This study investigates landowners’ preferences for afforestation contracts in Denmark using a choice experiment. Four attributes are investigated: purpose of afforestation, option of denouncing the contract, control by authorities and subsidy levels. One average, landowners showed strong...

In the Decade since the conception of forest certification, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification has emerged as the most globally recognized scheme. However, the area of FSC certified forests in the highly forested, developing countries of the tropics has remained relatively small...

Designers need knowledge about peoples’ perceptions, based on sensory examinations of wood. This study describes results of a combined tactile and visual perceptional assessment of five common wood species in Sweden. The species were graded with regard to ten words. Differences in ratings...

One of the key issues of Estonian Forest Development Plan 2020 is to maintain and increase the competitiveness of Estonian forest sector. For the maximum effect for the sector (also for the whole country in wide perspective), all parts of the sector should operate competitively. In 2004 the...

The principal objective of this work was to develop market competence and more efficient trade mechanisms in the Norwegian roundwood markets. The standard delivery contract covers about 90% of the traded roundwood volume in Norway. Information about the functioning of this contract was gathered...

Large suppliers of wood products and large industrial customers and mega-retailers experience situations, where there are fewer potential partners for large-scale business agreements. The customer-supplier relationships are moving in the direction of bilateral relationships between large and...

The business environment for sawnwood producers based in the traditional forest-industry countries of the boreal zone has changed dramatically in the last decade. Among the greatest changes is the establishment of the European Monetary Union (EMU). However, the effect of the associated exchange...