Comparing the profiles, objectives and behaviours of new and longstanding non-industrial private forest owners in Quebec, Canada

Côté, Mélissa; Généreux-Tremblay, Ariane; Gilbert, Diane; Gélinas, Nancy

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.01.017

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“…Female forest owners with their more pro-environmental mindset as well as their interest in softer forest values could, in particular, promote sustainability issues in the sector as well as a combination of multiple benefits of the forest ecosystem. Regarding communication issues, an interesting future research theme could focus on forest owner social media use and behaviour as new forest owners, in particular, seek information actively from different media (Häggqvist et al 2014;Côté et al 2017); this is a relatively unexplored research topic. Because of the exploratory nature of the studies reported in articles III and IV, several unanswered research questions for future studies have arisen based on the results.…”

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“…Moreover, forest ownership could be researched from the lifestyle perspective. As Côté et al (2017) have indicated, forest ownership can also be seen as a lifestyle choice. From the forest organization point of view, it would be very interesting to conduct research on the perceptions of the companies, for example, how much and in what ways forest owners or other customers are involved in NSD processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy

Häyrinen¹

2019

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thank you all for the discussions and memorable moments during the process. I gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the research projects 'FP-Serve' and 'FORTUNE', funded by Business Finland (formerly TEKES-the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation) and 'FORESCOF', funded by the Academy of Finland. I am also grateful for receiving both the young researchers' grant and the dissertation completion grant from the University of Helsinki, as well as the research grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. For the funding of my conference trips abroad, I want to thank the Finnish Society of Forest Science, the former Graduate School in Forest Sciences (GSForest), the Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources (AGFOREE) and my research projects. My sincere thanks go to pre-examiners Gun Lidestav and Erlend Nybakk for reviewing my thesis. A warm thanks also to Pekka Ripatti for agreeing to be my opponent. I would like to give special acknowledgements to the anonymous forest owner respondents whose time and interest made this dissertation possible. Also, thanks to the anonymous referees for reviewing our articles and to the language reviewers for making our articles and my dissertation more fluent. To my friends, thank you all for your loving friendship and for sharing in the great moments of my life. Thanks to my parents, Ilkka and Arja, my brother, Kalle, and my sister, Iida, for always helping and supporting me in all aspects of life. Thanks also to my extended family, Pekka, Kasper, Laura and the baby boy, for your great company. Finally, my deepest gratitude go to Jaakko for always believing in me and being there for me; and to my wonderful children, Elle and Rosa, for always bringing laughter and joy to my life. Helsinki, June 2019 Liina Häyrinen Häyrinen L. (2019). Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy. Dissertationes Forestales 280. 54 p.

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Section: Future Research and Conclusionmentioning

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Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy

Häyrinen¹

2019

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“…Maintaining the assumption that forest management will continue to be perceived as a mixture of maintenance, care for the ecosystem, and economics, we expect a gradual shift from maintenance management toward ecosystem-centered management. The downward trend in the number of family farms and increasing education of landowners [34][35][36] suggest that the rest of the developed world will have similar trajectories to that forecast for Slovenia. The noticeable difference, however, is that countries differ in their support for innovative business models and that forest policy might be much more anticipative in certain segments of the forest value chain [37].…”

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Private Forest Owners’ Social Economic Profiles Weakly Influence Forest Management Conceptualizations

Ficko

2019

Forests

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Although several private forest owner studies have dealt with how private forest owners understand forest management, little is known about the determinants of specific forest management concepts. The study expands previous latent variable models of the perception of forest management by European private forest owners by looking at how age, income, education, annual cut, and holding size and type influence specific understandings of forest management. We applied a multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) structural equation model on a representative sample of 754 private forest owners from Slovenia. The MIMIC model confirmed the influence of six covariates on three concepts of forest management: the maintenance concept, the ecosystem-centered concept, and the economics-centered concept. The strongest determinants of perception were education and holding type. The maintenance concept was predominantly associated with less educated older full-time or part-time farmers working on smaller family farms and doing regular cuts. The perception of forest management as an economics-centered activity increased with increased education and dependence on income from intensive cuts. The ecosystem-centered concept was most strongly associated with younger, better-educated owners with smaller holdings and, surprisingly, not to non-farmers but to small-scale family farmers. However, the proportion of the variance of latent variables explained by the six covariates was low, ranging from 2.4% to 5.1%. Taking into account the influence of education and holding type on private forest owners’ perception of forest management, by increasing the level of education and raising the proportion of absentee owners in Europe, we expect a shift from the maintenance concept toward either an economics-centered or ecosystem-oriented concept for forest management. Despite the weak influence of private forest owners’ social economic profiles on forest management conceptualizations, governments should be aware of the trend and actively seek to prevent the polarization of forest management concepts.

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“…It is somewhat surprising that the development of technological support services to FFOs has not gone further. In the future, the demand for more information may also continue to grow as younger generations have been found to have a greater desire and need for information since they often are less familiar with forestry compared to previous owners [30,44]. To aid this development, future research could focus on how to utilize the large amount of data produced by modern logging machines in the development of new types of information services to FFOs.…”

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Family Forest Owners’ Expectations and Perceptions of Service Quality in Timber Transactions in Sweden

Kronholm

Wästerlund

2021

Forests

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In Sweden, 59% of the annual gross felling takes place in forests owned by family forest owners (FFOs). Forest companies conduct thousands of timber transactions with FFOs each year, and, most often, harvesting services are provided to them as part of the deal. Delivering services that meet the FFOs’ expectations of quality is important for any organization that wants FFOs to be loyal suppliers. The objectives of this study are to clarify FFOs’ service quality expectations in timber transactions, show how well forest companies meet these expectations, and identify factors that may influence FFOs’ quality assessments. Data were collected through a survey sent out to 973 FFOs, with a response rate of 43% (n = 418). The results show that, on average, FFOs perceived that the quality of the services delivered in relation to their latest timber transaction met their expectations on 2 out of 14 quality features: modern equipment (e.g., forest machines) and staff’s courtesy towards the FFO. The study concludes that skilled and service-minded employees are highly important for maintaining good relationships with FFOs and that forest companies may have a lot to gain by improving communication and taking the interests of the FFOs into greater consideration.

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Comparing the profiles, objectives and behaviours of new and longstanding non-industrial private forest owners in Quebec, Canada

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy

Finnish forest owner objectives as indicators for a diversifying use of forests on the road to a bioeconomy

Private Forest Owners’ Social Economic Profiles Weakly Influence Forest Management Conceptualizations

Family Forest Owners’ Expectations and Perceptions of Service Quality in Timber Transactions in Sweden

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