In this line, the tie with and co-responsibility for forest property is developed, involving county council offices, management bodies for natural spaces, and local entities and companies, weaving synergies among them and with the territory as the main focus.

The territory is conceived as an agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic, promoting the diversity of the landscape as an integrating and agglutinative dimension of the set of values of the rural environment, also including the most intangible of them, such as the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual ones.

Thanks to the launch of the different tools to evaluate forests, and especially the most mature ones, resources from the secondary and tertiary sectors are channelled to the primary sector, thereby notably strengthening the extremely necessary investment in forest improvement, fire prevention and forest resilience.

The Chair will focus especially on the need to find a balance and harmony among the different uses and resources that make up the agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic. It aims to find the best methodology for managing the forest network, in accordance with the most suitable vocation of each sector, while maximising resilience to the climate crisis, both for the improvement of forest productivity and fire prevention and for the preservation of biodiversity. To this end, debate and technical comparison tables will be created

All this harmonisation of the uses of forest spaces, together with the valuation and projection of its intangible assets, must help to reinforce the configuration of a future ecosystem credit, which must integrate the different services provided from the three branches we will now introduce.

Highlight the ecosystem service of forests, which makes the complexity of all forms of life that depend on it possible. Enhance the dimension of the forest as a habitat and a diverse landscape that is in permanent evolution, and its significance as a pantry and shelter for an extraordinary terrestrial biodiversity. Highlight the value of forests as a natural laboratory supplying an infinity of organic substances and processes with very interesting technological applications.

First, as a tool of involvement addressed to companies, the Sèlvans NGO has introduced the initiative “Compensanatura”, which is a proposal to help preserve a forest space of maximum ecological value, of a land area at least equivalent in size to that stamped by the respective industrial plants, warehouses, offices, shops, etc. The initiative is based on the first official impact indicator of an organisation regarding biodiversity, “land use” expressed in “square^meters of stamped ground”, in accordance with EMAS, the EC environmental management and auditing system.

The Chair will be committed to updating information about the vital importance of forests with more mature structures in preserving the biodiversity of both the flora and the fauna. In this line, the application of the ecosystem indicator named the “Potential Biodiversity Index” (IBP) will be improved, as a tool for evaluating the biological diversity to be applied, especially in the most mature forests and in those with the highest natural value.

This branch is focused on the current challenges and new opportunities that relate forests with the climatic emergency.

Regarding the area of forest planning, work is being carried out on incorporating criteria to attain the maximum resilience of forests through forest organisation tools, both in forest organisation projects in public forests and in technical forest management and improvement plans in privately owned forests. In parallel, the Chair will attempt to intervene in the most directly related sectorial and strategic plans.

As a complement to these actions, the development of demonstrative projects for the comprehensive improvement of the resilience of the agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic of the estate is promoted, via custody agreements, thanks to the reinvestment of payments for environmental services (PSA) to forest property as compensation for wood-cutting rights in the most suitable sectors. The reinvestment is allocated to improving the productivity of the estate, mainly to restore open spaces, and thereby preventing forest fires, to optimise tree structures in excessively dense masses, apply phytosanitary measures, and restore elements of historical-architectural heritage. 

One of the priority lines of action of this branch is the foundation and progressive establishment of a carbon credit specifically linked to the preservation of a network of forests managed according to their natural dynamics. This credit allows economic resources to be channelled towards forest property in the form of PSA, thereby facilitating funding of the resilience improvement actions described for the agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic.

The Chair will have a leading role in collecting and integrating the knowledge that is constantly being obtained all over the world (through bibliographical emptying, own research and technology transfer) on the subject of the sewer carbon that is produced in forests in its three essential dimensions: the flight, the radicular system and the organic forest ground. There will be a special focus on the least studied forest structures, including the most mature and evolved forests. 

Within this branch, the Chair also wants to delve deeper into the function of forests with the most mature structures as A-grade regulators of the water system, and as spaces that promote general resilience.
 

This branch is focused on the current challenges and new opportunities that relate forests with the climatic emergency.

Regarding the area of forest planning, work is being carried out on incorporating criteria to attain the maximum resilience of forests through forest organisation tools, both in forest organisation projects in public forests and in technical forest management and improvement plans in privately owned forests. In parallel, the Chair will attempt to intervene in the most directly related sectorial and strategic plans.

As a complement to these actions, the development of demonstrative projects for the comprehensive improvement of the resilience of the agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic of the estate is promoted, via custody agreements, thanks to the reinvestment of payments for environmental services (PSA) to forest property as compensation for wood-cutting rights in the most suitable sectors. The reinvestment is allocated to improving the productivity of the estate, mainly to restore open spaces, and thereby preventing forest fires, to optimise tree structures in excessively dense masses, apply phytosanitary measures, and restore elements of historical-architectural heritage. 

One of the priority lines of action of this branch is the foundation and progressive establishment of a carbon credit specifically linked to the preservation of a network of forests managed according to their natural dynamics. This credit allows economic resources to be channelled towards forest property in the form of PSA, thereby facilitating funding of the resilience improvement actions described for the agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic.

The Chair will have a leading role in collecting and integrating the knowledge that is constantly being obtained all over the world (through bibliographical emptying, own research and technology transfer) on the subject of the sewer carbon that is produced in forests in its three essential dimensions: the flight, the radicular system and the organic forest ground. There will be a special focus on the least studied forest structures, including the most mature and evolved forests. 

Within this branch, the Chair also wants to delve deeper into the function of forests with the most mature structures as A-grade regulators of the water system, and as spaces that promote general resilience.