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- Poudyal, Mahesh, et al.
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Governance and Benefits Sharing in the Swedish Forest Commons: an Assessment of the Shareholder Satisfaction
- 2011
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Ingår i: Booklet series of the NRW state forestry commission. ; , s. 58-65
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Unlike forest commons in many other countries, within Europe and elsewhere, Swedish forest commons are for- med and organised in a particular way in that the parcels (or shares) of forestlands involved are privately owned but as commons they are jointly managed by forest pro- fessionals. Furthermore, shares in forest commons are considered as “set asides” of the private landholding (farm/forest) and thus cannot be owned or sold in isolation. This leaves little space for the shareholders to be ‘hands-on’ in the management of these commons, although they are involved in decision making through a management board they elect. Moreover, it has been claimed that the shareholders in the Swedish forest commons do not bear the costs (for management and governance) proportional to the benefits they receive from their commons. In this paper, we use data from a mail survey directed to resident shareholders in three of the major forest com- mons in Sweden (Jokkmokk, Tärna-Stensele, and Älvda- len) to assess their satisfaction on the governance and benefits sharing within their forest commons. This study shows that generally a significant majority of the share- holders in these three forest commons seem to be satis- fied with the status quo regarding the governance/ management of their commons and the benefits they accrue. However, women’s participation in most aspects of the forest commons seems to be significantly lower than their male counterpart leaving them benefiting less from their commons as a result.
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- Johansson, Kristina, et al.
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The Discursive Resistance of Men to Gender-equality Interventions : Negotiating “Unjustness”and “Unnecessity”in Swedish Forestry
- 2019
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Ingår i: Men and Masculinities. - : Sage Publications. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 22:2, s. 177-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article adds to the understanding of men’s discursive resistance in relation to gender-equality interventions at work. Using Swedish men forestry professionals as the empirical base, the result shows how discursive resistance were performative acts, part of the construction of the same gender-equality interventions and organizational contexts that they were perceived to describe. In this case, direct opposition to gender equality provided a limited discursive position and sets of logics available in practice. Instead, the possibilities to renegotiate gender-equality interventions as unjust and unnecessary required, we conclude that the industry’s ambition to hire and promote more women was perceived to have led to the use of affirmative action and the disruption of meritocratic principles and that the problems of gender equality were placed in the traditional forestry and among “prejudiced old men,” as oppose to the more “modern” and “women friendly” forestry of today.
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- Ficko, Andrej, et al.
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European private forest owner typologies : a review of methods and use
- 2019
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Ingår i: Forest Policy and Economics. - : Elsevier. - 1389-9341 .- 1872-7050. ; 99, s. 21-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The increasing diversity of non-industrial private forest owners (PFOs) in Europe has been recognized by policy makers and the forestry sector at large. Typologies of these owners have been developed to provide an understanding of the diversity of owners' attitudes, values, beliefs, management objectives and behaviour. We analyzed PFO typologies from 28 European countries published from 1985 to 2015 in peer-reviewed journals and grey literature with respect to 1) research approaches and methods used; 2) typology objectives and problems addressed; 3) policy and management recommendations given. Using an on-line questionnaire we asked the first authors of the most relevant publications to retrospectively assess 4) the use of their typologies in education, science and forest policy. Most of the 66 publications reviewed share the common objective of providing a better understanding of forest ownership. Typologies were also developed to address roundwood mobilization, delivery of public goods, forest management approaches, involvement in PFO associations and entrepreneurship. The most common methodological approach was quantitative where owners were grouped by k-means clustering into 2 to 6 types and labelled with various names. Most frequently used labels were Multiobjective owners, Recreationists, Investors, Farmers, Indifferent owners, Conservationists, Multifunctional owners and Self-employed owners. Policy implications remain vague. The typologies had mostly been used in teaching and occasionally by politicians, civil servants or stake-holders. Only a half of the typologies had a follow-up study or was updated over time by the authors. After decades of classifying PFOs, it seems necessary to explore the link between typologies and forest owners' overt behaviour.
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- Keskitalo, Carina, et al.
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Understanding the social context of monitoring
- 2023
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Ingår i: Monitoring Biodiversity : Combining Environmental and Social Data. - 9781032015934 ; , s. 218-228
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The previous chapters discussed the complexity involved in developing and combining methods for monitoring; this chapter considers how to understand different aspects in a broader social perspective. The chapter discusses scale, level; and sectoral context in relation to decision processes, based on, for instance, legislative and policy drivers of land use and land ownership and other stakeholders. A crucial focus in the chapter is placed on the notion that the social context of monitoring often cannot be understood by only looking at the local level. Drawing on cases from different land systems, the chapter illustrates how higher levels play a role. Examples in text boxes are, for instance, drawn from the Swedish case, in which less than 20 high-level actors determine much of the national forest land use. To make sense of this context, the chapter goes on to introduce the variety of social sciences quantitative and qualitative approaches that can be used to gain an understanding of land use on different levels, including methods illustrated in later chapters.
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- Lidestav, Gun
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Forests in common: Learning from diversity of community forest arrangements in Europe
- 2021
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Ingår i: AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 50, s. 448-464
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them inclusively. Building on methods to make sense of diversity, we use reflexive grounded inquiry in fifteen cases in Italy, Scotland, Slovenia and Sweden. Within four dimensions (forest, community, relationships between them, and relationships with wider society), we identify 43 subdimensions to describe them collectively. Our approach shows how European arrangements contribute to wider discourses of collective natural resource management. Both tradition and innovation in Europe inform options for environmental governance. Arrangements challenge the distinction between 'communities of place' and 'communities of interest', with implications for social and environmental justice. They exemplify multilevel environmental governance through both vertical and horizontal connections. Emerging from long histories of political and environmental pressures, they have a role in enhancing society's connection with nature and adaptive capacity.
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- Lidestav, Gun
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Individual Forest Owners in Context
- 2017
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Ingår i: Globalisation and Change in Forest Ownership and Forest Use : Natural Resource Management in Transition. - 9781137571151 ; , s. 57-95
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- Lidestav, Gun, et al.
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The impact of Swedish forest owners’ values and objectives on management practices and forest policy accomplishment
- 2023
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Ingår i: Small-scale Forestry. - : Springer Nature. - 1873-7617 .- 1873-7854. ; 22:3, s. 435-456
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish forestry policy principles rest on voluntarism and a mutual interest among forest owners, the industry, and the state that timber production continuously be kept at a high level at the same time as environmental goals are achieved. An estimated 313,000 small-scale forest owners own half of Sweden’s forestland, and thus their objectives and values, and how these impact their management behavior, are matters of national policy interest. From a survey targeting a random sample of small-scale Swedish forest owners (n = 652), we found that overall forest owners found consumption objectives to be more important than production objectives. In line with this, they perceived social values, such as recreation, to be more important than economic values. Yet, on an aggregate level, timber production goals were fulfilled. Further, most forest owners left some of their productive forest untouched and applied restoration management, which could be interpreted as either intentional or unintentional considerations of the environmental goals. However, the environmental goals were not met on a national level. It can therefore be concluded that the voluntariness of the current forest policy seems to work when supported by the market’s interest in and mechanism for timber production but fails when only “soft” instruments such as information campaigns, advisory services, and education are at hand to promote environmental goals. Additional economic incentives, such as payment schemes, might be required.
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- Poudyal, Mahesh, et al.
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Supporting community governance in boreal forests by introducing participatory GIS through Action Research
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Action Research. - 1861-1303 .- 1861-9916. ; 11, s. 236-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We use the case of Vilhelmina Upper Forest Common (VUFC) in northernSweden to test whether the introduction of a Participatory GeographicInformation System (PGIS) can increase shareholder engagement. Wetake an Action Research approach to introduce a PGIS as a tool to helpwith forest management plans, and as a tool for communication betweenmanagement and the shareholders. We found that the board and shareholderswere initially resistant to adopting PGIS. However, continued collaborationand engagement seem to have encouraged the board to be morepro-active in their communication with the shareholders, and also moretransparent regarding the management/governance of VUFC. We also findincreasing interest among previously passive shareholders to engage intheir forest common’s management.
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