Sustainable management of forest ecosystem resources requires long-term planning approaches. This study presents the comparative analysis of the National Forest Strategies of Germany, Finland, Scotland, and Greece by using different literature resources and official documents. Each country has its own problems related to the forest sector in the form of climate change, biodiversity loss, overexploitation of forest resources, and unchecked human interventions that influences the efficiency of the National Forest Sector. All the four National Forest Strategies have a similar basic content structure consisting of: vision, a set of objectives, areas of action, financing bodies, description of a monitoring and valuation system, and involvement of stakeholders. However, due to different forest problems there are also some dissimilarities in the structure as some National Forest Strategies contains additional contents; for instance, Finnish National Forest Strategy additionally includes the socio-economic impacts of the Finnish National Forest Strategy, Scottish Forest Strategy includes strategic drivers, and Greek National Forest Strategy includes horizontal crosscutting and vertical thematic axis depending on the needs of the Greek forest ecosystem. Implementation of these Strategies requires collaboration from the State government, national agencies, and several other stakeholders using modern digital technologies. National Forest Strategies are coordinated with other National Strategies to achieve common goals such as: biodiversity conservation, forest soil protection, better infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and mitigation etc. Comparative analysis of different National Forest Strategies also shows efforts of different state governments towards their commitment to achieve the goals mentioned in the National Forest Strategies.

Sustainable management of forest ecosystem resources requires long-term planning approaches. This study presents the comparative analysis of the National Forest Strategies of Germany, Finland, Scotland, and Greece by using different literature resources and official documents. Each country has its own problems related to the forest sector in the form of climate change, biodiversity loss, overexploitation of forest resources, and unchecked human interventions that influences the efficiency of the National Forest Sector. All the four National Forest Strategies have a similar basic content structure consisting of: vision, a set of objectives, areas of action, financing bodies, description of a monitoring and valuation system, and involvement of stakeholders. However, due to different forest problems there are also some dissimilarities in the structure as some National Forest Strategies contains additional contents; for instance, Finnish National Forest Strategy additionally includes the socio-economic impacts of the Finnish National Forest Strategy, Scottish Forest Strategy includes strategic drivers, and Greek National Forest Strategy includes horizontal crosscutting and vertical thematic axis depending on the needs of the Greek forest ecosystem. Implementation of these Strategies requires collaboration from the State government, national agencies, and several other stakeholders using modern digital technologies. National Forest Strategies are coordinated with other National Strategies to achieve common goals such as: biodiversity conservation, forest soil protection, better infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and mitigation etc. Comparative analysis of different National Forest Strategies also shows efforts of different state governments towards their commitment to achieve the goals mentioned in the National Forest Strategies.

Strategic planning in the forestry sector: a comparison among different national initiatives in Europe

AMNA, XXX
2021/2022

Abstract

Sustainable management of forest ecosystem resources requires long-term planning approaches. This study presents the comparative analysis of the National Forest Strategies of Germany, Finland, Scotland, and Greece by using different literature resources and official documents. Each country has its own problems related to the forest sector in the form of climate change, biodiversity loss, overexploitation of forest resources, and unchecked human interventions that influences the efficiency of the National Forest Sector. All the four National Forest Strategies have a similar basic content structure consisting of: vision, a set of objectives, areas of action, financing bodies, description of a monitoring and valuation system, and involvement of stakeholders. However, due to different forest problems there are also some dissimilarities in the structure as some National Forest Strategies contains additional contents; for instance, Finnish National Forest Strategy additionally includes the socio-economic impacts of the Finnish National Forest Strategy, Scottish Forest Strategy includes strategic drivers, and Greek National Forest Strategy includes horizontal crosscutting and vertical thematic axis depending on the needs of the Greek forest ecosystem. Implementation of these Strategies requires collaboration from the State government, national agencies, and several other stakeholders using modern digital technologies. National Forest Strategies are coordinated with other National Strategies to achieve common goals such as: biodiversity conservation, forest soil protection, better infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and mitigation etc. Comparative analysis of different National Forest Strategies also shows efforts of different state governments towards their commitment to achieve the goals mentioned in the National Forest Strategies.
2021
Strategic planning in the forestry sector: a comparison among different national initiatives in Europe
Sustainable management of forest ecosystem resources requires long-term planning approaches. This study presents the comparative analysis of the National Forest Strategies of Germany, Finland, Scotland, and Greece by using different literature resources and official documents. Each country has its own problems related to the forest sector in the form of climate change, biodiversity loss, overexploitation of forest resources, and unchecked human interventions that influences the efficiency of the National Forest Sector. All the four National Forest Strategies have a similar basic content structure consisting of: vision, a set of objectives, areas of action, financing bodies, description of a monitoring and valuation system, and involvement of stakeholders. However, due to different forest problems there are also some dissimilarities in the structure as some National Forest Strategies contains additional contents; for instance, Finnish National Forest Strategy additionally includes the socio-economic impacts of the Finnish National Forest Strategy, Scottish Forest Strategy includes strategic drivers, and Greek National Forest Strategy includes horizontal crosscutting and vertical thematic axis depending on the needs of the Greek forest ecosystem. Implementation of these Strategies requires collaboration from the State government, national agencies, and several other stakeholders using modern digital technologies. National Forest Strategies are coordinated with other National Strategies to achieve common goals such as: biodiversity conservation, forest soil protection, better infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and mitigation etc. Comparative analysis of different National Forest Strategies also shows efforts of different state governments towards their commitment to achieve the goals mentioned in the National Forest Strategies.
Strategic Planning
Forest Management
Forest Policy
National Initiatives
Long-term Planning
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