PROVIDE PROJECT

The project will first perform a mapping and inventory of public goods and the mechanisms producing such goods, allowing to identify 'hotspots' for mechanisms and policy development. Around these 'hotspots', the project will then value different public goods and explore value transferability across several regions and ecosystems. Next, to meet a smart production of public goods, consistent with the current needs of productivity, bioeconomy strategy and rural development, innovative policy tools and mechanisms will be comparatively evaluated. The outcomes of these activities will feed information into a framework and toolbox... The practical results of the project will be: a renewed ("un-packed") conceptualization of the notion of public goods; an operational framework to support the smart provision of public goods; a toolbox putting together an inventory of options, operational means for valuation and evaluation, and a selection of policy/sector mechanisms; a consolidated and long-..