Understanding dynamics of forest ecosystem services governance: A socio-ecological-technical-analytical framework

  • Little is known about the emergence and development of novel governance approaches for forest ecosystem services provision, what drives them, and how they can be fostered. Existing frameworks often deal with single aspects of resource management and thus fail to assess processes, multi-level influences, and interacting dimensions and factors in a system-based understanding. In this article, we introduce the conceptual foundation and an empirical application of an adapted Social-Ecological System framework with additional elements that builds on the idea of complex and interlinked social-ecological-technical-forestry-innovation systems that allows for the identification of key factors for revealing forest ecosystem services dynamics to understand the emergence and development of such governance innovations. The development and testing of the framework was based on six case studies for knowledge co-creation. To showcase its application, two governance innovations were examined: a voluntary carbon market payment scheme in Germany and aLittle is known about the emergence and development of novel governance approaches for forest ecosystem services provision, what drives them, and how they can be fostered. Existing frameworks often deal with single aspects of resource management and thus fail to assess processes, multi-level influences, and interacting dimensions and factors in a system-based understanding. In this article, we introduce the conceptual foundation and an empirical application of an adapted Social-Ecological System framework with additional elements that builds on the idea of complex and interlinked social-ecological-technical-forestry-innovation systems that allows for the identification of key factors for revealing forest ecosystem services dynamics to understand the emergence and development of such governance innovations. The development and testing of the framework was based on six case studies for knowledge co-creation. To showcase its application, two governance innovations were examined: a voluntary carbon market payment scheme in Germany and a network approach for forest-pasture management in Italy. The application of the framework reveals required adaptations to improve innovation by systematically unpacking the system dimensions and identifying fostering and hindering factors and their interdependencies. We highlight the output of a sound system-based information basis that allows for purposeful innovation conditioning by policy makers, practitioners, and other related actors.show moreshow less

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Author:Stefan SorgeORCiD, Carsten MannORCiDGND, Christian Schleyer, Lasse Loft, Martin Spacek, Mónica Hernández-Morcillo, Tatiana Kluvankova
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-4771
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101427
ISSN:2212-0416
Parent Title (English):Ecosystem Services
Publisher:Elsevier
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2022
Date of first Publication:2022/04/21
Publishing Institution:Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde
Release Date:2023/05/10
Tag:Social-ecological systems; Governance innovations; Socio-ecological-technical forestry systems; Forest management; Environmental governance; Compensation schemes; Rural development
Issue:55
Article Number:101427
Institutions / Departments:Fachbereich Wald und Umwelt
open_access (DINI-Set):open_access
University Bibliography:University Bibliography
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Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
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