The most important measure in addressing the forest ownership/land use rights market are the creation of forest land trade centers (FTC), which are established to facilitate the transfer of forest lands in China. The aim of this paper is to analyze the implementation, bottleneck, opportunity,...

This proceedings contains 26 articles and 23 abstracts which were grouped into four general topics, viz. business economics of forestry and forest management planning (6 papers and 9 abstracts), forest policy (8 papers and 7 abstracts), forest industry and forest products markets (8 papers and a...

The volume comprises 18 papers, dealing with the application of economics in forest resource management, the wood processing industry and the forest products markets. Within these fields, many different subjects are treated in relation to use of forests and, to some extent, other natural resources. ...

Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) tools assist the decision-maker (DM) in selecting an appropriate forest plan among specified alternatives. The selection of appropriate criteria to compare the alternatives is related to the scales of planning and the availability of appropriate inventory...

A company needs to know what it knows and how to take care of this knowledge. The way forest knowledge is handled within a forest company is a means to turn knowledge into a source of competitive advantage. Forest data and its information are important parts of the forest planning. The aim of this...

The Finnish Forest Research Institute has carried out monitoring surveys on Finnish family forest owners since the 1970s. The most recent survey data was collected at the beginning of the year 2009. The mail survey consisted of 13,000 of a total 300,000 family forest holdings over 5 hectares of...

Taking responsibility refers to balancing economic, social, and environmental concerns. Based on a short literature review about corporate responsibility and research about small scale forest owners this paper discusses small scale forest owners' responsibilities for achieving a true sustainable ...

Scandinavian countries have a rich tradition of studying the forest owner, from the early 1970s' recognition of the human factor in wood production, to the current focus on exploring the experienced value and sense-making of forests to owners. An increasingly frequent means of analysis has been the ...

A basic criterion for the success of sustainable forest management (SFM) is the ability to assess and monitor the conditions and derived benefits of forest assets on which environmental policies should respond. However, it is inherently difficult to quantify these assets and the status and...

Literature assessing the quantity and quality of voluntary social and environmental reporting has shown critical reflections regarding the quality and reliability, the (largely) qualitative nature of disclosure with lack of measurability, credibility or comparability, and information being biased...