Forest management and stakeholder engagement

Working closely with forest owners, forest policy makers and stakeholder from the forest industry, nature protection, recreation and more, the CLIMB-FOREST team aims to identify the most optimal forest management options for the coming decades.

Bringing together forest stakeholders and the research sector, we will first identify forest management options that generate forests that are resilient to climate change, and provide a full range of ecosystem services.

A group of 25 stakeholders accompany the CLIMB-FOREST team on field visits in Spain, France, Poland, Czechia and Norway. During the field visits we’ll discuss forest management options and each category of stakeholders will set their recommended management for selected sites. In addition to more traditional stakeholder engagement and interaction, we will cooperate with other work packages on modelling and visualization of forecasts of the development of the selected forest sites based on the stakeholder recommendations.

Stakeholders will help us to develop long-term pathways for delivering more resilient forests in the future and finally we’ll use our experiences to produce a template which can be used for engaging stakeholders on different forest management options across Europe. These various new forest management options will, through CLIMB-FOREST, be incorporated in the policy-making in Europe for resilient, and climate-smart forestry in Europe.