Forests and Water: Analyzing the Links, Catching the Value and Designing the Governance
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2018) | Viewed by 11051
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest policy and economics; marketing of forest products and services; economic assessment of natural resources; payments for ecosystem services; forest-product supply chains; responsible forest management and corporate social responsibility tools applied to forestry
Interests: forest economics; forest policy; forest certification; forest ecosystem services; markets for forest products/services; corporate social responsibility; governance of natural resources
Interests: social innovation in rural areas; multilevel governance and environmental network governance; forest policy and economics; evaluation methods, tools and indicators; participatory approaches in tourism development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests play a crucial role in the hydrological cycle: they influence the amount of water available and regulate surface and groundwater flows, contribute to the reduction of water-related risks, help preventing desertification and salinization, and supply a high proportion of the world’s accessible fresh water for multiple uses and needs.
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing the link between forest ecosystems, their management and the delivery of water-related services, with a specific focus on their economic and governance dimensions. Research papers will address (1) links between forests, their management and the delivery of water services, (2) economic methodologies for the assessment of the service value, (3) socio-economic benefits from forest-related water services, (4) innovative solutions for internalising forest-related water services, and (5) governance of forest-related water resources and services, including new institutional arrangements, management of conflicts and equity in the distribution of benefits getting from their marketing.
The Special Issue will build on a balanced mix of papers covering multiple topics like evidence of the role of forests in enhancing water services, economics of forest-related water services, assessing and mapping of socio-economic benefits from forest-related water services, innovative market-based mechanisms for marketing forest-related water services, governance of forest-related water services, trade-offs and synergies within different forest-related services, drivers and barriers for the development of successful initiatives in the field of forest-related water services.
Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Prof. Davide Pettenella
Dr. Mauro Masiero
Prof. Laura Secco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental and forest economics;
- payments for ecosystem services;
- governance of forest-related water resources and services;
- socio-economic benefits;
- forest management;
- forests and water quality;
- forests and water-related risks
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