Case Studies

Across Europe there is a huge variation in forest types, landscapes in which forests are situated, degree of urbanisation, importance of forest goods and services, and socioeconomic context. Consequently, there are significant variations in the demand as well as the value of forest externalities, their cost of provision and options for their marketing. Therefore NEWFOREX will base its work on a set of carefully chosen European case studies representing a range of these variations, and in addition a developing country case study.

The case study regions serve four main purposes:

1. as working labs where we will collect among the relevant populations (e.g. general public, forest owners, stakeholders, etc.) the needed empirical data on forest externalities values, costs of provision, and assess market-based methods;
2. provide data and models for forest production and uses to assess, for example the role of trans-boundary effects for costs;
3. as test and demonstration labs for the application of the developed methods for valuation of forest externalities and assessment of costs of provision, and evaluation of the potential for implementing market-based methods for forest externalities provision;
4. as an excellent basis for communicating general guidelines and recommendations to the main stakeholder groups.