The last large intact forests in Northwest Russia: Protection and sustainable use: including a workshop on targets and tools for the maintenance of ecological and socio-cultural values of large intact forest areas in Russia: Information, Program and Abstracts

Abstract

New challenges are facing our forest and woodland landscapes. An increasing number of goods and services should be provided more efficiently in the same forest. At the same time decisions about what actually takes place locally is determined more and more at transnational and even global levels. In addition, energy supply and global climate change scenarios suggest that increased levels of uncertainty need to be handled. Such multilevel links means that use of forests and woodland imply extensive export of both positive and negative economic, ecological and socio-cultural footprints at different scales, usually without being aware of them.