Session: Social and economic goals of integrative management of ecosystem services
(organized jointly by Unit 6.11.00 and the Forest Economists' Club)
Session Organizers:
Ms. Paula Horne
Finnish Forest Research Institute
Unioninkatu 40 A
00170 Helsinki, Finland
email: paula.horne@metla.fi
- chairperson of the Forest Economists' Club, Finland
- coordinator of 6.11.00 – Social and economic aspects of forestry
Dr. Janaki Alavalapati
University of Florida
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
PO Box 110410
Gainesville 32611-0410
Florida, United States
email: janaki@ufl.edu
- deputy chairperson of 6.11.00 – Social and economic aspects of forestry
Brief description of session:
Ecosystem services of forested landscapes are essential for human wellbeing. Such services include both goods and services with direct benefits such as timber and recreation opportunites, as well as environmental services such as carbon sequestration, maintenance of water balance and nutrient cycling. Recent assessments of the status and trends of the world's biodiversity, such as the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, indicate that biodiversity and consequently ecosystem services provided by biodiversity are in decline. Integrative management of ecosystem services seeks to provide a sustainable flow of environmental services while simultaneously serving for human needs. The social and economic goals of the management are set at the local as well as at the regional and national level. Multidisciplinary research is called for identifying the key social and economic issues in management in tropical, temperate and boreal forests.
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