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Forest ecosystems provide various services that are crucial to human beings, in which carbon sequestration and storage is one of them with the most market potential and is usually governed by market-based instruments (MBIs). MBIs do not operate alone but in the hybrid governance arrangements. While the importance of public institutions has been ide...
The ongoing global and large-scale changes in markets, demographics, and use of resources are impacting mountain peoples and regions. In mountain areas, resources have been governed through community-based systems for resource management for centuries, ensuring stewardship and local decision-making over the resources. Due to the importance of such...
La continua crescita della domanda di legname, registrata negli ultimi anni, richiede grandi quantitativi di materia prima e semilavorati che devono essere forniti in maniera regolare. Questa crescente domanda può essere soddisfatta solamente da ditte boschive ed imprese di prima trasformazione contraddistinte da una media-grande capacità produttiv...
This study is part of a project (Sheep Al.L. Chain, RDP Veneto Region) aiming to improve
the competitiveness of local sheep breed farms through valorization of their links with mountain agroecosystems. We considered two local sheep breeds of the eastern Italian Alps, “Alpagota” and “Lamon”, which have a population of 400 and 3000 heads, respectivel...
European mountain areas have experienced a persistent loss of agricultural land and economic activities over time, with negative effects from both an environmental and a cultural perspective. In 2012, the European Union devised the mountain product (MP) quality term to provide to mountain producers a tool to better market their products and thus in...
Implementing the Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) concept into practice requires interaction among key stakeholders, especially forest owners and managers, policymakers (or regulators in general), forest consultants, and forest users. But what could be the most effective policy instruments to achieve climate smartness in mountain forests? Which ones wo...
The effects of climate change are increasingly more visible on natural ecosystems. Being mountain forest ecosystems among the most vulnerable and the most affected, they appear to be, at the same time, the most suitable for the assessment of climate change effects on ecosystem services. Assuming this, we review the literature on the economic assess...
In the effort to advance the knowledge of and disentangle the diversity of emerging forest-based initiatives for wellbeing, we propose (1) an umbrella definition (i.e., forest care initiatives (FCIs)), (2) a custom-made repository to collect and systematize information on FCIs in Italy, and (3) discuss a categorization scheme to cluster initiatives...
Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them inclusively. Building on methods to make sense of diversity, we use reflexive grounded inquiry in fifteen cases in Italy, Scotland, Slovenia and Sweden. Within four dimensio...
Research Highlights: This review gives an overview of existing literature on the emerging topic of human wellbeing-forest contact nexus and provides a preliminary framework linking forests to wellbeing by highlighting key variables affecting this relationship. Background and Objectives: Existing literature reveals the psychological, physiological a...
The PESFOR-W COST Action is a network of researchers and practitioners from 40 countries-from Europe and beyond-interested in the effectiveness of woodland measures in reducing agricultural diffuse pollution to watercourses, and the design and governance and cost-effectiveness of woodlands for water payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes. Di...
This report presents results from a survey on forestry students’ opinions of the evaluation procedures adopted at University of Padova for forestry-related courses. The poll was organized by the forestry students’ association – AUSF. The data allowed a better understanding of the student’s perspective regarding their engagement in quality assessmen...
The EU rural development policy has addressed challenges related to climate change in agriculture by introducing public voluntary schemes, which financially support the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Several factors, most of which are non-financial ones, drive adoption and continuation of these schemes by farmers. Despite the imp...
As non-industrial private forest owners own a large share of forests in Europe, their management choices can largely affect the delivery of forest ecosystem services of different types: provisional, regulation and cultural. The literature is rich in studies exploring the delivery of both provisional services (timber or wood products) and cultural o...
Oral presentation of preliminary study at 1st World Conference of Forests for Public Health in Athens 8-10 May 2019
The Inventory has been developed within the H2020 project: SINCERE. It gathers those Innovation Mechanisms implemented in Europe to spur the provision and the enhancement of forest ecosystem services.
The aim of this study is to help build a knowledge base for the review of the EU Forest Strategy that was adopted by the European Commission in 2013. The EU Forest Strategy addresses 8 priority areas that were identified as being particularly relevant for forests and the forest-based sector until 2020. These priority areas address: (i) support of r...
The importance of forest ecosystems to human well-being cannot be overstated. But forest management strategies do not necessarily seek to enhance the value of all forest goods and services, whether locally, nationally or internationally. In most cases, management considers a limited portfolio of ecosystem services, mainly limited to those goods and...
The need to assess the impact of agri-environmental schemes from a long-term perspective has cast light on the temporal dynamics of farmer participation over the duration of single contracts. This assessment would help to better target and tailor schemes and achieve more persistent environmental benefits. This issue is addressed by considering the...
A sistematic literature review to give a prelimnary answerto to the following questions: to what extent are positive health benefits of forest exposure on health and wellbeing assessed and quantified in scientific literature? And there is a focus on which "dimensions" of forest ecosystem are responsible for the effects?
Around half of EU river catchments report below standard water quality and diffuse pollution poses long-term chronic risks for over a third of European freshwater bodies. The EU WaterFramework Directive (WFD) aims to restore Europe’s water bodies to “Good Ecological Status”by 2027, but many Member States are struggling to achieve this. Meeting WFD...
Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices (EFFPs) are tools aimed at providing ecosystem services or mitigating the environmental impacts of intensive agriculture. A large literature has explored the factors affecting the adoption of EFFPs by farmers. However, opposite effects of several factors on uptake have often emerged. We carried out a quali...
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep...
The effect a wooden-built environment exerts on the physical and psychological well-being of people has mostly been investigated by evaluation, through a limited number of sensory modalities, of small size stimuli. In this research, two real-size wooden and plaster indoor settings were used to examine the influence of wood on people’s emotions and...
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep...
In this chapter, we look at the role that a forest held in common can play in supporting local development and promoting the livelihood of the local community. Four dissimilar cases in Italy, Slovenia, Sweden and UK are described and analysed by applying the Sustainable Livelihood Framework. Despite very different pre-requisites and local condition...
The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure restoration of Europe’s water bodies to “good ecological status” by 2027. Many Member States will struggle to meet this target, with around half of EU river catchments currently reporting below standard water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture represents a major pressure, affecting over 90% o...
This paper analyzes the global-warming potential of materials used to construct the walls of 3 building types—traditional, semimodern, and modern—in Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone in Nepal, using the life-cycle assessment approach. Traditional buildings use local materials, mainly wood and stone, while semimodern and modern buildings use...
A particular challenge for mountainous areas in Italy is the definition of suitable governance models for local resources. Several solutions have been proposed over time, resulting in the co-existence of a number of decision-making centers. A crucial role is played by municipalities, but, in recent years, village commons – regola (singular) / regol...
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is one of the most harmful invasive species in Europe and North America, causing enormous economic
damage to broadleaved trees growing in urban parks and gardens. As a quarantine species, everywhere it has been introduced
ALB has led to the application of expens...
Exposure to disturbances of different nature and scale can represent a threat for the survival of rural communities but also a stimulus to adjustment. Disturbance, robustness and adaptation are here examined through the lens of Forest Commons, as a typical institution, developed by communities in the southeastern Alps since several centuries. The p...
The methodologies and operational instruments for the assessment of forest governance are still under development. While there are some advanced initiatives focused on forest governance assessment at international/national scale, there are relatively few at local level. However, assessments of local forest governance would be useful for both policy...
Secondo la letteratura, la propensione a erogare Servizi Ecosistemici da parte dei proprietari forestali dipende essenzialmente da tre gruppi di fattori: i) le caratteristiche della proprietà forestale (ad esempio la dimensione, il grado di frazionamento, le forme di gestione); ii) le caratteristiche del proprietario (ad esempio la forma di proprie...
Since the 1990, governance and social capital have increasingly attracted the attention of theorists and applied researchers in relation to environmental resources management. They are often considered key-factors for rural development at local level.
In forestry, the two concepts have been explored mainly in relation to community forests and parti...
Forests produce a wide array of goods, both private and public. The demand for forest ecosystem services is increasing in many European countries, yet there is still a scarcity of data on values at regional scale for Alpine areas. A Choice Experiment survey has been conducted in order to explore preferences, uses and the willingness of the Veneto p...
The paper proposes a ‘component-based’ approach to guide the choice of the social discount rate in natural resources damage assessment, where time and discounting are key features. It is a multi-rate discounting scheme, which draws on concepts from dual-rate and time-declining approaches. Each damage component is discounted at a component-specific...
This paper examines the environmental income comes from wild medicinal plant collection and selling, and how does it contributes to total annual household income. The study was carried out during March and April 2012 in Daman Village Development Committee (VDC) of Makawanpur district in Nepal. The data were collected through social science methods...
Nepal is an important source of wild medicinal plants in the world. Nepalese especially rural people have a long tradition of folk practices for utilization of medicinal plants for various purposes. This paper examines the traditional uses and management practices of such plants in the locality. Therefore, a case study was conducted during March-Ap...
The paper reviews the state of implementation of one of the most relevant mechanisms of payments for environmental services (PES) in the forestry sector: the systems of payments for water-related forest services. Three water services with economic relevance are analyzed with reference to the Italian context: hydropower generation, tap-water supply...
Since 2004, an outbreak of Ips acuminatus killed thousands of Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the southeast Alps. In autumn 2007, all infested trees were cut and the timber was harvested by helicopter. The aims of this article are to provide detailed information on total stump-to-truck costs and to analyze the single components of those costs....
A shift from government to governance in the approaches to forest policy formulation and related decision-making procedures is taking place at global level. Policy-makers and other actors traditionally involved in forestry-related decision-making have to tackle and apply new concepts and tools, like public participation, networking and governance m...
Most of the emerging economic mechanisms for promoting SFM, such as REDD projects, PES schemes and forest certification initiatives, are expected to involve profound changes in the role of public authorities, their relationships and networking with other actors, decision-making procedures, etc.: in short, in governance. In the current debate on new...
In the last decades, with the rapid structural changes in society and in consumers’ attitudes at both global and local scale, forest landowners and managers are facing a complex and multi-faceted demand, in which the role of forest services - recreation, landscape, biodiversity, C-sequestration amongst others - has become increasingly important. Ne...
This paper assesses the private and social profitability of current strategies for managing processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) in Portuguese pine forests, looking at economic and environmental costs and benefits. Costs include the expenses for forest treatment and the social costs of threats to human health (dermatitis amongst others); be...
Agri-environmental measures play an important role in Italian rural areas, as shown by the financial commitment to the Rural Development programmes. However, in contrast with other European Union (EU) countries, policy-makers still have limited experience on how farmers approach environmental incentive schemes. This paper casts new light on this is...
Starting from the McSharry reform in 1992, environmental conservation and minimization of negative agricultural impacts through adoption of agri-environmental farming practices have gained momentum within the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Agenda 2000 and the recent issuing of Regulation 1698/2005 – with its strong accent on CAPâÂ...
A sudden outbreak and range expansion of the pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae) was reported in 1999-2005 for Venosta/Vinschgau, an area or northern Italy where the species generally occurs at low density. The forests of Pinus nigra (introduced) and Pinus sylvestris (native) were attacked on a total area of...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic value of Mediterranean forests, including not just commonly measured benefits such as timber but also, more importantly, the public goods and externalities they provide. It consists of 25 chapters structured into 3 parts: part 1 provides an overview of the problem and of the approach follo...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic value of Mediterranean forests, including not just commonly measured benefits such as timber but also, more importantly, the public goods and externalities they provide. It consists of 25 chapters structured into 3 parts: part 1 provides an overview of the problem and of the approach follo...
Good governance approaches in policy formulation and implementation - based on key concepts like participation, networking, transparency and accountability - are more and more adopted by the EU in addressing its rural policies reforms. Public Administrations at all levels should be evaluated with respect to their capacity to respect good governance...
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990.
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L’attuale progettualità, promossa da Ecodolomiti s.r.l., Deola Legna e da l Consorzio di Imprese forestali del Triveneto (CIFORT )), parte dall’idea di aumentare la competitività degli imprenditori del settore forestale e filiera collegata, nonché l’efficienza economica della filiera bosco legno, attraverso la realizzazione d i un portale di ricerca e vendita on line di lotti boschivi principalmente “in piedi”, con applicazioni informatiche a corredo pe r la gestione della sicurezza e organizzazione del lavoro in bosco, applicazioni già presenti sul mercato che saran no tradotte, testate e adeguate al settore cui il progetto si riferisce. Il progetto è finalizzato alla creazione di un sistema modulare e multi-misura di offerta e vendita di legname da parte delle imprese boschive, sistema che, allo stesso tempo, può diventare un collettore e gestore di dati forniti dalle imprese tramite applicativi smarthphone e tablet adeguati alla gestione del cantiere, volti ad incrementare la sicurezza sul lavoro e utili nella tracciabilità del legname, permettendo una libera e reale concorrenza imprenditoriale. La piattaforma punterà ad essere il più possibile flessibile, adattandosi sia alle imprese forestali strutturate, sia alle imprese individuali e alle aziende agricole operanti nel settore foresta-legno.
Il progetto ha come obiettivo primario il superamento della difficoltà di commercializzazione della materia legno (problema individuato) da parte delle imprese forestali venete che, per mancanze strutturali e gestionali, nonché per le difficoltà attuali di recessione economica, si trovano a svendere e a non valorizzare economicamente il legname lavorato.
to synthesize knowledge, provide guidance and encourage collaborative research to improve Europe’s capacity to use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to achieve Water Framework Directive (WFD) targets & other policy objectives through incentives for planting woodlands to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution to watercourses.
Understanding trends in water governance to match EU Water Framework Directive requirements with a focus on agricultural water uses in Italy.