An empirical model for forest landscape planning and its financial consequences for landowners

Sammanfattning

Despite well-formulated goals for environmental protection in the forestry sector, the biodiversity crisis remains. Protected habitats are often small, isolated and lack continuity. We studied forest planning at a landscape scale as a method to increase habitat connectivity, and improve conservation values whilst maintaining high levels of forest production. We assessed the financial impacts of landscape planning for the landowners, and present a fee-fund system to solve unequal burdens among them. As case studies, we used three landscapes along a latitudinal gradient in Sweden. The results demonstrate some variation between the landscapes in terms of the total cost for set asides and large differences in terms of the financial impact per landowner. Our conclusion is that forest landscape planning may be a way forward to improve conservation efforts, but given the variation in financial impacts, we propose to combine landscape planning with economic tools for compensation.

Nyckelord

Biodiversity; forest landscape planning; forest protection; financial impacts; connectivity

Publicerad i

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
2021, volym: 36, nummer: 7-8, sidor: 626-638
Utgivare: TAYLOR AND FRANCIS AS

SLU författare

• Bostedt, Göran

  • Institutionen för skogsekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• de Jong, Johnny

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Ekvall, Hans

  • Institutionen för skogsekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Hof, Anouschka

  • Institutionen för vilt, fisk och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Wageningen University

• Sjögren, Jörgen

  • Institutionen för vilt, fisk och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

SLU Centrum för biologisk mångfald, CBM

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald

UKÄ forskningsämne

Skogsvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2021.1998599

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/114542