Partnership



University of Milan (UMIL)

Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Via Giovanni Celoria, 2, 20133 Milan MI, Italy
disaa.unimi.it/it

Background and expertise:

  • Forest management and planning
  • Assessment of forest ecosystem services
  • Forest ecosystem modelling
  • Forest mitigation and adaptation

Main role in the project:

  • Project coordinator
  • WP1 leader
  • WP6 leader

Specific contribution(s):

  • Coordination and management of project activities, including monitoring, communication and dissemination
  • Integration of the screening of DPSIR indicators from CSA in Italy
  • Communication with local stakeholders in CSA in Italy
  • Collection, elaboration and sharing of data and information from CSA in Italy
  • Running the modelling tool (iLand) for some CSAs, including the elaboration of results
  • Contribution to the definition of sustainable operating spaces
  • Contribution to drawing response policy options

Members:


University of Freiburg (UFR)

Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
uni-freiburg.de

Background and expertise:

  • Forest economics
  • Forest management planning
  • Valuation of ecosystem services
  • Risk assessment and modelling
  • Economic-ecological modelling

Main role in the project:

Specific contribution(s):

  • Forest ecosystem and resource modelling and outcomes
  • Running the modelling tool (iLand) for some CSAs, including the elaboration of results
  • Economic dimension of sustainability
  • Communication with stakeholders in CSA in Germany
  • Collection, evaluation and sharing of data in Germany with other partners

Members:

Aaron Westhauser

University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR)

Department of Psychology and Sociology
C. de Violante de Hungría, 23, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
www.unizar.es

Background and expertise:

  • Social dimensions of forest bioeconomy
  • Social innovation strategies
  • Sustainable development
  • Social sustainability and justice

Main role in the project:

Specific contribution(s):

  • Developing participatory methodology for knowledge co-production and exchange
  • Coordinating data collection for co-creating, discussing, and evaluating storylines and narrative scenarios with stakeholders
    (experts and local people)
  • Coordinating qualitative and quantitative analysis of narrative scenarios
  • CSA selection, collection and data validation from CSA in Spain

Members:


Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)

Forestry and Renewable Energy Section
Elizabeth Stephansens vei, Sørås, Brønnerud, Ås, Akershus, 1433, Norway
www.nmbu.no

Background and expertise:

  • Forest management and planning
  • Forecasting and optimisation
  • Land use conflicts.

Main role in the project:

Specific contribution(s):

  • Methodological development to assess forest sustainability and quantitative comparison of future forest scenarios
  • Ecological assessment of forest sustainability
  • Data collection, stakeholder engagement and collaboration from CSA in Norway
  • Contribution to drawing response policy options

Members:


Transilvania University of Brașov (UNITBV)

Department of Silviculture
Șirul Ludwig van Beethoven 1, Brașov 500123, Romania
www.unitbv.ro

Background and expertise:

  • Forest ecosystem services, including payments for forest ecosystem services (PES)
  • Remote sensing applications
  • Tree ring science
  • Adaptation and resilience of mountain forests

Main role in the project:

Specific contribution(s):

  • Communication with local stakeholders in CSA in Romania
  • Collection, validation and sharing of data and information from CSA in Romania
  • Contribution to model parameterisation and analysis of results

Members:

Andrei Popa
Mihai Hapa
Emanuel Besliu