Forest ecosystem services and governance mechanisms

The data describes how 11 national forest policy documents in the EU discuss 6 different governance mechanisms related to forests. The governance mechanisms on the map are: markets, incentives by government, disruption, regulation ((other) laws, statutes), collaborative (networks, cooperatives) and information (guidelines, information technology and platforms, extension and advice).

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).” Lisään vastaavan copyright merkinnän myös karttapalvelun infosivulle.