Matleena Kniivilä

• Doctor of Science (Forest Economics)
• Senior Researcher at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

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...

Purpose of Review This review aims to discover the most common topics and trends in international scientific forest sector research between January 2000 and December 2019 and to test the suitability of a quantitative topic-modeling method to extract topics from the data. The results will be helpful for both researchers and policy decision-makers in...

COVID-19-pandemian vaikutukset näkyvät globaalisti vielä pitkään 2020-luvulla. Tässä selvityksessä tarkastellaan, millaisia vaikutuksia vaihtoehtoisissa tulevaisuutta kuvaavissa kehityksissä kohdistuu metsäsektorille, luontoon perustuvaan matkailu- ja luonnontuotealaan sekä maa-, elintarvike- ja kalatalouteen 2020-luvulla. Selvityksen arviot perust...

ISBN 978-952-326-897-5 (Online) ISSN 2342-7647 (Print) ISSN 2342-7639 (Online) URN http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-326-897-5

Purpose of Review The two Nordic European Union countries, Finland and Sweden, have common features and similarities based on their rich forest resources and sizable sawmill industry with internationalization mainly through exports. We compared the Finnish and Swedish sawmill industries and market developments since 1990 and discussed the most emin...

Bioeconomy development will create new opportunities for firms operating in the international wood products markets, and identifying and exploiting these opportunities is emphasized as a key concept to achieving business success. Our study will attempt to address a gap in the literature on sawmill industry business development from the viewpoint of...

Industrial tree plantations in developing countries result in land-use changes affecting local livelihood possibilities and the availability of ecosystem services. Given the benefits that plantations also produce, the key question lies in making plantations compatible with other land uses. Our paper investigates trade-offs related to ecosystem serv...

Natural and cultural heritage represent key assets that deliver different kind of benefits to citizens in the Nordic countries. This report illustrates the economic values at stake and discusses the important and inevitable key trade-offs facing decision-makers charged with managing these assests. The report has three goals: to briefly describe exi...

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...

Environmental impacts are increasing due to human activities. The overuse of the benefits nature provides us is the direct result of our failure to put a price on these benefits. One way of address ...

In this chapter, the impacts of policies on sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural development are assessed. The assessment is based on a qualitative policy impact analysis carried out in three MPCs and Turkey. For the analysis, a qualitative policy analysis framework was developed to capture the impacts of different policy programs on the dif...

This report presents the results from the research project National Assessment of the Economics of Ecosystem Services in Finland (TEEB Finland). This pioneering project aimed to initiate a systematic national process for the integration of ecosystem services and related biodiversity (i.e. natural capital) into all levels of decision-making. TEEB fo...

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...

The aim of this study is to define the main factors of sustainable agriculture and forestry in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey. The study is based on the review of existing literature and country level analyses. In the study indicators which can be used to measure sustainability are defined and examined and data on these is collected. Major chal...

Abstract. The aim of this study is to define the main factors of sustainable agriculture and forestry in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey. The study is based on a review of existing literature and country-level analyses. In the study indicators which can be used to measure sustainability are defined and examined and data on these is collected. T...

It is commonly assumed that respondents' lack of familiarity with the valued resource causes invalid and unreliable responses in contingent valuation surveys. With non-users' valuations, mainly motivated by non-use values, the issue is also closely linked to the discussion of the measurement of non-use values. This paper re-examines the impact of p...

Rather than individual consumer preferences, responses to referendum-style contingent valuation surveys on environmental goods may express citizen assessments that take into account benefits to others. We reconsider the consumer versus citizen hypothesis with a focus on the role of framing information. Survey data on conservation areas in Ilomantsi...

Diss. -- Joensuun yliopisto.

In addition to environmental interests vs. timber production, debates on forest conservation have typically dealt with nationwide vs. local and regional interests. While most previous studies have focused on the nationwide perspective, this paper considers the benefits and costs of existing conservation areas from the regional and local point of vi...

Costs generated by nature conservation are repeatedly under discussion. Most often the costs of conservation are estimated as aggregate figures at the national or regional level or alternatively, for a forest owner. In this study they were examined at the local level, in the forestry dependent municipality of Ilomantsi in Eastern Finland. The estim...

The study proposes a technique which enables the computation of user-defined indices for species diversity. These indices are derived from characteristics, called diversity indicators, of inventory plots, stand compartments, and the whole forest holding. The study discusses the modifications required to be made to typical forest planning systems du...