Ecosystem services in forest strategies

The data describes how 11 national forest policy documents discuss 10 different ecosystem services; wood, bioenergy, edible plants and non-wood products, biodiversity conservation, game, erosion and water protection, climate regulation carbon sequestration and stock, recreation, cultural heritage, resilience (risk control and climate change). The forest ecosystem services (FES) have been graded not mentioned (0) to central objective (4) in the policy document.

Spatial dataset has been created by joining the institutional data of each country as attributes to its administrative boundaries in a GIS-software (ArcGIS). These attributes are: CNTR_ID; Country; Forest ecosystem service type; Weight or importance given to the ecosystem service in the document; Weight in EU-level. The administrative boundaries of the countries are provided by Eurostat (© EuroGeographics).”

Processing

The data has been gathered by European researchers analysing 11 different national forest policy documents and feeding their findings into a database survey which constructed the excel format dataset used for the maps. The forest ecosystem services (FES) have been graded not mentioned (0) to central objective (4) in the policy document. Spatial dataset has been created by joining the institutional data of each country as attributes to its administrative borders in a GIS-software (ArcGIS). These attributes are: CNTR_ID; Country; Forest ecosystem service type; Weight or importance given to the ecosystem service in the document; Weight in EU-level.