Research protocol to derive recreational scores for european forest management alternatives

Projet PCRD, EFORWOOD, Sustainability impact assessment of the forestry-wood chain; Instrument: IPThematic Priority: 6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems; This deliverable presents the research protocol for the Delphi survey that is being used to derive scoresto assess the recreational value of 240 forest stand types in four European regions: upland areas ofGreat Britain, Boreal areas of the Nordic Region, Central Europe, and Mediterranean areas of Iberia.The scores will contribute to a European synthesis of public perceptions of the recreational value offorests (EFORWOOD D2.3.3 and D2.3.6). They will also be combined with outputs from theEuropean forest resource projection model, „EFISCEN‟, to estimate current and future recreationalvalues under different scenarios (EFORWOOD D2.3.7). A concluding section outlines the timing ofthe survey and final steps for the WP2.3 research agenda. The questionnaire used for the Great Britainsurvey is included as an appendix.