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Forests are vital carbon sinks, playing a key role in combating climate change by absorbing nearly one-third of global annual greenhouse gas emissions. In Finland, forests cover 75 % of the country's land area. However, there is currently no policy in place to encourage increased carbon sequestration on privately-owned forestland. This study aims t...
In Finland, the new Forest Act in 2014 made continuous cover forestry (CCF) a possible forest management option. This triggered research on how forest owners and forestry professionals perceive CCF. In Sweden and Norway, the CCF method has been legal but not encouraged. Research on stakeholder views on CCF has only recently emerged, so only a few s...
The agri-environment-climate measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy are incentives aiming to reduce negative environmental impacts and increase positive effects generated from agriculture. Several criticisms have been addressed to their efficiency and effectiveness and thus, the design of innovative contract solutions is currentl...
Results-based, collective action, value chain, and land tenure contracts are means to improve the management of agri-environmental public goods. The objective of this paper is to assess the understandability, applicability, and perceived economic benefit of each of these contract types by land managers and stakeholders in twelve European countries,...
The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is included among the strictly protected species of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EC) of the European Union, which is one of the key instruments for biodiversity preservation in Europe. Strict protection of the species has a potential to cause conflicts in areas where forest management and urban develo...
Forests are important for the transition to a bioeconomy. With 60% of Europe's forest area owned and managed by small-scale owners, these owners' management behaviour is key. Identifying commonalities and differences between owners in different EU countries promotes effective implementation of EU strategies for a sustainable transition to a wood-ba...
Finnish Forest Sector Economic Outlook 2022-2023.
Reference: Viitanen, J., Mutanen, A., Kniivilä, M., Haltia, E., Viitala, E.-J., Kallioniemi, M., Härkönen, K., Leppänen, J., Uotila, E., Routa, J. & Niinistö, T. 2022. Executive Summary. In: Viitanen, J., Mutanen, A. & Karvinen, S. Finnish Forest Sector Economic Outlook 2022–2023. Natural resource...
Finnish Forest Sector Economic Outlook 2021─2022, Executive summary.
Reference: Viitanen, J., Mutanen, A. Kniivilä, M., Haltia, E., Viitala, E.-J., Kallioniemi, M., Härkönen, K., Leppänen, J., Uotila, E. & Routa, J. 2021. Executive summary. In: Viitanen, J., Mutanen, A. & Karvinen, S. Finnish Forest Sector Economic Outlook 2021─2022. Natural resou...
In Europe, private forest owners play an important role in achieving sustainability goals, such as those set by the European Green Deal. Efficient communication and coordination with these actors is therefore central. However, ongoing structural changes in forest ownership have in many cases silenced traditional communication channels, especially t...
Heterogeneity of farmers’ preferences and willingness to accept compensation (WTA) related to a results-based agri-environmental policy were investigated using a choice experiment and latent class analysis. A quarter of farmers would be willing to switch to a results-based agri-environmental scheme (AES) with a moderate compensation request, wherea...
Abundance of information characterises decision-making about forest use. This challenges forest owners. Digitalisation and diverse e-services may enhance the delivery of forest resource information and decision support. However, little is known on how e-services engage forest owners. This study explores the Finnish state-funded Metsaan.fi e-service...
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In order to integrate ecosystem services (ES) in designing agri-environmental policy, we investigated both the demand for, and supply of, ES from agricultural environments in Finland. Using the discrete choice experiment method, we measured citizens’ willingness to pay (WTP) for four different ES and analysed farmers’ compensation
request (willingn...
Farmers' and citizens' perceptions of the legitimacy of the current action-oriented and the proposed result-oriented agri-environmental schemes (AES) are poorly known. To help fill this gap, this study analysed such perceptions in the context of Finnish citizens and farmers. Hypotheses on legitimacy, ecosystem service perceptions and environmental...
Ekosysteemipalveluiden huomioonottaminen maatalouden ympäristöpolitiikan suunnittelussa on olennaista. Tässä tutkimuksessa tuotetaan kansalais- ja viljelijäkyselyihin pohjautuen tietoa ekosysteemipalveluiden kysynnän ja tarjonnan kohtaamisesta. Ekosysteemipalveluita, joita kansalaiset pitävät tärkeinä, mutta joiden tuotannossa koetaan olevan parant...
Results of a 2016 forest owner survey conducted by Pellervo Economic Research PTT indicate that forest owners have numerous reasons to remain inactive in the management of their forests. Inactivity in this study refers to situations in which the forest owner has not submitted felling notices or applied for support under the Act on the Financing of...
Results of a 2016 project conducted by Pellervo Economic Research PTT indicate that forest owners have numerous reasons to remain inactive in the management of their forests. Inactivity in this study refers to situations in which the forest owner has not submitted felling notices or applied for support under the Act on the Financing of Sustainable...
The aim of this report is to assess the operational environment and regulations related to bioeconomy and to examine the possibilities to develop them further. Regulatory bottlenecks are only one of the obstacles which hinder reaching the targets set for bioeconomy. To reach the goals, it is also important to remove bottlenecks related to attitudes...
Tässä pilottitutkimuksessa selvitettiin Iijoen ulkopaikkakuntalaisten kalastajien mielipiteitä
lohikannan palauttamisesta Iijokeen sekä arvioitiin, kuinka paljon palauttaminen tuottaisi heille
hyötyä. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytettiin ehdollisen arvottamisen menetelmää (contingent
valuation method). Tutkimuksessa verrattiin toisiinsa kahta lohikannan...
Environmental quality has a direct effect on citizens’ welfare. To quantify this effect, the four articles of this thesis analyse Finnish citizens’ willingness to pay (WTP) for increased forest conservation using the contingent valuation (CV) and choice experiment (CE) methods. These methods are based on neo-classical welfare economics augmented wi...
Ecosystem services are material or immaterial benefits that
produce wellbeing for the society – either in economic or non-economic
terms. Forests, peatlands, agriculturallands, and inland waters alltogether
provide many ecosystem services for the society. While some ecosystem
services, such as wheat, timber, and peat, have a market value, other...
This paper introduces novel approach for " uncertainty " in stated preference studies as we separate uncertainty into two components, choice difficulty and response uncertainty, which were elicited by using distinct follow-up questions after each choice task in a choice experiment. This allows us to examine the relationship between the subjective a...
The willingness to pay (WTP) distribution of the common logit model does not necessarily provide an accurate description of
all respondents, and may therefore produce unrealistic results. Problems may occur when respondents indicate zero WTP, or
the data displays what is known as the “fat tail” problem; that is, the data indicates that a large shar...
The effects of cost-sharing and information assistance on nonindustrial private forest owners' investment in timber stand improvements are analyzed using a two-step estimation method. We use survey data on Finnish nonindustrial private forestland owners' stand improvements in 1994–1998, including precommercial thinnings, cleaning of seedling stands...
This study analyses Finnish citizens’ valuations of forest conservation programmes for southern Finland. Contingent valuation (CV) and choice experiment (CE) methods were applied. According to the CV results, 74% of respondents were prepared to pay for increased conservation and 16% supported increased conservation but were not willing to pay for i...
a ja Eija Pouta b Tutkimushankkeessa arvioitiin sitä, kuinka paljon suomalaiset kokevat hyötyvänsä Etelä-Suomen ja Pohjanmaan metsien suojelusta. Tutkimuksen päätavoite oli selvittää kotitalouksien kokemien metsien suojeluhyötyjen taloudellinen arvo mittaamalla kansalaisten ilmaisemaa maksuhalukkuutta. Suojeluhyötyjen rahallisen arvon määrittäminen...
The current policy process to develop forest conservation in southern Finland requires information about Finnish citizens' attitudes towards forest conservation. Dichotomous- choice contingent valuation (CV) data were collected by both mail and Internet surveys to provide monetary welfare estimates for policy planning and also to compare these two...
