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PESFOR-W: Improving the design and environmental effectiveness of woodlands for water Payments for Ecosystem Services

2017; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 3; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3897/rio.3.e13828

ISSN

2367-7163

Autores

Gregory Valatin, Jens Abildtrup, Cristian Accastello, Abdel Rahman Al-Tawaha, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Silvia Atanasova, Mersudin Avdibegović, Nikolina Baksic, Kazimierz Banasik, José Barquín, Johan Barstad, Viera Baštáková, Dženan Bećirović, Santiago Beguerı́a, Uldis Bethers, Mária Bihuňová, Boško Blagojević, Matthias Bösch, Thomas Bournaris, Yiying Cao, Cláudia Carvalho‐Santos, Alexander Chikalanov, Maria Cunha Sá, Krzysztof Czyżyk, Hamed Daly, Helen Davies, Antonio D. del Campo, R.S. de Groot, Rik De Vreese, Tomáš Dostál, Abdelmohssin El Mokaddem, Leena Finér, Rhys Evans, Julien Fiquepron, Magdalena Frąc, Martyn N. Futter, Serge Garcia, Paola Gatto, Davide Geneletti, Veronika Gežík, Carlo Giupponi, María González-Sanchis, Fernando Gordillo, Elena Górriz‐Mifsud, Yulia Grigorova, Katrin Heinsoo, Eduard Hochbichler, Lars Högbom, Mike Image, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Anže Japelj, Sreten Jelić, Jürgen Junk, Csaba Juhasz, Ifigenia Kagalou, Mary Kelly‐Quinn, Anna Klamerus‐Iwan, Tatiana Kluvánková, Roland Koeck, Iskra Konovska, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Janez Krč, Vasyl Lavnyy, Alessandro Leonardi, Zane Lībieté, Declan Little, Antonio Lo Porto, Athanasios Loukas, Mariyana Lyubenova, Bruno Marić, Javier Martínez‐López, Inazio Martinez, Alexandru Maxim, Marek Metslaid, Alison Melvin, Costică Mihai, Ivan Minčev, Žymantas Morkvėnas, Radovan Nevenić, Tom Nisbet, D. ÓhUallacháin, Roland Olschewski, Johan Östberg, Karolina Oszust, Paola Ovando, Alessandro Paletto, Taras Parpan, Davide Pettenella, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, Špela Planinšek, Radka Podlipná, Stjepan Posavec, Kristina Potočki, Irina Prokofieva, Paula Quinteiro, László Radócz, Ratko Ristić, Nicolas Robert, Benedetto Rugani, Jelena Sabanovic, Zuzana Sarvašová, Snezana Savoska, Patrick Schleppi, Gebhard Schueler, Margaret A. Shannon, M. Silgram, Bojan Srdjević, Gavril Ștefan, Aleksandar Stijović, Niels Strange, Sirkka Tattari, Aco Teofilovski, Mette Termansen, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Attila Tóth, Ivonne Trebs, Novica Tmušić, Lampros Vasiliades, Suzanne Elizabeth Vedel, K. Ventrubová, Dijana Vuletić, Georg Winkel, Richard Yao, Sarah Young, Rasoul Yousefpour, Lyudmyla Zahvoyska, Daowei Zhang, Jianhua Zhou, Eva Žižková,

Tópico(s)

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Resumo

The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure restoration of Europe’s water bodies to “good ecological status” by 2027. Many Member States will struggle to meet this target, with around half of EU river catchments currently reporting below standard water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture represents a major pressure, affecting over 90% of river basins. Accumulating evidence shows that recent improvements to agricultural practices are benefiting water quality but in many cases will be insufficient to achieve WFD objectives. There is growing support for land use change to help bridge the gap, with a particular focus on targeted tree planting to intercept and reduce the delivery of diffuse pollutants to water. This form of integrated catchment management offers multiple benefits to society but a significant cost to landowners and managers. New economic instruments, in combination with spatial targeting, need to be developed to ensure cost effective solutions – including tree planting for water benefits - are realised. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are flexible, incentive-based mechanisms that could play an important role in promoting land use change to deliver water quality targets. The PESFOR-W COST Action will consolidate learning from existing woodlands for water PES schemes in Europe and help standardize approaches to evaluating the environmental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of woodland measures. It will also create a European network through which PES schemes can be facilitated, extended and improved, for example by incorporating other ecosystem services linking with aims of the wider forests-carbon policy nexus.

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