Lifestyles of private forest owners as an indication of social change

Ziegenspeck, Svantje; Härdter, U.; Schraml, Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2004.01.004

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“…Selfemployed forestry in Northern Europe seldom provides a living for the people who are involved in it. Instead, it is generally conducted during individuals' leisure time and often makes only a limited contribution to their income (Törnqvist 1995;Ziegenspeck et al 2004). In a society where most people are gainfully employed, the mentioned conditions have several direct implications for the way in which the work is conducted.…”

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Accident rates and types among self-employed private forest owners

Lindroos

Burström

2010

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Half of all Swedish forests are owned by private individuals, and at least 215 000 people work in these privately owned forest holdings. However, only lethal accidents are systematically monitored among self-employed forest workers. Therefore, data from the registries of the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Labor Insurance Organization and the regional University Hospital in Umeå were gathered to allow us to perform a more in-depth assessment of the rate and types of accidents that occurred among private forest owners.We found large differences between the registries in the type and number of accidents that were reported. We encountered difficulties in defining "self-employed forest worker" and also in determining whether the accidents that did occur happened during work or leisure time. Consequently, the estimates for the accident rate that we obtained varied from 32 to >4300 injured persons per year in Sweden, depending on the registry that was consulted, the definition of the sample population that was used, and the accident severity definition that was employed. Nevertheless, the different registries gave a consistent picture of the types of accidents that occur while individuals are participating in self-employed forestry work. Severe accidents were relatively common, as self-employed forestry work fatalities constituted 7% of the total number of fatalities in the work authority registry. Falling trees were associated with many of these fatal accidents as well as with accidents that resulted in severe non-fatal injuries. Thus, unsafe work methods appeared more related to the occurrence of an accident than the equipment that was being used at the time of the accident (e.g., a chainsaw). Improvement of the workers' skills should therefore be considered to be an important prevention measure that should be undertaken in this field.The challenges in improving the safety in these smallest of companies, which fall somewhere between the purview of occupational and consumer safety, are exemplified and discussed.

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Accident rates and types among self-employed private forest owners

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Burström

2010

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Compared to private forest owners in Western European countries, nature protection and recreation are low on the list of priorities (Lönnstedt 1997;Karppinen 1998;Harrison et al 2000;Schraml and Volz 2003;Ziegenspeck et al 2004;Hogl et al 2005). Corresponding to the prevailing economic interests, the private forest owners expect from a PFOA extension services regarding forest management such as advice in support of forest road construction and maintenance, silviculture and harvesting.…”

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Towards an Ontology for the Description of Learning Resources on Disaster Risk Reduction

Zschocke

León

2010

Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research

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“…Theories of collective action have long since been applied to the use of forests in various parts of the world (e.g. Poteete and Ostrom 2004;Baland and Platteau 2000), including European forests (Hardter 2003;Schraml 2003;Ziegenspeck, Hardter and Schraml 2004;Schaffner 2000;Bittner 2003;Kvarda 2004;Schluter 2006). This article cannot apply the theorÿ of collective action to the current situation appropriately, a task that would require an additional paper.…”

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“…One could argue, when following many studies about the motivations of small-scale European forest owners, that economic underutilization is not a problem. Many small-scale forest owners have either absolutely no interest in their forest, or are more 2 interested in the recreational or ecological values of their property (Wiersum, Elands, and Hoogstra 2005;Ziegenspeck, Hardter, and Schraml 2004;Madsen-LM 2003;Holthausen and Baur 2004;Hoogstra, Schanz, and Wiersum 2004). In the past, many of the important values for small-scale private forest owners -recreational values and ecological values -were provided by the state on behalf of the small owners (Giessen 2003).…”

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Small-scale European forestry, an anticommons?

Schlueter

2008

Int J Commons

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Abstract:In the article, I look at a phenomenon present in many small-scale European forests, their underutilisation. This underutilisation is obvious when it comes to timber extraction, but it can be argued that it is also present in relation to certain ecological or social uses of the forest. I do not want to judge this phenomenon in the article, but want to understand the reason this underutilisation occurs. Looking at forest resources worldwide and also in history, we conventionally face a problem of overuse. Taking first the property rights theory, I then refer to the tragedy of the anticommons to analyse the underutilisation. We observe a spatial anticommons in our forests. Even if the outcome of the tragedy of the commons and of the tragedy of the anticommons are opposed, I argue that analysing the solutions to the problems requires the same theoretical background. Both are collective action problems. However, compared to problems observed in forests elsewhere, the conditions for collective action are substantially different in the regarded case. In closing, I briefly compare forests as anticommons with other debates on the anticommons going on in the other debates around the commons.

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Lifestyles of private forest owners as an indication of social change

Cited by 80 publications

References 8 publications

Accident rates and types among self-employed private forest owners

Accident rates and types among self-employed private forest owners

Towards an Ontology for the Description of Learning Resources on Disaster Risk Reduction

Small-scale European forestry, an anticommons?

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