Abstract
Which infrastructures for which forest function? Analyzing multifunctionality through the social-ecological system framework
Highlights
Forests provide a large number of provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural functions that stabilize the climate, protect plants and animal species, provide food and shelter to local communities, protect critical human infrastructure such as settlements, roads, and railway lines from gravitational natural hazards, and isolate large amounts of carbon as a result of the recycling of gases (Nasi et al 2002, MEA 2005, Bonan 2008, Gamfeldt et al 2013)
We have highlighted the spillovers that can occur between functions through the concept of infrastructures
We demonstrated that the resulting complementary framework application can be used to examine problems associated with shared and multifunctional infrastructures for multiple forest functions
Summary
Forests provide a large number of provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural functions that stabilize the climate, protect plants and animal species, provide food and shelter to local communities, protect critical human infrastructure such as settlements, roads, and railway lines from gravitational natural hazards, and isolate large amounts of carbon as a result of the recycling of gases (Nasi et al 2002, MEA 2005, Bonan 2008, Gamfeldt et al 2013). For better integration of multifunctional forest management, there is a need to systematically understand the interactions between the social and the ecological systems in the forest In this context, multifunctionality can be embedded in the SES framework, in which it can help provide a list of multitiered social and ecological variables that can generally be applied to describe variables in a complex system and across cases. We present a novel perspective on infrastructures that explains how different infrastructures of the SES interact to produce diverse functions for the forest To this end, we use the descriptive power of Ostrom’s SES framework (Ostrom 2009, McGinnis and Ostrom 2014) to identify general variables of the system and their interactions without referring to their consequences on collective action theory; we apply it to a case study of a mountain forest (QuatreMontagnes forest, Vercors region, France). Some parts of the Quatre-Montagnes forest are underexploited (Puech 2009), which leads to the aging of these stands and, eventually, to the degradation of the wood production aspect
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