An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach
Abstract Many forest resource systems depend heavily on shared and coupled infrastructures in applying their management strategies. Addressing a question of sustainability for relevant contemporary social‐ecological systems (SES) can be tackled by understanding how these shared infrastructures media...
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| author | Mojtaba Houballah Jean‐Denis Mathias Thomas Cordonnier |
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| description | Abstract Many forest resource systems depend heavily on shared and coupled infrastructures in applying their management strategies. Addressing a question of sustainability for relevant contemporary social‐ecological systems (SES) can be tackled by understanding how these shared infrastructures mediate the interaction between human and ecological environment. Shared infrastructures, which are mainly composed of roads (accessibility utilities), highlight the relation between the performance of ecosystem services and the multifunctional use of the forest. However, dilemmas associated with road provision pose some problems when applied in a forest multifunctional management context, because roads potentially diminish or enhance forest functions in a complex way. In this context, maintaining, fostering, and improving multifunctional management where the development of an ecosystem function can affect the performance of others is challenging. We propose to develop a mathematical model based on a recent study that links multifunctional forest management to the multifunctionality of forest roads by using the SES and robustness frameworks. With this model, we analyze the evolution of the forest system and three key forest functions (wood production, tourism, and nature conservation) when impacted by decisions of road provision. We then examine how governance provision strategies can affect the performance of functions and how these strategies can potentially foster forest multifunctionality. This approach allows us to derive conditions of sustainability in which decisions of shared infrastructure provisions can play an important role in the functionalities and performance of the forest. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-10c801977d0f40b8946a33dbf594bf172022-12-22T00:51:09ZengWileyEarth's Future2328-42772021-01-0191n/an/a10.1029/2019EF001369An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling ApproachMojtaba Houballah0Jean‐Denis Mathias1Thomas Cordonnier2Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UR LISC Aubière FranceUniversité Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UR LISC Aubière FranceUniversité Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, UR LESSEM Grenoble FranceAbstract Many forest resource systems depend heavily on shared and coupled infrastructures in applying their management strategies. Addressing a question of sustainability for relevant contemporary social‐ecological systems (SES) can be tackled by understanding how these shared infrastructures mediate the interaction between human and ecological environment. Shared infrastructures, which are mainly composed of roads (accessibility utilities), highlight the relation between the performance of ecosystem services and the multifunctional use of the forest. However, dilemmas associated with road provision pose some problems when applied in a forest multifunctional management context, because roads potentially diminish or enhance forest functions in a complex way. In this context, maintaining, fostering, and improving multifunctional management where the development of an ecosystem function can affect the performance of others is challenging. We propose to develop a mathematical model based on a recent study that links multifunctional forest management to the multifunctionality of forest roads by using the SES and robustness frameworks. With this model, we analyze the evolution of the forest system and three key forest functions (wood production, tourism, and nature conservation) when impacted by decisions of road provision. We then examine how governance provision strategies can affect the performance of functions and how these strategies can potentially foster forest multifunctionality. This approach allows us to derive conditions of sustainability in which decisions of shared infrastructure provisions can play an important role in the functionalities and performance of the forest.https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001369conceptual modelingcoupled infrastructure systemsforestsinfrastructuresmanagementmultifunctionality |
| spellingShingle | Mojtaba Houballah Jean‐Denis Mathias Thomas Cordonnier An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach Earth's Future conceptual modeling coupled infrastructure systems forests infrastructures management multifunctionality |
| title | An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach |
| title_full | An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach |
| title_fullStr | An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach |
| title_short | An Infrastructure Perspective for Enhancing Multi‐functionality of Forests: A Conceptual Modeling Approach |
| title_sort | infrastructure perspective for enhancing multi functionality of forests a conceptual modeling approach |
| topic | conceptual modeling coupled infrastructure systems forests infrastructures management multifunctionality |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001369 |
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