Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning
(eg wood) and regulating (eg climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (eg recreation) …

Integrated forest management (IFM) can help reconcile critical trade-offs between goals in
forest management, such as nature conservation and biomass production. The challenge of …

Forests play a crucial role in the transition towards a bioeconomy by providing biomass to
substitute for fossil-based materials and energy. However, a policy-policy conflict exists …

Forests cover about 40% of the European Union (EU), providing a wide spectrum of
invaluable ecosystem services to more than half a billion people. In order to protect and …

Various national policies guide forest use, but often with competing policy objectives leading
to divergent management paradigms. Incoherent policies may negatively impact the …

The term bioeconomy has been generated as a new discourse in the environmental policy
arena. This paper raises three questions:(i) are environmental concerns integrated in the …

Little is known about the emergence and development of novel governance approaches for
forest ecosystem services provision, what drives them, and how they can be fostered …

Forest subsidies are widely used to achieve policy objectives aimed at maintaining and
supporting the provision of the various ecosystem services provided by forests. In the …

The European forest-based sector is undergoing major changes, while, at the same time, the
role of a forest-based bioeconomy is being politically discussed. The aim of this study is to …

This paper analyses the occurrence of governance innovations for forest ecosystem service
(FES) provision in the forestry sector in Europe and the factors that influence innovation …