Case studies tagged with forests

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

• Develop several scenarios for payments of forest ecosystem services (FES) - health benefits - and empower future management of the park.
• Raise funds, monitor all sport events, and ensure that these are held sustainably. The innovative mechanism (IM) consists of one-time concession permits implemented in the Medvednica Nature Park.
• Raise money for new content and infrastructure to support human health and wellbeing via a second IM consisting of
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This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

• Set up a partnership between the regional park and local poplar plantations to increase the sustainable management of the plantations while increasing funding for restoration of crucial areas within the regional park.
• Bring together farmers into a certification group, facilitating certification and reducing costs, while benefitting the natural environment of the regional park.
• The innovative mechanism (IM) consists of a
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This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

• Explore how managing forests for use as spiritual forests could benefit both the forest and the forest owner.
• Raise awareness of the importance of cultural ecosystem services (CES) and motivate forest owners and managers to supply these services and to manage forests appropriately.
• The innovative mechanism (IM) is market-based, and its idea, concept and implementation come from the forest owner.

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

• Develop a new online platform or smart phone application to improve the commercialization of the permits and the pickers’ experience.
• Expand the type of users and demands: to reach younger customers; to orient pickers to areas specific to their permit category; and to improve visitor security.

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to: 

• Inspire changes to existing public grant schemes for biodiversity protection on privately owned land by demonstrating in practice how a competitive bidding process can improve the coordination of nature conservation efforts, cost-effectiveness, and ownership among landowners.
• Implement a reverse auction where forest owners respond to a fairly open call by offering biodiversity conservation measures that they decide themselves. In the
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This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

• Involve multiple stakeholders in decision-making and share intervention costs and benefits in a fair manner.
• Provide an opportunity to improve relationships between upstream communities and a downstream water company.
• The innovative mechanism (IM) consists in a payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme which obliges water users in Cusco to pay an extra fee on the water bill to improve hydrological services.

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

• Develop mechanisms for multi-purpose forest management, introducing the concept of ecosystem services (ES) and multi-purpose forest use into the current forest renting system which currently only provides leases for a single ES.
• Change management priorities from wood harvesting to multi-purpose forest management.
• Increase the economic efficiency of forest use while maintaining a balance between all ES by introducing a
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