Forest ecosystem services and actors' responsibilities

The data describes how 11 national forest policy documents discuss the responsibilities addressed to different actors in relation to the set of 10 forest ecosystem services analysed from European forest policies. The analysed actors include: public administration, forest and wood using business and industry, forest related service business, associations, NGOs and civil society actors, landowners, recreational users, citizens, educational bodies, research institutes and financiers.

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 responsibilities related to the forest ecosystem services (FES) have been graded for the maps as no mentions of responsibilities (0) to high numbers of mentions of responsibilities of actor in question 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; Actors’ responsibilities; Mentions of actors’ responsibilities; Mentions of actors’ responsibilities in EU-level.

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