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FutureForCoppiceS will use “consolidated“ or “traditional” as well as “new” SFM indicators to evaluate the sustainability of different management approaches for coppice forests.

The use of “traditional” indicators is justified by the need of (a) obtaining data comparable with national/international statistics; (b) demonstrating that SFM criteria and indicators can be a convenient frame also at local level (thus promoting their application and transferability).

The use of “new” indicators is justified by the need to corroborate generic information (e.g. diversity of tree species composition) with more specific/robust information (e.g. diversity of herbaceous forest species, lichens, mushrooms, fungi, forest birds), and by the scale of the project (data will be generated at the site-plot level).
Traditional SFM indicators are customary reported by national statistics, but their application at the level of individual forest districts is much less frequent. In this line, their responsiveness in relation to different management approaches, their applicability and transferability, and their performance against more specific, functionally oriented indicators can better be evaluated at the local level.

 

 

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The LIFE Programme

LIFE logo200pxThe LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value.
LIFE was launched began in 1992 and to date there have been four complete phases of the programme:

  • LIFE I: 1992-1995,
  • LIFE II: 1996-1999,
  • LIFE III: 2000-2006,
  • LIFE+: 2007-2013.

During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3954 projects across the EU, contributing approximately € 3,1 billion to the protection of the environment.

 

LIFE multiannual work programme for 2014-2017

The LIFE multiannual work programme for 2014-2017 has been adopted by a Commission Decision on 19 March 2014 and  sets the framework for the next four years for the management of the new LIFE Programme 2014-2020. It contains an indicative budget, explains the selection methodology for projects and for operating grants and establishes outcome indicators for the two LIFE sub-programmes: for Environment and for Climate Action. The total budget for funding projects during the period covered amounts to €1.1 billion under the sub-programme Environment and €0.36 billion under the sub-programme Climate Action.
 
To learn more about LIFE+ Program and download informative material and forms, to have details concerning other LIFE projects, please visit the website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life

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Short description

FutureForCoppiceS verticaleThe project aims at demonstrating, by real datasets collected from a long-term experimental plots network, how different management approaches have actually favoured or constrained the overall and the different aspects of sustainability of coppice forests.
Given the concurrent, substantial changes of the forest growth environment (e.g. increased concentration of greenhouse gases, rising temperature, reduced precipitation and increased seasonal variability) occurring since the last decades, the results will improve the knowledge basis for SFM in the in view of the forecasted changes in key environmental drivers and pressures.