are dealing with ecosystem services assessments,” continues Frank.
“They
are applying a methodology that allows one to assess different ecosystem services in a comparable way; essentially it
between production of
collected from all project partners in order to test transferability of the integrated assessment approach.” Although landscape change models and
is a trade-off analysis lignocellulosic
resources and provision of other ecosystem services, and they will be doing this for all our five model regions, which include areas in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Slovenia.”
Participation A mobile phone application (Tienoo) is being developed at
the University of
Helsinki in cooperation with small enterprise Simosol. It allows for the collection and mapping of public opinion on forest management strategies and enhances the visitors’ experience. “When
forest growth and yield models already exist, Frank believes that it is the combination of elements within the RegioPower platform that hold the key to its success. “A lot of the elements we are working with are not particularly radical individually, but the cross-sectorial connections that we can help to create at a regional scale certainly are. By linking land management with regional planning questions, and providing moderation between land-based production and industrial demands, we can help to strengthen the competitiveness of the forest-based sector and promote the utilisation of lignocellulosic resources as raw material.”
AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: RegioPower: A regional IT-based platform for bringing resource needs and land- based resource production together.
Project Objective: The overall aim is to develop the prototype of an innovative software platform for moderating between lignocellulosic resources demands from industry (timber for wood-products & bio-energy, other bio- energy crops from agriculture), land-based production of lignocellulosic resources, and public demands considering the provision of ecosystem services by regional land-use and land-management.
Project Duration and Timing: 36 months, February 2012 to January 2015
Project Funding: Joint call of ERA-Net Bioenergy and WoodWisdom (FP7)
“In the future, we will focus on additional biomass production from agriculture, as well as looking at different land-use systems such as those used in Africa”
people visit the forest, they will have this application on their phone which will allow them to express their opinions on specific forest management measures in an entertaining way,” says Frank. This tool for participatory planning combines methods from sociology and forest planning, and the Finnish state forestry enterprise Metsähallitus will potentially apply it for triggering their forest management activities.
Making the platform work In the end, these separate parts will be brought together to work as a single entity - the RegioPower platform - and Frank is pleased with the progress that has been made so far. “The prototypes of the biomass module and mobile phone application are now being tested,” she says, “and the forestry planning models are already being used to help develop land management strategies in Sweden.” “The framework for simulating
alternative land management strategies and effects on ecosystem services is also ready for application, and data for the ecosystem services evaluation has been
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Planning for the future GISCAME, a piece of software used to evaluate land use trends that has been continually developed over the last seven years, is now capable of showing information on lignocellulosic resources as a result of RegioPower. “In the future, we will focus on additional biomass production from agriculture, as well as looking at different land-use systems such as those used in Africa,” says Frank. The phone application Tienoo is
supposed to be included into the forest planning processes of Metsähallitus, Finland’s state forestry organisation, and
it is hoped participatory that the use geographic of a information
system will allow for a more seamless integration of social issues with ecological and technical forestry issues. “This is a perfect example of what has motivated us throughout
this project,”
says Frank. “We aim to develop resource management strategies that are beneficial for many sectors and even the public, not just for the economic benefit of a few.”
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Project Partners: • ZEF (Center for Development Research), University of Bonn (Germany)
www.zef.de
• SLU (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden)
www.slu.se
• SFI (Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia)
www.gozdis.si
• University of Helsinki (Finland) www.
helsinki.fi/university
• Simosol (Finland)
www.simosol.fi • HCN (High Competence Network e.V., Germany)
www.hcn-group.de
MAIN CONTACT
PD Dr. Christine Fürst Since January 2012, PD Dr. Christine Fürst has been Senior Researcher at ZEF C, University of Bonn. Before that she was a researcher at TU Dresden, Institute for Soil Science and Site Ecology. She is coordinator of the European Land-use Institute and Head of European Nodal Office of Global Land Project on Integrated Land Management, Planning and Policy.
Contact: Tel: +49 228 734922 Email:
cfuerst@uni-bonn.de Web:
www.eli-web.com/RegioPower
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