Objectives

SIMWOOD's overall goal is to promote collaborative wood mobilisation in the context of multifunctional forest management across European forest regions.

The project focuses on seven general objectives:

• Understand the current and future motivations of forest owners
• Promote forest governance and joint action of stakeholders
• Develop multifunctional forest management adapted to forest types
• Integrate forest ecosystem services while minimizing environmental impacts
• Establish improved adapted forest harvesting techniques
• Demonstrate collaborative regional initiatives and solutions
• Recommend tailor-made instruments to policymakers
• Encourage broad outreach and exploitation in EU regions

SIMWOOD's main output is the ‘SIMWOOD Information System’, a novel, cross-regional, pan-European monitoring and policy support information system with modern communication tools for targeted outreach to forest owners and other stakeholders.

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