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Preferences for proactive and reactive climate-adaptive forest management and the role of public financial support

Braunschweiger, Dominik; Ohmura, Tamaki; Schweier, Janine; Olschewski, Roland; Schulz, Tobias (2024). Preferences for proactive and reactive climate-adaptive forest management and the role of public financial support. Forest Policy and Economics, 169:103348.

Abstract

The impacts of climate change threaten forest ecosystems and the services they provide. Policies and measures to make forests more resilient to climate-change-induced disturbances are needed, but the success of such efforts depends on their acceptance among forest owners and managers. Based on a discrete choice experiment survey among Swiss forest owners and managers in the canton of Bern, we analysed whether respondents prefer (i) proactive over reactive interventions, (ii) advanced/natural regeneration over plantings, (iii) native over non-native tree species, and (iv) the role governmental payment schemes play in these decisions. About one-third of the respondents belong to the class of forest managers and owners that are open to a transition strategy including proactive interventions and non-native tree species. Two-thirds of the forest owners and managers prefer a reactive restoration approach after disturbances and management that relies on native tree species. The amount of financial support plays a decisive role in the willingness of most respondents to accept adaptation measures. These results confirm the feasibility of diversifying the policy support toolbox to enable more proactive climate-adaptive forest management.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Dewey Decimal Classification:590 Animals (Zoology)
570 Life sciences; biology
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > Forestry
Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences & Humanities > Economics and Econometrics
Physical Sciences > Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Language:English
Date:1 December 2024
Deposited On:15 Nov 2024 11:46
Last Modified:31 Jan 2025 02:39
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1389-9341
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103348
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