POLYFORES: Decision-making Support for Forest Ecosystem Services in Europe – Value Assessment, Synergy Effects and Trade-Offs

The overall objective of the POLYFORES project is to generate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge, which could help decision makers in policy and practices to find a balance between the changing social demands on various forest ecosystem goods and services. The German project team in particular develops and applies methodological tools and designs that encourage participatory discussion and communication processes, both on-line and on-site, between decision-makers, practitioners, stakeholders and scientists. It examines the barriers to and drivers of policy-oriented social learning between these actors as a key support to forest policy and forest management to reconcile trade-offs and to identify synergies between different societal demands for an integrated provision of forest ecosystem goods and services.

Ansprechpartner: Sotirov M
Tel: 2033723
Email: metodi.sotirov@ifp.uni-freiburg.de

Projektbeginn: 31.03.2017
Projektende: 28.02.2020

Kleinschmit D, Sotirov M

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Professur für Forst- und Umweltpolitik
Prof. Dr. Kleinschmit
Tennenbacher Str. 4
79106 Freiburg i. Br.

Telefon: 0761/203-3713
Fax: 0761/203-3705
http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/ifp

• Laura Dieguez; Metodi Sotirov

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden European Forest Institute (EFI), Finland Luleå Technical University (LTU), Sweden Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (ALU-FR), Germany University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU – InFER), Austria Centre of Technologic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Spain Institute of Experimental Botany at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (IEB NASB), Belarus Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS (CEPF RAS), Russian Federation

• BLE; BMEL, Bund
• EU-Kommission/FP-7, EU