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- Lidestav, Gun, et al.
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Does Forest certification make a difference? – An analysis of non-industrial private forestry in Sweden
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the footsteps of national and international environmental debates, and an increasing consumer pressure for sustainable wood and paper products, the Swedish forest land is increasingly becoming certified according to one or more of the schemes developed since early 1990ties. Almost 11 million ha, mainly in state and company owned forest land, are certified according to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard. On non-industrial private forest (NIPF) land the competing Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes PEFC, now covering approximately 7.7 million ha certified forests. This paper focuses on NIPF; raising the questions of whom do certify their forest, and in what way this has influenced their management behavior. The forest owners were categorize with respect to forest certification or not, and female or male, self-active or not, resident or not within these two categories. Irrespective of the forest certification as an consequence of a special management behavior or not, an analysis was conducted to verify if forest owner of a certificated management units and not certificated management units respectively have any characteristic in common. Differences in degree of forest certification, with respect to the size of the management units, gender, self-active and resident, has also been analyzed. Silvicultural and cutting treatments performed on the management units have been categorized compared to forest certification or not. At the conference results regarding activities performed at the forest management units and the private forest owners attitude to forest certification or not will be performed, with respect to different categories of forest owners
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- Lidestav, Gun, et al.
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Preface: Gender and forestry
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 25, s. 1-5
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lidestav, Gun
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To manage or not manage - forest owners’ perspectives on natural forests
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ever since the land reforms in the late 19th century and the introduction of the first Forest Act in the beginning of the 20th century, a governing state principle has been to improve forestry by reshape the norms of the forest owners to realign their self-interest more towards serving the public good. From time to time, detailed regulations, command and control monitoring, economic incentives, information campaigns has become preferred instrument of archiving the goal. This “Swedish model of forest policy”, with a strong emphasis on silviculture and timber production until, has also proved to be efficient. The Swedish small scale forest owners has in an international perspective been comparatively ready at producing timber as it is i) profitable ii) simple, and not at least iii) in line with a forest farmer tradition of managing the forest farm in such way that it can be transferred to the next generation in an improved condition. However, with a new forest policy, calling for voluntary set asides by the forest owners, the traditional management idea principle is challenged. Based on previous research findings on small scale forest owners’ attitudes and behavior, and some new results from a resent Future Forest survey, I will problemize the concept of conservation (non-management) as opposite to culture (management). Further, the concept of forest owner/forest farmer will be examined and set in both a rural development, and a market (value chain) context
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