{"id":9005,"date":"2018-08-13T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:19:16","slug":"exploring-land-manager-views-of-payments-for-ecosystem-services-networks-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/exploring-land-manager-views-of-payments-for-ecosystem-services-networks-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring land manager views of payments for ecosystem services, networks and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are pleased to have contributed to a report by the Social and Economic Research Group of Forest Research, working also with the University of Oxford, exploring land owner and manager views about ecosystem services. The work is part of ongoing outcomes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/bws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Woodlands Survey 2017<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is increasing interest in understanding, valuing and supporting the variety of ecosystem services that woodlands can provide. Land owners and managers can play a key role in the delivery of forest ecosystem services through active woodland management, woodland expansion and woodland creation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9006\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/research\/exploring-land-manager-views-payments-ecosystem-services-networks-and-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9006\" class=\"wp-image-9006\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ecosystem-services.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ecosystem-services.png 640w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ecosystem-services-355x914.png 1024w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ecosystem-services.png 1440w,https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ecosystem-services.png 1920w\" alt=\"Exploring land manager views of payments for ecosystem services, networks and learning\" width=\"850\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecosystem services<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Headline results<\/h2>\n<p>Many land managers were not familiar with the term ecosystem services or the concept of payments for ecosystem services. However, they did often recognise that their woodlands could provide a range of benefits to society.<\/p>\n<p>Quantifying forest services and benefits was thought to be particularly difficult in considering the design of any schemes that might provide payment for these services and benefits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/research\/exploring-land-manager-views-payments-ecosystem-services-networks-and-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the Forest Research website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to have contributed to a report by the Social and Economic Research Group of Forest Research, working also with the University of Oxford, exploring land owner and manager views about ecosystem services. The work is part of ongoing outcomes of the British Woodlands Survey 2017. There is increasing interest in understanding, valuing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,154],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ecosystem-services.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}