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Quantifying and easing conflicting goals between interest groups in natural resource planning

Year of publication

2019

Authors

Eyvindson, Kyle; Repo, Anna; Triviño, María; Pynnönen, Sari; Mönkkönen, Mikko

Abstract

Management of natural resources at the regional level is a compromise between a variety of objectives and interests. At the local level, management of the forests depends upon the ownership structure, with forest owners using their forests as they see fit. A potential conflict occurs if the forest owners’ management decisions are counter to the interests of society in general or the industry that relies on the forest resource as their raw material. We explore the intensity of this conflict at the regional level in several large boreal forest production landscapes. To explore the conflict, we investigate three main interest groups: (i) economically oriented forest owners; (ii) industry groups (focusing on maintaining an even timber supply); and (iii) a group representing general public interests (focusing on enhancing ecosystem services and biodiversity protection). The severity of conflicts differs between interest groups; we found a minor conflict between the economically oriented forest owners and industry and a severe conflict among general public interests and the other groups. By quantifying the conflicts, visualizing the impacts shared among interest groups, we anticipate that through shared discovery and understanding, forests can be managed to lessen the conflicts between interest groups.
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Organizations and authors

University of Helsinki

Pynnönen Sari

University of Jyväskylä

Repo Anna Orcid -palvelun logo

Triviño María Orcid -palvelun logo

Mönkkönen Mikko Orcid -palvelun logo

Eyvindson Kyle

Natural Resources Institute Finland

Repo Anna Orcid -palvelun logo

Eyvindson Kyle Orcid -palvelun logo

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Journal

Article type

Original article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Publication channel information

Volume

49

Issue

10

Pages

1233-1241

​Publication forum

53015

​Publication forum level

3

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

No

Self-archived

Yes

Other information

Fields of science

Environmental sciences; Forestry

Keywords

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Publication country

Canada

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

No

Co-publication with a company

No

DOI

10.1139/cjfr-2019-0026

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes