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Spatial-econometric analysis of landowner participation in voluntary forest conservation programs.
Nikelsen, A.S. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 44
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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 … ”narrow ” biodiversity focus to broader ecosystem services approach are already being taken into account in prospecting … “socio-economic turn” in biodiversity based environmental policies in Finland. Ecosystem goods and services will also play …
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Forest owners’ decision support for voluntary conservation – the present state and tensions among purposeful action models in Finland
Kumela, H.; Hujala, T.; Rantala, M.; Pyalainen, J. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 44
The ongoing Forest Biodiversity Programme METSO largely relies on voluntary participation of family forest owners. In … the METSO programme, forest owners have the power to decide upon conservation, in contrast to traditional top …-down programmes. Forest owners can get advice and information about conservation practices from a wide range of forestry and …
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Excepted coverage of endangered species on Danish heathland
Strange, Niels; Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl; Tarp, Peter; … - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 41
. Thus, the study provides insights which may guide conservation authorities on how to target their actions so that they … economic evaluations of conservation targets could be included in such conservation policy analysis. …
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How spatial variation influences landowner willingness to provide ecosystem services
Broch, Stine Wamberg; Strange, Niels; Wilson, Kerrie A. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 43
the need for biodiversity conservation, groundwater protection and recreation. The aim is to discuss if spatial variation …Within conservation literature increasing attention is on conservation opportunity valuing actual implementation …. Previously focus has been on conservation priority among areas with the highest biological value or lowest cost. However, when …
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Creating market for biodiversity by using habitat banking: preliminary assessment of applicability to Finland
Kniivilä, M; Kosenius, A-K. A.-K.1, Horne, P.1; Horne, P. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 45
of biodiversity. The mechanism includes ecological and economic risks, and thus the possible implementation in Finland … compensate direct or indirect ecological harms caused to conservation areas e.g. by large scale infrastructural development …
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Exploring possibilities for reducing woodland deforestation and degradation at village level in Sub- Saharan Africa
Hofstad, Ole; Sankhayan, Prem L. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 43
Avoided deforestation may be financed through a multilateral fund for climate change in the future. There is a concern that payments for REDD should benefit the poor, and that it is necessary to design incentives that make sustainable forestry more profitable than deforestation or degradation....
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Welfare Incidence of Subsidized Recreation Services in Finland
Huhtala, Anni; Pouta, Eija - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
includes both users and nonusers of state-owned recreation and conservation areas in Finland, we derive measures of the income …
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Finnish family forest owners' retention tree management behaviour
Hänninen, Harri; Koskela, Terhi; Kurttila, Mikko - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 42
In Scandinavia a widely adopted biodiversity maintenance measure in managed forests is to leave retention trees to the … the retention trees. The attitudes of forest owners in Finland towards biodiversity issues in managed forests and their … general, forest owners' attitudes were positive but their level of knowledge on biodiversity issues was moderately low. There …
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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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