Transnational Forestry Management Strategies in Response to Regional Climate Change Impacts

Programme 2007 - 2013 North West Europe

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

Climate Change reflects itself on the regional level by a changing regional climate and impacts on the environmental. societal and economic worlds. Hand in hand with this will be an inevitable shift in forest site conditions in the next decades with serious implications for sustainable forest management. Hence the project will show regionalized climate change impacts on forest site characteristics. on forest protection functions. on forest yield. biodiversity. water resources and carbon sequestration across North-West Europe; all of this linked to a diverse set of multi-level risk assessments associated with preserving the multitude of forest goods and services. which will be part of the “ForeStClim”-strategies. The development of transnational coordinated forestry management and forest protection and adaptation strategies will be the principal outcome of the project and help secure the future economic stability of forestry in North-West-Europe. a sustainable timber production. an efficient protection of forest ecosystems. as well as the maintenance of the protection. recreation and other functions of forests.

Achievements (EN):

This project evaluated the effects of climate change on forests and forestry across North West Europe, based on case study areas in partner countries. The researchers developed and demonstrated tools and techniques to support the implementation of adaptation strategies. Forest Research worked with 20 other partners from the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Key findings and outputs • Comprehensive modelling of the impact of climate change scenarios on forest ecosystems in North West Europe • Tools, guidelines and methodologies for risk assessments to identify how individual forests are most at risk from climate change (e.g. wildfire, disease, storm damage, groundwater recharge, etc) or threats to goods and services (employment, timber productivity, tourism, etc) • Development of a strategic decision support system for sustainable forestry management, forest protection and water management Implementation of new site survey practices • Demonstration of new strategies at test sites, including the development of a climate change adaptation demonstration forest at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park in Scotland International photography competition “Trees and humans in a changing climate”, displayed at Risley Moss in the UK Project results are available under: http://www.forestclim.eu/index.php?id=79

Website: http://www.nweurope.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

Actions: 1.Setting up a project advisory board, 2.Establishment of regional and local climate change scenarios, 4.Projections of land-use changes on future woodland cover 5. Assessment of effects of regionalized climate change scenarios 6.Development and integration of innovative site survey and forest inventory methods 7.Application of these seminal methods in demonstration sites will enable the partners to generate forest planning criteria and forestry management strategies 8.Forest growth modelling including impacts of climate change and forest site shifts 9.Risk assessment and visualization of forest development 10.Derivation of potential water retention areas. Production of runoff generation and groundwater recharge maps 11.Development of a digital tool for multicriteria analysis for the assessment of ecological and economic consequences of forest strategies 12.Integration of the ForeStClim-results in a Spatial Planning Support System (SPSS) 13.Development of forestry strategies to react to different regional climate change scenarios 14.Processes of transnational coordination to adapt the strategy package will be implemented 15.Development of a digital spatial decision support system (SDSS) 16.Implementation of the forest strategies in forest test and demonstration sites 17.Material collection for a book and a political leaflet concerning forest areas Outputs: 1.climatic change scenarios downscaled to the partner regions, 2.forest site survey methods, 3.Digital forest site maps and water budget maps 4.European forest growth models sensitive to climatic change and forest site shifts, 5.Reports (digital and printed), 6.Standardised digital forest hazard maps, 7.Digital spatial planning support system 8.Digital geographic information 9.Digital tool for multicriteria analysis of ecological and economic consequences of forest strategies under different regional climate change scenarios, 10.Forestry strategy package integrated in a management information system

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Sustainable management of natural resources Climate change and biodiversity

Partners (21)

Lead Partner: Landesforsten Rheinland-Pfalz

Address: FAWF - Hauptstrasse 16, D-67705 Trippstadt, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Forestry Commission

Name: Forestry Commission

Address: Alice Holt Lodge, GU10 4LH Farnham, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Universität Trier

Name: Universität Trier

Address: Universitätsring 15, 54286 Trier, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Office National des Forêts - Direction Territoriale Alsace

Name: Office National des Forêts - Direction Territoriale Alsace

Address: Cité administrative - 14, rue du maréchal Juin, 67084 STRASBOURG, France

Legal status: n/a

Association syndicale libre forestière de Allaire et du Pays de Redon et Vilaine (ASLF)

Name: Association syndicale libre forestière de Allaire et du Pays de Redon et Vilaine (ASLF)

Address: Mairie, 56350 Allaire, France

Legal status: n/a

Centre Permanent d'Initiatives à l'Environnement (CPIE) Val de Vilaine

Name: Centre Permanent d'Initiatives à l'Environnement (CPIE) Val de Vilaine

Address: 10 allée des Cerisiers, 35550 SAINT-JUST, France

Legal status: n/a

Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann

Name: Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann

Address: 41, rue du Brill, 4422 BELVAUX, Luxembourg

Legal status: n/a

Vereniging Nederlands Cultuurlandschap

Name: Vereniging Nederlands Cultuurlandschap

Address: Rijksstraatweg 174, 6573 DG Beek Ubbergen, Netherlands

Legal status: n/a

International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation

Name: International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation

Address: P.O. Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, Netherlands

Legal status: n/a

kontextU Umweltberatung & Kommunikation

Name: kontextU Umweltberatung & Kommunikation

Address: Lise-Meitner-Str. 12, D-79100 Freiburg, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Ville de Allaire

Name: Ville de Allaire

Address: Mairie, 56350 ALLAIRE, France

Legal status: n/a

Groupement d'Intérêt Public (G.I.P.) du Pays de Redon et Vilaine

Name: Groupement d'Intérêt Public (G.I.P.) du Pays de Redon et Vilaine

Address: 19, rue Saint-Michel BP 10602, F 35606 REDON cedex, France

Legal status: n/a

Syndicat Intercommunal a Vocation Unique (SIVU) du Vauvert

Name: Syndicat Intercommunal a Vocation Unique (SIVU) du Vauvert

Address: Mairie, 35330 COMBLESSAC, France

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Ville de Beignon

Name: Ville de Beignon

Address: Mairie, 56350 BEIGNON, France

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Lehrstuhl für Waldwachstumskunde, Technische Universität München

Name: Lehrstuhl für Waldwachstumskunde, Technische Universität München

Address: Am Hochanger 13, 85354 Freising, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Université Louis Pasteur - SERTIT

Name: Université Louis Pasteur - SERTIT

Address: 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex, France

Legal status: n/a

Autorità portuale di Genova

Name: Autorità portuale di Genova

Address: College Road, LL57 2DG Bangor, United Kingdom

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University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Name: University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Address: Kensington Terrace 6, NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Mountain Environments Ltd

Name: Mountain Environments Ltd

Address: Stirling Road, FK17 8LE Callander, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Natural Environment Research Council - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Name: Natural Environment Research Council - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Address: Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8BB Wallingford, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

The Mersey Forest

Name: The Mersey Forest

Address: Risley Moss, WA3 4HY Warrington, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Transnational Forestry Management Strategies in Response to Regional Climate Change Impacts

Project acronym: ForeStClim

Project start date: 2008-01-01

Project end date: 2013-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 11 608 441.67

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 5 685 552.33

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2007 - 2013 North West Europe

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2015-12-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

114 / 114 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 104 / 1 104 (100%)

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