Data for the Dissertation "Designing a Sustainability Assessment approach for the provision of Forest Ecosystem Services"

The dataset contains the data from three of the four articles of the cumulative dissertation "Designing a Sustainability Assessment approach for the provision of Forest Ecosystem Services". It includes: (1) the documentation of two workshop breakout sessions and three protocols of focus group discussions conducted to propose a design for a conflict analysis approach developed within the context of using forest biomass for biofuel in Germany. A scenario methodology was used in order to provoke workshop participants and induce innovative discussions among them; (2) the data basis for the second article, a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed scientific publications on sustainability assessments applied to forests worldwide, consisting of a list of papers included, and the corresponding analysis file; (3) the data from the third study, a policy analysis of the European Green Deal investigating which market-based instruments (MBI) have a tangible connection to ecosystems. It identifies cross-sectoral policies that fall under the definition of MBIs and then focuses in on the state of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Green Deal.