Co-production of forestry science and society: Evolving interpretations of economic sustainability in Finnish forestry textbooks

Rytteri, Teijo; Peltola, Taru; Leskinen, Leena A.

doi:10.1016/j.jfe.2016.03.001

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“…However, several authors agree that the components of sustainability are economy, society, and environment, which together work towards the long-term prosperity of territories and their communities [33,46,47]. From this trilogy, terms such as circular economy, social innovation, green innovation, eco-innovation, green consumption, among others, have been incorporated, which gives an idea of the plethora of interpretations that accompanies sustainable development [33,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59].…”

Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Agro Alternatives to Boost Cameroon’s Socio-Environmental Resilience, Sustainable Development, and Conservation of Native Forests

Bas

Gagnon

et al. 2022

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Located in Central Africa, Cameroon is a country with strong social inequalities and fragile governance and institutions. This has a direct impact on the sustainable development of its territory, communities, and native forest, which are subject to constant socio-environmental and economic pressures due to overexploitation. This research has three purposes: (1) to conduct a comparative theoretical/empirical diagnosis on the quality of Cameroon’s institutional framework, governance, and public policies related to territorial sustainability; (2) to assess the impact of the three clusters identified among the 44 stakeholders interviewed (forestry companies/certifiers; NGOs/communities; and banks/public institutions) on each other; and (3) to analyze the contribution of the use of cassava (Manihot esculenta) as an agro alternative to Cameroon’s socio-ecological resilience, sustainable development, and conservation of native forests. The research found: (1) the need for mixed governance with joint accountability to find equitable and lasting sustainable solutions for the parties involved, making communities/ethnic groups visible in the decision-making process; and (2) the agro use of cassava has a positive impact on socio-ecological resilience by contributing to employment, the protection of devastated soils, and the provision of quality food, and by reducing pollution from the cement industry through using cassava waste as an input.

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Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Agro Alternatives to Boost Cameroon’s Socio-Environmental Resilience, Sustainable Development, and Conservation of Native Forests

Bas

Gagnon

et al. 2022

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“…To understand the historical context concerning the emergence of the natural disturbance-based management approach, it is useful to review the development of forest management methods over the past century (Figure 1). In general and through time, changes in management approaches have reflected societal needs for different kinds of forest resources and fears of their depletion; furthermore, they are a product of technological and methodological advances, and growing knowledge in ecological and forest sciences (Rytteri et al, 2016). The idea of natural disturbance-based management is paradoxical in that natural disturbances have typically been considered the foresters' worst enemy, and basing forest management on natural disturbance patterns may be difficult for managers to accept (Kuuluvainen and Grenfell, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a consequence, while hosting only 2% of the global forest area, Swedish and Finnish sawn wood and paper export make up more than 15% globally (SNS, 2020). The established model of intensive forestry is considered sustainable from the point of view of timber, pulp and biomass yield (Rytteri et al, 2016). However, such a definition of sustainability does not meet current national and international standards, in particular because it does not address the fact that a large part of forest biodiversity is in jeopardy (Hanski, 2000;Kontula and Raunio, 2018;Hyvärinen et al, 2019;SLU ArtDataBanken, 2020), nor does it recognize the steeply declining role of intensive forestry and forest industry for regional and rural sustainability (Angelstam et al, 2020b).…”

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Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry

Kuuluvainen

Angelstam

Frelich

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Global forest area is declining rapidly, along with degradation of the ecological condition of remaining forests. Hence it is necessary to adopt forest management approaches that can achieve a balance between (1) human management designs based on homogenization of forest structure to efficiently deliver economic values and (2) naturally emerging self-organized ecosystem dynamics that foster heterogeneity, biodiversity, resilience and adaptive capacity. Natural disturbance-based management is suggested to provide such an approach. It is grounded on the premise that disturbance is a key process maintaining diversity of ecosystem structures, species and functions, and adaptive and evolutionary potential, which functionally link to sustainability of ecosystem services supporting human well-being. We review the development, ecological and evolutionary foundations and applications of natural disturbance-based forest management. With emphasis on boreal forests, we compare this approach with two mainstream approaches to sustainable forest management, retention and continuous-cover forestry. Compared with these approaches, natural disturbance-based management provides a more comprehensive framework, which is compatible with current understanding of multiple-scale ecological processes and structures, which underlie biodiversity, resilience and adaptive potential of forest ecosystems. We conclude that natural disturbance-based management provides a comprehensive ecosystem-based framework for managing forests for human needs of commodity production and immaterial values, while maintaining forest health in the rapidly changing global environment.

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“…The concept of sustainability has been modified and updated due, among other reasons, to the changes in the role played by forests in society [66,67]. Besides that, the demand for goods and services coming from forest systems has been continuously increasing [68], meaning that, today, forest management is much more polyhedral (or multi-faceted, according to [69]) than it was three centuries ago, and includes other ecosystem services not contemplated in the original idea of sustainability, such as in the case of biodiversity [70].…”

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Sustainability in Forest Management Revisited Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

Ezquerro

Pardos²,

Dı́az-Balteiro

2019

Sustainability

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Since its origins, the idea of sustainability has always been linked to forest management. However, nowadays, sustainable forest management has usually been approached by defining a set of criteria and indicators. This paper aims to address sustainability in forest management including a set of criteria encompassing the most common decisions: whether the stands are even or uneven-aged, and the optimal silviculture that should be applied in each stand. For this purpose, a lexicographic goal programming model with two priority levels has been defined, into which six different criteria are integrated. Each criterion corresponds to a particular pillar (economic, technical, or environmental). Furthermore, also incorporated into the model are the preferences of diverse stakeholders, both for the criteria considered in the analysis and for the most suitable silvicultural alternatives to be applied in each stand. This methodology has been applied to a case study in Spain, and the results show much more attractive solutions than the current forest management planning, allowing the obtainment of multi-aged systems that could be favourable for other ecosystem services.

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Co-production of forestry science and society: Evolving interpretations of economic sustainability in Finnish forestry textbooks

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Analysis of Agro Alternatives to Boost Cameroon’s Socio-Environmental Resilience, Sustainable Development, and Conservation of Native Forests

Analysis of Agro Alternatives to Boost Cameroon’s Socio-Environmental Resilience, Sustainable Development, and Conservation of Native Forests

Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry

Sustainability in Forest Management Revisited Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

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