Sectoral policies cause incoherence in forest management and ecosystem service provisioning

Clemens Blattert, Kyle Eyvindson, Markus Hartikainen, Daniel Burgas, Maria Potterf, Jani Lukkarinen, Tord Snäll, Astor Toraño-Caicoya and Mikko Mönkkönen

Forest Policy and Economics, 2022, vol. 136, issue C

Abstract: Various national policies guide forest use, but often with competing policy objectives leading to divergent management paradigms. Incoherent policies may negatively impact the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services (FES), and forest multifunctionality. There is uncertainty among policymakers about the impacts of policies on the real world. We translated the policy documents of Finland into scenarios including the quantitative demands for FES, representing: the national forest strategy (NFS), the biodiversity strategy (BDS), and the bioeconomy strategy (BES). We simulated a Finland-wide systematic sample of forest stands with alternative management regimes and climate change. Finally, we used multi-objective optimization to identify the combination of management regimes matching best with each policy scenario and analysed their long-term effects on FES.

Keywords: Forest policy; Ecosystem services; Biodiversity; Multi-objective optimization; Forest management; Climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102689

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