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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University of Helsinki
Pynnönen Sari
Publication type
Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Journal
Article type
Original article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A1 Journal article (refereed), original researchPublication channel information
Parent publication name
Volume
49
Issue
10
Pages
1233-1241
ISSN
Publication forum
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