Analysis and relationships between Forest ecosystem Services supply and demand, and Innovative mechanisms across Europe

This deliverable summarizesthe results from the analysis relating forest ecosystem services and innovative mechanism across Europe, undertaken in task 1.2, in WP1. This analysis was carried outthrough two separated Pan-European surveys, which make up the core of this document. In the first survey, forest owners and managers across Europe were asked to state currentsupply and demand of forest ecosystem services in their forests, and whether or not there has been any type innovation in their forest in the last decades. The results provide a detailedoverview of the interplay between supply, demand and innovation in European forest for eleven forest ecosystem services, covering provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. In the second Pan-European survey, an especial emphasis was given to cultural ecosystem services. In particular, forest owners and managers across Europe were asked about current and potential supply of cultural ecosystem services in European forests, and about which are the mechanism that could be implementedto further promote them. This analysis identifies the different pathways and strategies to encouragea multifunctional use of the forest depending on the context-related characteristics of the social-ecological system in which the forest is located.