How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis

Nichiforel, Liviu; Keary, Kevin; Deuffic, Philippe; Weiss, Gerhard; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark; Winkel, Georg; Avdibegović, Mersudin; Dobšinská, Zuzana; Feliciano, Diana; Gatto, Paola; Górriz‐Mifsud, Elena; Hoogstra-Klein, Marjanke A.; Hrib, Michal; Hujala, Teppo; Jager, Laszlo; Jarský, Vilém; Jodłowski, Krzysztof; Lawrence, Anna; Lukminė, Diana; Malovrh, Špela Pezdevšek; Nedeljković, Jelena; Nonić, Dragan; Ostoić, Silvija Krajter; Pukall, Klaus; Rondeux, Jacques; Samara, Theano; Sarvašová, Zuzana; Scriban, Ramona Elena; Šilingienė, Rita; Šinko, Milan; Stojanovska, Makedonka; Stojanovski, Vladimir; Stoyanov, Nickola; Teder, Meelis; Vennesland, Birger; Vilkriste, Lelde; Wilhelmsson, Erik; Wilkes-Allemann, Jerylee; Bouriaud, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.034

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“…The public right of access and the right to extract goods from privately owned forests varies significantly from one country to another. In Europe the everyman's rights apply in the Northern European countries, but similar rights are practiced in other countries in relation to some NWFPs, too (Nichiforel et al 2018). In some areas, the picking pressure of NWFPs can be very high, namely, in household and commercial use, which causes conflict among land-owners, local people and pickers.…”

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The availability and supply of marketed mushrooms in Eastern Finland

Tahvanainen¹

2020

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The use of marketed mushrooms is predicted to increase worldwide. Currently, the marketed mushroom yields in Finland remain largely unutilized, and forest management mainly aims at timber production. In this thesis, the availability and limitations of the raw material procurement and market supply of marketed mushrooms in Eastern Finland were studied. Empirical yield models were formulated for the most marketed species in spruce stands: cep (Boletus edulis), milk cap (Lactarius spp.) and all marketed mushrooms. Optimal stand management was defined for the joint production of timber and mushrooms. The socially acceptable limits for mushroom picking on private land were investigated through a forest owner survey, and the supply of marketed mushrooms was modeled to study which factors affect the marketed quantities of mushrooms in Eastern Finland. The results suggest that the Eastern Finnish spruce stands produced their highest mushroom yields right before the first commercial thinning, and precipitation during the yield season promoted the yields. The production of timber and marketed mushrooms was largely in synergy, and if mushrooms are picked for sale, the total soil expectation value (SEV) in good mushroom stands can be remarkable. The forest owners in Eastern Finland expressed some restriction needs for organized commercial picking, but they were otherwise content with the everyman's rights regarding mushroom picking. The supply of marketed mushrooms was affected by biological and economic factors; precipitation had a positive influence on cep and milk cap supplies and market price negatively impacted the supplies of ceps and chanterelles. The results contribute to a more stable and sustainable raw material supply to the mushroom supply chains by providing novel information on the supply of marketed mushrooms and limits of socially acceptable mushroom picking and by developing concrete tools to integrate mushroom production into forest management planning and to plan for mushroom picking.

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The availability and supply of marketed mushrooms in Eastern Finland

Tahvanainen¹

2020

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“…thinning from above versus from below) [ [44]. The regional policy frameworks, with different degrees of freedom in choosing the forest management options [81], limit the range of possible adaptive management activities, yet it is important to have flexibility in the adaptation to different objectives and perceived future risks [46].…”

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Which Silvicultural Measures Are Recommended to Adapt Forests to Climate Change? A Literature Review

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Bouriaud²

2019

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Climate change is a challenge for forest managers and owners. The trees regenerated in forest stands today will have to cope with changing conditions during their lifetime. Adaptive forest management includes a large variety of silvicultural measures: changes in species composition by converting monocultures to mixed forests, changes in forest structure, intensified thinning, or the reduction of rotation time. The aim of this review is to highlight the silvicultural measures and practices that have been recommended for adaptation to climate change, and to apply Bolte's classification of adaptation strategies in order to identify which type of strategy is recommended in the literature. The literature review shows that active adaptation strategy tends to dominate as compared with passive adaptation or forest conservation measures. On the other hand, active adaptation with intensified thinning, shorter rotation periods, and change in the forest structure presents the risk of being rejected by a part of society for which climate change adaption should be a natural process. In addition, the current policy framework may limit the freedom of active adaptation measures.

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“…The policy approach is mainly based on mandatory instruments which set the baseline, while voluntary mechanisms are mostly absent (Secco et al 2011). Forest owners are immersed in a complex regulatory framework, with limited forest management rights (Nichiforel et al 2018), where harvesting beyond specific thresholds 1 needs to be authorised. Land-use change from forests to other uses is admitted only in exceptional cases.…”

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Are non-industrial private forest owners willing to deliver regulation ecosystem services? Insights from an alpine case

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As non-industrial private forest owners own a large share of forests in Europe, their management choices can largely affect the delivery of forest ecosystem services of different types: provisional, regulation and cultural. The literature is rich in studies exploring the delivery of both provisional services (timber or wood products) and cultural ones (recreation or amenity). However, fewer researches have addressed the delivery of regulation services like regulation of climate, carbon sequestration or preservation of habitats. The paper intends to contribute to this scarce literature with a Southern European case study. It analyses whether non-industrial private forest owners from an Italian alpine region would be willing to deliver additional (i.e. beyond legal requirements) quantities of regulation forest ecosystem services, whether they would do so with or without payment, and what affects such willingness. Three services are analysed: habitat improvement, soil conservation and carbon sequestration. Three multinomial logit models are estimated on a sample of 106 non-industrial forest owners. The results show, among others, that the willingness to deliver regulation forest ecosystem services is enhanced when the service impacts also on the property scale: this result concurs with the literature which shows that non-industrial private forest owners very often maximise not only their profit but also their overall utility by considering the self-consumption of services. The paper concludes by providing indications for targeting and tailoring active forest management policies focused on non-industrial forest owners of Italian alpine regions.

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How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis

Cited by 107 publications

References 36 publications

The availability and supply of marketed mushrooms in Eastern Finland

The availability and supply of marketed mushrooms in Eastern Finland

Which Silvicultural Measures Are Recommended to Adapt Forests to Climate Change? A Literature Review

Are non-industrial private forest owners willing to deliver regulation ecosystem services? Insights from an alpine case

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