Successful integration of biodiversity conservation with sustainable forest use under global changes is a major challenge for the society. National climate change mitigation plans and strategies (e.g. Bioeconmy Strategy) will affect carbon sequestration processes and may increase the use of wood for different products and renewable energy. These aims need to be integrated and balanced with policies for biodiversity conservation, and consequences for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and other environmental effects studied. The project aims at developing (i) integrated models/tools to determine spatially optimized land-use in forest ecosystems, (ii) voluntary monetary compensation mechanisms for forest owners and (iii) informing stakeholders on adaptation options and sustainable policies and their ecological and economic boundary conditions. The project is carried out by a multidisciplinary team from the Finnish Environment Institute, and Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland.

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2023