Future Forests
In 2012 ESM participated in the Future Forest research project, a multi-disciplinary research program supported by the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), Umeå University, Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk), and the Swedish Forestry Industry. Forests will always constitute a limited resource, and priorities concerning their use must be made. Hence, Future Forest and ESM are collaborating in this project to contribute to the development of forest governance and management that support a sustainable delivery of forest ecosystem services. ESM is applying the G4M and GLOBIOM models to analyze the consequences of alternative Swedish forest use strategies on the Swedish forest sector’s future position in Europe and globally.
Collaboration between Future Forest and ESM will deepen during 2013, during which the IIASA modeling cluster will be used to explore the international consequences of alternative Swedish forest use strategies. These evaluations will enable qualified judgment of the effect of the economic and also biophysical trade-offs at the national and global levels.
