Mona Nazari

Advancing ecosystem services auctions: Insights from an international Delphi panel

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In a groundbreaking study recently published in Ecosystem Services, our Nobel partner has explored the potential of conservation auctions to improve landscape-scale environmental management. The Nobel-winning team continues to enthusiastically share their findings, offering new solutions for balancing economic and environmental outcomes through payment for ecosystem services (PES). Conservation auctions, or tenders, allow governments and …

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Pioneering Ecosystem Service Markets: A Game-Changer for Private Forest Owners

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Understanding the motivations and behaviors of private forest owners is paramount for crafting effective forest policies. Misguided policies can lead to inefficiencies, underscoring the need for precise targeting. The French NOBEL partner ‘INRAE‘, delves into this crucial realm in their recent publication titled “Probabilistic typology of private forest owners: A tool to target the development …

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Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden

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In order to propose and develop a system to support and improve co-planning between reindeer husbandry and forestry with a long time perspective at the landscape scale, the Swedish partners of NOBEL demonstrate a new and improved basis for planning and decision-making in the long term.The study area is located in the County of Västerbotten …

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The Forest EcoValue Project: A New Project for Advancing Alpine Space Macro-Regional Strategy and Collaborating with Action Groups for Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Services

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It is great to see that the concern for ecosystem services and sustainable ecosystems market is still strong and growing. Following the Nobel initiative, many projects have emerged to fulfill these goals from different perspectives. One recent project is Forest EcoValue, which contributes to this important work. The Forest EcoValue project, funded by the Interreg …

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POLICY OPTIONS FOR ENSURING FOREST ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

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“How can we ensure the provision of numerous forest ecosystem services (FES)? This question has become increasingly urgent in light of the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises. The lack of adequate provisions of FES, such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection, is often seen as a market failure that requires addressing through various policy instruments, …

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“The Digital Green Wave: Empowering Change Through Social Networks and Influencers for Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)”

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Attention, environmental enthusiasts! We invite you to be part of an exciting research project led by the BOKU team of NOBEL, titled “The world of payments for ecosystem services with and without social networks: how influencers can accelerate the adoption of payment practices for ecosystem services (PES)?” This groundbreaking study aims to harness the power …

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PES public webinar series setting by the French pilot stakeholders

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The forestry sector of the French pilot “Grand Est” seems to be in full transition, with owners who have already taken the step to more sustainable management of their properties without waiting to be encouraged to do so. one of the recent steps that are taken by the regional association “People and Trees” (Grand Est …

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“LIFE ProForPES” a new approach for promoting PES programs

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Building from the experiences of crucial projects, such as Forest PES Horizon projects (Nobel, SINCERE and InnoForESt), the LIFE ProForPES project (Promoting effective forest PES through the EU financial and state aid programs) aims firstly at collecting, synthesising, and integrating the knowledge and the know-how already present at EU 27 level on PES and PES-like schemes. Secondly, …

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An up-to-date list of indicators to measure Ecosystem Services

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In order to provide a set of indicators supporting the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Service, the NOBEL partners have published a systematic review paper recently. In this study, they performed an extensive systematic literature review aimed to complete a list of indicators that could be used as proxies to evaluate each one of the …

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How to govern Europe’s forests for multiple Forest Ecosystem Services?

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The answer can be found in the EFI Policy Brief 3 document written by Winkel et al which has been published recently. A new EFI Policy Brief sets out four policy pathways which can support our forests to provide the goods and services society demands. Europe’s forests provide multiple forest ecosystem services (FES) including wood, …

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