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Welfare Incidence of Subsidized Recreation Services in Finland
Huhtala, Anni; Pouta, Eija - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
The paper addresses the question who benefits from public funding of recreation areas. Employing a survey data set that includes both users and nonusers of state-owned recreation and conservation areas in Finland, we derive measures of the income elasticity of willingness to pay for recreation...
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A Change in the Paradigm? Ecosystem Goods and Services in Finnish Forest and Environmental Policies
Saastamoinen, O. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 44
in the strategies and policies related to forests and environment. Some attention is given to international and domestic …
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Developing the Business: Logging Contractors' Strategic Choices for Profitability and Work Environment
Hultaker, Oscar; Bohlin, Folke - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
same period there have been reports on a declining work environment in logging leading to difficult recruitment of … personnel. Previous research has shown needs for both business and work environment development in the logging industry. This … or transform their companies to improve profitability and work environment. We have interviewed logging contractors and …
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Collective initiatives on improving work environment in Swedish mechanised forestry – A case of institutional entrepreneurship and change
Hultaker, Oscar - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 41
In 1992 the Swedish Work Environment Authority (SWEA) considered actions limiting the permitted working hours in forest … machine operation. As the forest harvesting industry collectively took initiatives aiming at improving the work environment …, the Work Environment Authority only issued recommendations. The industry actors did not agree on how to continue; hence …
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Economic Treatment of Recreational Congestion
Price, Colin - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
recreation economics treats spatial problems of varying dimensionality. Travel cost models, once fashionable but no longer so, take recreation sites as point destinations, ideally, located rationally in relation to population. One-dimensional problems, concerning extent of trails, have received...
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Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics
Pajuoja, Heikki; Karppinen, Heimo - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
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Evaluating Three Innovative Financial Instruments of the Costa Rican Plantation Forestry System
Navarro, Guillermo - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
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The EU Forest Policy after the Enlargement: A Method for Assessing the New Member States' Potential Impact
Nielsen, Palle Urup; Poulstrup, Erik; Helles, Finn; … - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
The enlargemenr of the Eu in 1995 with Austria, Finland and Sweden had a considerable effect on the Union's policy on forests, and there is reason to believe that further impact will arise from the enlargement in 2004 with ten Central and Eastern European countries. The present study aims at...
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A Hybrid Heuristic Algorithm for Harvest Decision of Mixed Species Stand under Price Risk
Lu, Fadian - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
In this article, a hybrid heuristic algorithm based in Genetic Algorithm and Hooke and Jeeves in described for solving a complicated forest harvest decision problem, which involves optimization of thinning and final felling under price risk for a mixed species stand of spruce and pine. The...
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Incentives for Local Authorities to Supply Environmental Benefits through Afforestation
Anthon, Signe; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
In 1989 the Danish Parliament announced it an official goal of the forest policy to double the Danish forest area in 60-100 years. One of the goals of this policy was to improve the recreational possibilities for the urban population. Therefore focus has been on furthering public afforestation...
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