Forest management responsibility survey of forest land owners and managers

The effective biodiversity goal achievement presupposes cross-sectoral policy coherence and implementation across EU, national and local levels. The goal implementation also depends on supportive behavioural responses by forest owners and managers who have to respond to multiple policy and socio-economic drivers forcing them to make trade-offs under uncertainty. This research is a continuation of previous research which suggests that cross-sectoral goal conflicts and failures to understand behavioural responses constitute major barriers to achieving desired forest biodiversity outcomes. The results of these survey for Bulgaria Case studies made it possible to explore behavioural change required for achieving conservation and biodiversity goals and establish management practices and attitudes in the field of biodiversity assessing synergies and trade-offs between policies, targets and benefits at the biodiversity-forest-climate-water nexus.