forest economy; land use planning; ecosystem services; agriculture; agglomeration; renewable energies; policy integration
Wilkes-Allemann Jerylee, Ludvig Alice, Gobs Stefan, Lieberherr Eva, Hogl Karl, Selter Andy (2022), Getting a grip on negotiation processes: Addressing trade-offs in mountain biking in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, in
Forest Policy and Economics, 136, 102683-102683.
Schulz Tobias, Lieberherr Eva, Zabel Astrid (2022), How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs, in
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 24(1), 123-136.
Ohmura Tamaki, Creutzburg Leonard (2021), Guarding the For(es)t: Sustainable economy conflicts and stakeholder preference of policy instruments, in
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| Author |
Schulz, Tobias |
| Publication date |
26.01.2022 |
| Persistent Identifier (PID) |
https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.278 |
| Repository |
envidat
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| Abstract |
In April 2020, about 1700 forest owners of the plateau region of the Canton of Berne were invited to participate in a survey (virtually all of them received a conventional paper-pencil questionnaire) about their willingness to provide forest nature conservation measures in their forest to compensate forest clearances that cannot be compensated by afforestation. The questionnaire contained a survey experiment (conjoint analysis) that offered a choice between two options and the status quo in 9 decision-making situations. Of the 607 completed questionnaires that were returned the survey experiment was completed by about 400.
| Author |
Ohmura, Tamaki |
| Publication date |
28.01.2022 |
| Persistent Identifier (PID) |
https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.279. |
| Repository |
Envidat
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| Abstract |
Forest owners of the Canton of Lucerne were survey about their willingness to employ different forest management measures to provicde climate regulation services by forests. Of the nearly 3000 forest owners that received an invitation to a online-survey and the 900 forest owners that received a paper and pencil survey, 1055 valid responses were received. The questionnaire contained a survey experiment in which 9 choice situations were presented to the respondents in which they had the choice between two options and the status quo. This survey experiment part of the survey was completed by 990 respondents.
Content coding of exemption approval decisions for forest clearances
| Author |
Troxler, David |
| Publication date |
07.02.2022 |
| Persistent Identifier (PID) |
10.16904/envidat.282 |
| Repository |
Envidat
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| Abstract |
The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) is responsible for granting exemptions for forest clearances that in principle are prohibited in Switzerland. Initiators of infrastructure projects have to submit an examption approval request to the cantonal forest administration which has to inform the FOEN. The FOEN thus administers a dataset of forest clearance requests and approval decisions that can be requested there. This dataset contains information on a coding of the content of all the forest clearance requests between 2001 and 2017, that elicits whether the reason for the clearance can be attributed to "sustainable economy" objectives such as "green economy", "bioeconomy" and "circular economy".
ATREE Social Network Analysis survey on policy options regarding CO2 mitigation and sequestration in wood and forest
| Author |
Creutzburg, Leonard |
| Publication date |
09.02.2022 |
| Persistent Identifier (PID) |
10.16904/envidat.285 |
| Repository |
Envidat
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| Abstract |
In January 2020 a social network analysis survey was conducted among forest policy stakeholders (at the organizational level) from the Canton of Lucerne as well as the national level. The aim was to elicit positions relative to a set of policy options currently discussed with respect to carbon mitigation and sequestration services of the forest, i.e. forest management and to establish information and collaboration network relations in order to identify actor coalitions as inspired by the "actor coalition framework" approach to policy analysis. Of the 66 questionnaires sent out, 51 were answered (77%). Only one additional organization was indicated as being missing from the provided list of stakeholder organizations.
ATREE Q-methodology statement sorts on forest clearances offsetting in the forest
| Author |
Schulz, Tobias |
| Publication date |
09.02.2022 |
| Persistent Identifier (PID) |
10.16904/envidat.289 |
| Repository |
Envidat
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| Abstract |
In Novdember 2019 about 19 experts on forest surface protection and forest clearances were invited to a workshop in order to discuss policy design and implementation problems regarding the offsetting of forest clearances. In Switzerland such offsetting can be provided under certain circumstances by implementing forest nature conservation measures in the forest instead of providing in-kind compensation, i.e. reafforestation on agricultural land. The workshop included the sorting of 34 statements - that were elaborated beforehand, partially also with help of the participants - according to the "Q-methodology" survey technique (participants arrange given statements about a certain subject into boxes that are normally distributed over a "agree - do not agree" answer scale). The participants included representatives from cantonal and national forest administrations, nature conservation NGOs, forest NGOs, spatial planning NGOs, private counseling enterprises as well as national, cantonal and regional forest owner organizations. The data allows a factor analytical differentiation of actors into groups with distinct positions towards forest clearance compensation as well as a positioning of these groups relative to each statement.
The ATREE project aims at systematically uncovering and proposing solutions for trade-offs between different sustainable economy sectors, proceeding from the perspective of the forest sector. In recent years, forest-land faces growing pressure, particularly in the plateau region of Switzerland and more specifically in agglomerations. The spread of settlement areas increasingly consumes precious agricultural land which intensifies demands to convert forest-land into agricultural or construction land. Renewable energy installations potentially claim surfaces in the woodlands; flood prevention and river restoration might also affect the forest area. Promoting wood as a substitute for other materials and the call for more regional value added chains might result in intensified harvesting and eased timber production. Hence, the potentially growing sectors of a sustainable economy are competing for ever more scarce land and in turn increase the pressure on the forests. This challenge facing a transition toward a sustainable economy is often overlooked in the public debate as well as in the scientific literature. ATREE thus pursues the following research questions: what are the trade-offs between different sectors of a sustainable economy from the perspective of the forest sector, and which policy instruments seem feasible for offsetting these? Which combination of policy instruments (policy mixes) are acceptable to existing actor coalitions in a given region in Switzerland? And what are these policy mixes’ implications for expected land-use patterns?The proposal is organized in four work packages. The first serves to identify the legal framework conditions, detect current sustainable economy trade-offs and already employed solutions as well as to collect data on Swiss agglomerations. Based on this data, case study regions (agglomerations) will be selected for in-depth analyses in the subsequent work packages 2 and 3. Specifically, we will analyse the political feasibility of proposed policy mixes based on the identification of actor coalitions, networks and preferences regarding policy instruments in the selected case study agglomerations (WP 2). Based on this knowledge about the most feasible policy mix and additional knowledge about actor characteristics, we will simulate the land use outcomes applying agent-based modelling techniques. These models will produce maps of land use outcomes for our case study regions (WP 3). In the final work package, the underlying integrative policy mixes (including e.g. market-based instruments as well as planning measures) and the spatially explicit representations of their outcomes will be discussed and reflected on together with stakeholders and decision-makers in multiple workshops in the case study regions as well as in a final workshop including national and international actors. In sum, we aim to show which (simulated) policy mixes increase or decrease which sustainable economy trade-offs compared to the status quo and search for an optimal policy mix that minimizes all trade-offs.ATREE is organized as an inter-disciplinary project run by a team of researchers from WSL, HAFL and ETHZ that cover differing competences, ranging from political science to environmental economics. Moreover, we have identified research partners and collaborators from the public administration and other research institutes in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, in order to gain practice-relevance as well as insight from practices in neighbouring countries. Our target audiences are the scientific community and practitioners at different administrative levels: the Swiss Federal Administration, the administrations of the cantons and the municipalities.