The literature review and web-searches provided basic information on different types of financing mechanisms globally, in the EU and other European countries. These consisted mainly of scientific and professional publications. The purpose was to analyse the marketing difficulties of non-market forest goods and services, to develop a typology of financing mechanisms, to give a theoretical characterisation of different types of financing mechanisms, and to provide an overview of the current use of financing mechanisms in the EU MS. Concerning the classification and characterisation of non-market forest goods and services, various studies on terminology, classification and taxonomy of forest goods and.
