Contribute to COST Targeted Network TN1401: Capacity Building in Forest Policy and Governance in Western Balkan Region - CAPABAL

 

Short Term Scientific Mission: Implementation of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management in countries of former Yugoslavia 

Fancesca Ferranti spent all June 2015 at the Department of Forestry of the University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, where she performed a Short Term Scientific Mission focussed on the analysis of the implementation of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management in countries of former Yugoslavia. The Mission consisted in:

  • carrying out an analysis of the forest sector in the region
  • performing a workshop for researchers of the faculty aimed at training participants to the study of social topics linked to environmental issues
  • interviewing forest stakeholders on the implementation of Criteria and Indicators by means of a questionnaire developed in cooperation with local researchers
  • setting a peer review publication on the results of the Mission which will be drafted in collaboration wityh local researchers 

The main outputs of the Mission are represented by a scientific report which includes the results of the study and a poster presented at the CAPABAL meeting held at the University of Vienna (BOKU) in the days 16-18 September 2015  

Contribute to COST ACTION ES1203 (SENSFOR): Enhancing Resilience Capacity of Sensitive Mountain Forests

 

Short Term Scientific Mission: Environmental change in sensitive mountain forests: integrating scientific and practical knowledge

 

The COST Action is focussed on enhancing the resilience capacity of sensitive mountain forest ecosystems under environmental change. Francesca Ferranti spent the whole month of October 2015 at the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Sciences of the University of Torino, where she organized two events involving stakeholders of the forest sector. 

- The seminar was dedicated to scientific researchers and it aimed at training the audience to the inclusion of social issues in scientific projects focused on environmental problems

-The workshop was dedicated to forest practitioners and consisted in a comparison between scientific and local knowledge on issues related to sensitive mountain forest ecosystems. Participants were involved in consultation and scenario development sessions which allowed collecting abroad range of information through interactive methods.

 

Methods and results of the Short Term Scientific Mission are presented in the final report of the project

 

Contribute to COST Action FP1201 FACESMAP: Forest land Ownership Changes in Europe- Significance for Management and Policy.

 

Short Term Scientific Mission: Analyzing success factors of private forest owners' associations in Catalonia (NE Spain)

The Short Term Scientific Mission was awarded to Francesca Ferranti who spent 10 days in Barcelona at the Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia during November 2015. During the Mission, Francesca compared data on forest owners' associations she collected in the past with data retrieved by local researchers on the same topic, with the goal of drafting  a peer reviewed article. Moreover, during her stay in barcelona Francesca carried out a literature review and qualitative interviews with stakeholders of the forest sector in order to:

1. Identify different types of forest owners' associations present in Catalonia. 

2. Classify forest owners' associations according to their scope, activity and characteristics of associate members

3. Analyze the institutional setting of the different types of forest owners' associations

4. Find out the social, political and economic processes, elements and events which made for the success of the forest owners' associations

 

Nature&Society published a report which includes the results of the project

 

Contribute to COST Action FP1207: Orchestrating forest-related policy analysis in Europe (ORCHESTRA)

 

Short Term Scientific Mission: Improving integration between forest fire, biomass production and rural development policy objectives. A multilevel and polycentric governance study of European, Spanish and Catalan policies

The Short Term Scientific Mission was awarded to Francesca ferranti who spent 2 weeks at the Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia, Solsona office. The Mission was performed between March and April 2016 and consisted in carrying out a literature review of European, Spanish and Catalan policies to verify the extent to which policy objectives of forest fire preventiion and production of biomass for energy were integrated in forest-related policies at different levels. Fianl aim of the project was providing recommendations for increasing such integration in light of rural development principles. During her staying in Catalonia, Francesca performed field visists and interviewed key actors of the Catalan forest sector, in order to get acquianted with the practice of forest fire prevention and biomass production in the region. 

 

Nature&Socety published a report which includes the results of the Mission