Enhancing national and international understanding regarding ecological compensation

The multidisciplinary research conducted in BOOST includes, among others, ecological accounting, political science and legal analysis. Research results will be shared with the scientific community and with any other interested parties in real time: this includes both peer-reviewed articles and Finnish research reports. In addition, the scientific principles for biodiversity offsetting will be published as a book available internationally.

The social and political science analysis seeks to identify which socio-cultural factors should be considered when developing biodiversity offsetting. This includes analyzing both national and international policy, and conducting a citizen surveys regarding nature conservation policy. These in turn provide data on the social and societal accetance of the compensation measures. The results will be published as peer-reviewed articles and as policy briefs. They will also be communicated via discussion forums between researchers and policy makers.