Research trends: Forest ownership in multiple perspectives

Weiss, Gerhard; Lawrence, Anna; Lidestav, Gun; Feliciano, Diana; Hujala, Teppo; Sarvašová, Zuzana; Dobšinská, Zuzana; Živojinović, Ivana

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2018.10.006

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“…The findings also complement studies carried out at the regional or local scales on baldios located in the north of Portugal (Baptista 2010;Gomes 2009;Luz 2017, etc.). Lack of data on spatial extent, the enabling conditions, and effectiveness of CBF tenure regimes in other European countries (Weiss et al 2018; Zivojinovi c et al 2015) makes it difficult to compare the results of this study at the international level.…”

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confidence: 97%

Assessment of Portuguese Community Forestry using the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure and FAO Community-Based Forestry Framework

Skulska

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Aggarwal³

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Society & Natural Resources

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In the last five decades, Community-Based Forestry (CBF) has become a subject of special attention. It is assumed that the transfer of rights to local communities will improve forest management. In Portugal more than 13% of the forest area belongs to local communities (termed baldios). Following FAO tools, assessments of Forest Tenure and CBF were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of four baldio management types. The results revealed the most common challenges for baldios, visa -vis, rights associated with their management, protection of these rights, weak land administration, weak mechanisms for conflict resolution, problems with decentralized state support, cash flow management, and environmental challenges leading to wildfires, loss of biodiversity, and inadequate control of pests and invasive species. Resolution of these challenges is urgently needed at the legal, administrative and local levels. Future research should include assessments of CBF in other European countries to reduce the existing knowledge gap.

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Assessment of Portuguese Community Forestry using the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure and FAO Community-Based Forestry Framework

Skulska

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Aggarwal³

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Society & Natural Resources

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“…From the opposite perspective, diversifying ownership can also be seen as an advantage in terms of the multifaceted policy goals for forests, which encompass tangible as well as intangible benefits (Weiss et al 2019b). Further, as forest owners as consumers have come across the same trends in the markets, it is interesting to see whether their values are also reflected in their attitudes towards, and perceptions of, their forests.…”

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Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy

Häyrinen¹

2019

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thank you all for the discussions and memorable moments during the process. I gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the research projects 'FP-Serve' and 'FORTUNE', funded by Business Finland (formerly TEKES-the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation) and 'FORESCOF', funded by the Academy of Finland. I am also grateful for receiving both the young researchers' grant and the dissertation completion grant from the University of Helsinki, as well as the research grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. For the funding of my conference trips abroad, I want to thank the Finnish Society of Forest Science, the former Graduate School in Forest Sciences (GSForest), the Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources (AGFOREE) and my research projects. My sincere thanks go to pre-examiners Gun Lidestav and Erlend Nybakk for reviewing my thesis. A warm thanks also to Pekka Ripatti for agreeing to be my opponent. I would like to give special acknowledgements to the anonymous forest owner respondents whose time and interest made this dissertation possible. Also, thanks to the anonymous referees for reviewing our articles and to the language reviewers for making our articles and my dissertation more fluent. To my friends, thank you all for your loving friendship and for sharing in the great moments of my life. Thanks to my parents, Ilkka and Arja, my brother, Kalle, and my sister, Iida, for always helping and supporting me in all aspects of life. Thanks also to my extended family, Pekka, Kasper, Laura and the baby boy, for your great company. Finally, my deepest gratitude go to Jaakko for always believing in me and being there for me; and to my wonderful children, Elle and Rosa, for always bringing laughter and joy to my life. Helsinki, June 2019 Liina Häyrinen Häyrinen L. (2019). Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy. Dissertationes Forestales 280. 54 p.

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“…Whereas previous studies of forest management activities have generally not compared the determinants of different management strategies (but see Joshi and Arano 2009 ), the present study explored predictors of different types of management behaviors, including management for production, biodiversity, recreation, climate adaptation, and climate mitigation. With thought to the changes in forest ownership in many Western countries, e.g., more absentee owners and fewer owners relying on their forest for income (Hogl et al 2005 ; Ficko et al 2017 ; Weiss et al 2019 ), the determinants of management inactivity were also explored. Overall, the study examined: (1) forest management behaviors (i.e., frequency of engaging in different management strategies, including management inactivity, and relations between strategies); (2) structural correlates of forest management behaviors, including gender, age, education, size of forest holding, residency, place, and region; and (3) the importance of actual knowledge, confidence, value priorities, and FOI for forest management behaviors.…”

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The Knowledge and Value Basis of Private Forest Management in Sweden: Actual Knowledge, Confidence, and Value Priorities

Eriksson

Fries

2020

Environmental Management

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With growing demands on forests, there is a need to understand the drivers of managing the forest for diverse objectives, such as production, recreation, and climate adaptation. The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge and value basis of forest management behaviors, including different management strategies and management inactivity, among private forest owners in Sweden. Different dimensions of knowledge (declarative and procedural knowledge, assessed in terms of objective and subjective knowledge measures) and value priorities (basic values and forest values), as well as the role of forest owner identity, were examined. The study was conducted by means of a postal questionnaire to a random sample of private forest owners in Sweden (n = 3000, response rate 43%). The distinctions between actual knowledge (objective knowledge), confidence (subjective knowledge), and value priorities, in addition to the hierarchical structure of how these factors are linked to management behaviors, proved to be valuable. Results revealed that different knowledge dimensions and value priorities were jointly important for forest management behaviors. In addition, the role of forest owner identity for management behaviors was confirmed. Insights from the study may be used to develop policy and outreach to private forest owners and thereby facilitate different forest functions in private forestry.

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Research trends: Forest ownership in multiple perspectives

Cited by 53 publications

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Assessment of Portuguese Community Forestry using the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure and FAO Community-Based Forestry Framework

Assessment of Portuguese Community Forestry using the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure and FAO Community-Based Forestry Framework

Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy

The Knowledge and Value Basis of Private Forest Management in Sweden: Actual Knowledge, Confidence, and Value Priorities

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