Abstract
SYLVA - Sustainable forest Yielding: Linking societal and ecological Valuations in the Age of nature financialization seeks to contribute to filling a persistent gap in research on understanding the relationship between society and forest ecosystems in the new carbon-markets era. The goal is to investigate how the introduction of CO2 policies are changing the relationship between society and forests. Due to climate change and related international agreements to reduce its impact, emission control has become a key issue that generated quotas, trading markets, and normative devices to manage them. The goal is to understand what actors and processes have been relevant in the last 20 years for the Italian rural context, a crucial period during which wilderness narratives, policies and markets related to ecosystems and ecological transition have changed significantly. Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) in early 2000 introduced Payment for ecosystem services (PES), the relationship with forests and the way italian societies value them is rapidly changing. Italian forests are growing rapidly, although this does not always represent a benefit in the short and middle terms. The most visible consequences are the abandonment of coppice, the worsening quality of wild reforestation, the redirection of global value chains, the outsourcing of some production to poor markets, the loss of biodiversity, the increase of forest colonialism etc. In addition to this the rural marginal areas that have undergone processes of depletion, aging, and population decline are frequently the ones affected by re-wilding processes. Given so, the increase in forests seems to be the result of negative and involutional socio-economic processes of rural society, which remain on the margins of agribusiness supply chains increasingly oriented to intensive production. An innovative approach to forest management is useful the improvement of local development of the territories left behind (in the framework of European Cohesion), and for the contribution that rural mountain contexts provide to the territories in terms of water quality, reduction of fire risk, the resilience of slopes affected by hydro-geological instability, etc., which in an era of tropicalization and climatic upheaval are consolidating as constituent elements of risk and uncertainty in large areas of Europe Strengthening efforts to manage forests sustainably is also central for UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Forests, forestry and forest-based solutions, as reflected in the European Green Deal and the new EU Forest Strategy, are called to play an unprecedented role in catalyzing the green the green transformation that Italy and Europe needs. The project aims to contribute to scientific advancements on the topic with the goal of framing the relationship with forest resources within a scheme that is ecologically innovative but rooted in Italian coevolutionary rural tradition.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Davide Olori
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell'Economia
Coordinatore:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Costo totale di progetto: Euro (EUR) 249.400,00
Contributo totale di progetto: Euro (EUR) 249.400,00
Costo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 249.400,00
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 249.400,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 36
Data di inizio
15/05/2025
Data di fine:
14/05/2028
