Jouni Pykäläinen

• D.Sc.
• Professor at University of Eastern Finland

Purpose This study aims to investigate how co-evolutionary interactions between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and local actors shaped resource-intensive industry development over several decades, examining the economic, industrial and social implications of these interactions. It details the long-term effects of MNEs’ activities on the host coun...

The pulp and paper industry is one of the largest industries in the world. The main actors are a few multi-national enterprises operating in global markets. The industry is increasingly moving its production to the Global South, which alters global pulp value chains and the national socio-technical regimes of those countries. Additionally, the sust...

Weak signals, the first signs of a potentially emerging issue that could disrupt current trends and megatrends, are hidden among disconnected pieces of information. Analyzing weak signals can help decision makers generate preparedness and a rapid-response capacity for possible systemic changes in the forest bioeconomy, where weak signals have not b...

Global economic, social and environmental change drivers have tremendous effects on the dynamic and nested business environment calling for a sustainability transition to a circular bioeconomy. The transition will pressurise established industries to alter their value creation logic to consider sustainability holistically. The study follows a case...

Companies operate in a nested and complex system where global challenges shape their environments and put pressure on business activities. Systemic understanding of the past and ongoing changes within a national industry help to analyze the global influences and identify phenomena that reshape business collaborations. To address this issue in the c...

Forest industry companies are the chief exploiters of forest resources, and their day-today decisions and actions may have major implications for the sustainable development of forests, and for those who depend on them. Russian companies have a special place in this regard as they operate in the most forested country in the world and the local fore...

This paper was published on March 2017, Volume 22, Issue 3, 469–483pp, titled “Identification of structural breaks in the forest product markets: how sensitive are to changes in the Nordic region?” with errors referring to the units related to figure 1. Please see below.

This study demonstrates the characteristics of the new generic project portfolio selection tool YODA (“Your Own Decision Aid”). YODA does not include a mathematical aggregation model. Instead, the decision maker’s preferences are defined by the interactive articulation of acceptance thresholds of project-level decision criteria. Transparency and ea...

Emergence of more urban forest owners who live far from their forests challenges not only policies but also businesses for how to engage owners to active forest management. This study explores the opportunities of how exchanging and integrating intangible resources in collaborator networks may enable designing new types of forest services. To that...

Increasing role of services is often described as the increased share of services sector employment and value added in economy, although research on services addresses also the multiple ways how services are embedded in socio-economic processes and innovation. Integration of products and services is perceived with potential to improve efficiency in...

Common to multi-objective forest planning situations is that they all require comparisons, searches and evaluation among decision alternatives. Through these actions, the decision maker can learn from the information presented and thus make well-justified decisions. Interactive data visualization is an evolving approach that supports learning and d...

Industries have set ambitious targets for 2030 related to green building: Tripling the market share of wood construction, doubling the value added of the woodworking industries and reducing the environmental impact of construction by 30%. The objective of the study is to identify measures for meeting these targets, taking the case of wood-frame mul...

The increasing role of services for business making has been recognised in the forest-based sector, yet a systematic analysis of this emerging phenomenon is lacking. The current study derives from service research three perspectives for analysis: services activities separate from primary production and manufacturing–processing, services outputs sep...

Climate change, sustainably managed renewable raw materials and energy from biomass are some of the major challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. Globally, wood is the most important locally available renewable energy source for the human population. In Africa, fuelwood and charcoal production is the dominant use of woody biomass. When obtai...

Forests play a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and can be managed to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and conserve or sequester carbon. Global policy and environmental changes can affect regional consumption of forest products, as well as inter-regional trade of forest goods and services. This study analyzes global and regional change...

In Finnish only: Metsissä ulkoillaan, niitä ihaillaan ja niissä tarjotaan matkailupalveluja. Niitä suojellaan, hoidetaan ja niistä kiistellään. Suomen luonto on kokonaisuus, jonka käyttö herättää keskustelua. Kirjassa eri tieteenalojen tutkijat tarkastelevat metsiä yleistajuisesti muun muassa virkistyksen, maiseman ja talouden näkökulmista. Kirjass...

Programme-based Planning of Natural Resources (PBPNR) is an evolving planning frame for solving complex land use, environmental and forest management problems within hierarchically administrated funding and decision-making schemes. PBPNR acknowledges that an effective planning process requires the combined consideration of environmental, technologi...

The operational environment of forest-chip procurement in Finland is challenging, because increasing production is raising the costs due to the limited availability of biomass. Integrated harvesting of industrial roundwood and energy wood is one solution to lower the costs of biomass procurement from young forest stands. In addition, integration cr...

In this study, an interactive forest planning process corresponding to the practical demands was developed and further tested in a challenging forest planning situation in northeastern Finland. The process includes prior preparation of alternative stand-level treatments and a small amount of holding-level forest plans; an interactive planning sessi...

Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin optimoinnin käyttöä ja kehittämismahdollisuuksia yksityismetsien tila tason metsäsuunnittelussa. Aineisto (n = 25) kerättiin puhelimitse teemahaastatteluilla, joiden kohteena olivat Metsäkeskuksen alueiden metsäsuunnittelupäälliköt ja -asiantuntijat. Haastattelujen perusteella optimointia ei juuri käytetä ainakaan Metsäke...

Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena on syventää tietämystä siitä, mitä mieltä metsänomistajat ovat metsikkökohtaisten käsittelyvaihtoehtojen esittämisestä metsäsuunnittelussa, miten omistajat suhtautuvat erilaisiin vaihtoehtojen havainnollistamistapoihin ja millainen on erilaisten välittävien kohteiden (vaihtoehdot esittävä metsikköseloste, kartta, vanha...

Different planning approaches conclude to different results. The top-down approach allocates resources efficiently from the top-level perspective, while the bottom-up approach provides optimal results for the lower levels. Integrated approach that combines the elements of these two basic approaches provides compromise solutions for decision makers....

Tutkimuksessa johdetaan metsäsuunnittelun ja tulevaisuudentutkimuksen teorioista sekä ennakoinnin yleisistä periaatteista ns. ennakoivan alueellisen metsäohjelman (AMO) keskeiset piirteet. Lisäksi selvitetään toimintatutkimuksen keinoin näiden piirteiden mukaisen ennakoivan AMOn toteutettavuutta. Lähtökohtana on, että yhdistämällä metsäohjelmatyöss...

Voluntary biodiversity protection tools have been adopted for practical use in many countries where non-industrial private forest ownership includes invaluable biodiversity resources. This has created a new kind of decision problem for individual forest owners: they should be able to define their conditions for entering into a biodiversity protecti...

Quantitative decision analysis and respective planning models offer many benefits in forest planning. They are efficient, quick, inexpensive, objective, and repeatable. However, quantitative planning and the respective planning models also include many sources of uncertainty. In this paper our research objective is to analyse decision makers prefer...

Societal responsibilities of forestry have diversified, and criteria other than those related to wood production have been given more weight. Demands for forest management planning methods have changed in line with the changes in the operational environment. Thus, forest planners are facing a growing demand for more versatile and customer-oriented...

We tested the Mesta Internet-based decision-support application in connection with a natural resources planning (NRP) process in Eastern and Western Lapland, Finland. The aim in this process was to define the land-use allocation and the corresponding forest management operations for state-owned forests within these planning regions. Mesta was used...

A proper forest planning process includes the assessment of the decision-makers’ preferences concerning the future forest use. For some owners, it may be a difficult task to express their preferences exactly and in the form that is required for planning calculations. This study presents a new kind of approach for analyzing the effects of preferenti...

Voting methods were used by Metsähallitus in a real strategic participatory planning case in a regional working group context. The general aim of the study was to find out whether learning and collaborative decision making could be adequately supported by using the voting methods in the regional stakeholder group. Approval voting (AV) was used to s...

New forest-biodiversity-protection instruments based on temporary protection periods and non-industrial private forest owners' voluntary participation have been recently introduced and tested in pilot areas located in Southern Finland. Thanks to their several benefits, the use of voluntary instruments is becoming more common in many other countries...

The primary basis of contemporary forest planning research, which assumes the forest owner to maximize his or her expected utility, has left aside cognitive and social patterns of reasoning in real decision-making situations. To add on to present knowledge, the decision aid needs were approached by assessing different ways of solving decision probl...

This paper introduces the concept of complementary use of voting methods and interactive utility analysis (IUA) in strategic natural resource planning in western Finland as organized by Metshallitus. The voting and IUA methods were used by three working groups, the aim in using these methods being to support the working groups in formulating their...

The present study looked into and described the objectives set by forest owners for their forest ownership and management as a hierarchical cognitive map. The foundation of cognitive mapping lies in cognitive psychology, which is a discipline examining how the human being receives, records and uses information. Cognitive mapping is a method enablin...

The supply of Internet-based forest planning services to non-industrial private forest owners has increased. At the core of these services there is usually the "paper forest plan" in browseable format. The options to update the stand-level data and to download, fill and send various forms related to stand treatments are further characteristics of t...

New, cost efficient and voluntary biodiversity protection tools may require bidding price definition on part of the seller. Both the seller and the buyer can withdraw from negotiations if they find that the conditions of the protection contract are unacceptable. However, it can be very difficult for non-industrial, private landowners to define the...

Forest owners’ values and the ownership structure of forest are changing continuously. One probable consequence of the current trends in Finland is that the significance of forest-related income will decrease, which may have a significant impact on the round wood supply. This study developed and demonstrated a new method, which allows policy makers...

The forests in Finland have been under intensive planning for decades. Currently, mathematical programming is widely used in planning of wood production. Today's multi‐functional forestry, however, calls for more flexible decision support methods. MCDM tools have been used in responding to fresh planning challenges. For example, the Finnish Forest...

The study presents four ways to formulate a landscape level forest planning model for group planning using a heuristic optimization method called ‘HERO’. The HERO method is composed of two primary steps: first, forest management goals are defined; then a management plan is sought to fulfill the defined goals. The planning models consider the landsc...

Pykäläinen, J. 2001. Outranking methods as tools in strategic natural resources planning. Silva Fennica 35(2): 215–227. Two outranking methods, ELECTRE III and PROMETHEE II, commonly used as decision-aid in various environmental problems, and their applications to decision support for natural resources management are presented. These methods repres...

Diss. -- Joensuun yliopisto, 2001.

Pykäläinen, J. 2000. Defining forest owner's forest-management goals by means of a thematic interview in interactive forest planning. Silva Fennica 34(1): 47–59. Numerical optimization may not be the best way to launch an interactive planning process. The forest owner may not be able to identify precise management goals, as required in numerical op...

Decision analysis, as applied in this study, is a numeric approach to support decision making in complex and multiobjective selection problems. It was used interactively to participatory strategic planning of natural resources management in Kainuu by the Finnish Forest and Park Service. The parties defined their own goals through a multiattribute u...

Artikkelissa esitetään HERO-nimisen heuristisen optimointimenetelmän sovellus vuorovaikutteiseen metsäsuunnitteluun. Vuorovaikutteisessa eli interaktiivisessa yksityismetsien suunnittelussa metsänomistaja ja suunnittelija käyttävät suunnitteluohjelmistoa yhteisessä suunnitteluistunnossa toistaen suunnittelulaskelmia tarvittaessa useaan kertaan.

Municipalities own most of the urban forests in Finland. In this study urban forests are defined as urban woodlands with indigenous vegetation and located close to residential areas. The main aim of the study was to gain an overall picture of the planning processes of municipally owned urban forests and to discover together with the urban forest pr...