Balancing forest area preservation and biodiversity offsets in the forest: Forest owners’ policy preferences

Tobias Schulz and Tamaki Ohmura

Land Use Policy, 2024, vol. 147, issue C

Abstract: In many densely populated countries in Europe, land suitable for agriculture, forest and protected areas is becoming scarcer with expanding settlement area. One way to mitigate this pressure is to abstain from the in-kind replacement of forest clearances and to allow for their compensation by nature conservation projects on areas other than agricultural land, including the forest itself. It is particularly the latter that implies a difficult trade-off for forest owners who adhere to the forest area preservation principle but at the same time support biodiversity offsetting in the forest as a potential new source of income.

Keywords: Forest clearances; Afforestation; Biodiversity offsetting; Land-use competition; Spatial coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107342

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