To collect actions, meetings and outcomes with stakeholders especially in the five case study regions with pilot demonstrations
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 …
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 …
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 …
PES public webinar series setting by the French pilot stakeholders Read More »
A decision support approach using the concept of aspiration-based utility functions is proposed for formulating forest land-use strategies to improve sustainability. It combines the use of linear programming and geographic information systems. As a response to meet new sustainable strategies in Sweden, the development of the Heureka system was initiated by the Swedish partners at …
Heureka, the decision support system for Swedish forests Read More »
The first result of the forest owners survey is delivered by our partner in France and it is in progress by the other partners (Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Austria). Depending on national research designs some partner institutions circulated the survey in their pilot regions (France, Portugal), others spread it countrywide (Austria).This survey is conducted to …
The outcome of the private forest owners survey: The French pilot (Grand Est region) Read More »
A recently published article from our Portuguese partner ISA draws a glance at landscape level of the ecosystem services biodiversity conservation at the pilot region Vale do Sousa. Botequim et al. integrate an effective stand-level biodiversity indicator that reflects tree species composition, stand age, and understory coverage under divergent climate conditions and linear programming optimization …
In the French pilot demonstration a first local stakeholder meeting took place in Octobre 2019 in Nancy. Together with Mathieu Ruillet of the Metropole GrandNancy in the framework of the project “Des Hommes et des Abres” Anne Stenger-Letheux and Jens Abildtrup from the BETA division of INRAE welcomed about 20 participants. These stakeholders consisted of …
In Bad Goisern within the heart of the Austrian pilot demonstration site of the Ausseerland an expert round of the Austrian Federal Forests and the University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences Vienna held their first workshop. The NOBEL team members in Austria met with the stakeholders on the 23rd July 2019 to collect the …
