Future-oriented and Integrated Management of Forest

Multifunctional forestry and sustainable forest management in Europe are supported through policy and management approaches. The Seventh Framework Program of the EU funded the collaborative research project INTEGRAL “Future-oriented and integrated management of European forest landscapes” aims to better balance demands for a multitude of forest ecosystem goods and services (timber, biodiversity, water, soil, recreation). The project objectives were to analyze trade-offs between competing forest land uses and to provide solutions for effective forest management strategies, decision support tools and coherent policy instruments at the landscape level in ten countries. A synthesis was provided at EU level. UNIQUE coordinated the trans- and interdisciplinary research and dissemination tasks, and supported natural and social scientists and stakeholders.