Clash or concert in European forests? Integration and coherence of forest ecosystem service–related national policies

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ID11463599
AutoresKarin Beland Lindahl (0000-0001-6145-2252, Luleå University of Technology, autor correspondente), Charlotta Söderberg (0000-0003-2030-2965, Luleå University of Technology), Natalia Lukina, Н В Лукина (0000-0002-1235-0177, Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity), Daria Tebenkova (0000-0001-9240-5395, Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity), Mireia Pecurul (Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia), Helga Pülzl (0000-0001-7920-5903, European Forest Institute), Metodi Sotirov (0000-0002-3548-707X, University of Freiburg), Camilla Widmark (0000-0002-1559-6471, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Ano2023
Volume129
Páginas106617
Data de publicação2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLand Use Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0264-8377 • E-ISSN: 1873-5754
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106617
OpenAlexW4324026332
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas45

This paper compares how forest ecosystem service–related policies are integrated in different national European forest governance contexts. Efforts to achieve policy integration at the EU and national levels are often described in terms of limited success. Our analysis of forest, energy/bioeconomy, climate, and conservation policies suggests that notions of progress or failure merit careful assessment. Combining theories of policy integration (PI), environmental policy integration (EPI), and policy coherence, we argue that integration outcomes depend on the combined effects of the degree and nature of PI, EPI, and multilevel coherence in the context of the prevailing forest governance system. The nature of the interdependencies, specifically anticipated synergies, and the scope of FES-related climate objectives, are crucial. Realizing the range of FES-related objectives entails safeguarding objectives not synergistically aligned with economic aims. Failures to safeguard biodiversity and regulating and cultural ecosystem services in the process of integration may have far-reaching consequences

Business · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economics · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Interdependence · Multi-level governance · Political science · Safeguarding · Scope (computer science · Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development · Computer Science · Forest Management and Policy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology