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

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...

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Published inScandinavian journal of forest research Vol. 36; no. 7-8; pp. 626 - 638
Main Authors Bostedt, Göran, de Jong, Johnny, Ekvall, Hans, Hof, Anouschka R., Sjögren, Jörgen, Zabel, Astrid
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 17.11.2021
Subjects
Biodiversity
connectivity
Economics
financial impacts
forest landscape planning
forest protection
Forest Science
nationalekonomi
Skogsvetenskap
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0282-7581
1651-1891
1651-1891
DOI:10.1080/02827581.2021.1998599