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A solid and holistic understanding of the different roles forests play is necessary to be able to design policies that help to maximize synergies and minimize trade-offs between the different forest uses. This publication compiles key research findings in the form of 12 questions on forests in the EU and the benefits they provide to society. It aims to inform a wider range of people who are not forest experts, but who are interested in information on some of the many contributions forests make to achieving EU policy goals. Harnessing its ongoing monitoring of recent EU policy processes, EFI selected the following areas in particular: bioeconomy, civil protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, forestry, impact on global forests, nature conservation, public health and regional development.
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More information
Recommended citation: Mauser, H (ed). 2021. Key questions on forests in the EU. Knowledge to Action 4, European Forest Institute.
Number of pages: 62
ISBN 978-952-7426-05-0 (print)
ISBN 978-952-7426-06-7 (pdf)
Please note, graphic on page 6 was updated on 25.03.2021
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Rach Colling
Clive Davies
David Ellison
Lauri Hetemäki
Pekka Leskinen
Marko Lovrić
Harald Mauser
Dominik Mühlberger
Barbara Öllerer
Elisabeth Pötzelsberger
Lea Ranacher
Liisa Tyrväinen
Gerhard Weiss
Camilla Widmark
Ivana Zivojinovic
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