Forest ecosystem services innovations

Theme: Cultural, Society and Demography

The data describes how 11 national forest policy documents in the EU discuss 5 different innovation types related to forests. The innovation types on the map are: product innovation, process innovation and technology improvements, social process and networking innovation, service innovation and market rearrangement.

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).”

Data processing steps: processing

Description: The data has been gathered by European researchers analysing 11 different national forest policy documents and feeding their findings on different innovation types related to forest ecosystem services into a database survey which constructed the excel format dataset used for the maps. The innovations have been graded from not mentioned to high mentions of innovations. 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; Innovation; Mentions of innovation; Mentions of innovation in EU-level.

Additional information (URL): innoforest.eu