss of forest management practices, fragmentation of forest properties, etc.) environmental pressures still represent important threats to forests ecosystems; which have resulted in land and forest fragmentation (over 16 million owners in Europe), lack of forest sanitation, loss of forest habitat and reduction of the ecosystem services (including carbon sequestration, timber production, recreation, and biodiversity conservation)2, .
The SMURF project, in line with EU’s Forest Strategy, will help promoting sustainable forest management and conserving Europe's forests, by developing a set of solutions focussing on small forest properties: (1) new tailored organizational and business models, based on Closer to Nature Sylviculture practices (CNS), promoting new ecosystem services (carbon farming and biodiversity) and the valorisation of wood/non-wood forest products (2) training, digital tools and other support structures/instruments and (3) guidelines to support policy-makers establishing regional, national and European standardized policies and retribution systems by creating a harmonized European Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) system. With a translational, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach, thanks to its complementary and polyvalent consortium members composed of private, academia and public stakeholders, and taking into account sociocultural and geodemographic factors sometimes neglected, SMURF will provide sustainability solutions for the entire forest-based value chain.
Campo scientifico
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculture
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiodiversity conservation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
40005 Soria
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