Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Vainio, Annukka; Paloniemi, Riikka

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2012.02.008

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“…In organising the discussions, we employed the semistructured "qualitative attitude approach" (cf. Vainio & Paloniemi 2012). The method can be called "future-oriented focus groups".…”

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Participation of second home owners and permanent residents in local decision making: the case of a rural village in Finland

Kietäväinen¹,

Rinne²,

Paloniemi³

et al. 2016

Fennia

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(2016). Participation of second home owners and permanent residents in local decision making: the case of a rural village in Finland. Fennia 194: 2, 152-167. ISSN 1798-5617. In Finland, there are almost 500,000 second homes and in some areas the number of second home owners exceeds that of permanent residents. Currently, second home owners are also spending more time in their second homes. If second home owners are not permanent residents, administration may exclude them from local institutions, and treat second home owners as only partial members of the community. It has been stated that municipal decision making and the role of the municipality as an actor in the local community should be broadened in order to strengthen democracy and the participation of its residents as a core of municipal self-administration. Hence, participating in communal decision making is mainly possible only for permanent residents. The issue is whether it is possible to change this situation via the municipalities' own reforms and state regulations. New municipal administration experiments have recently emerged in Finland. Here we study how the new local administrative model, the Communal District Committee, has affected local participation and local governance in a rural areas by exploring second home owners' opportunities to participate in local decision making and development processes. The data consists of documents, focus group discussions and a questionnaire. We used qualitative and quantitative methods in the data analysis. We found, on one hand, that permanent residents of villages recognise second home owners' hesitation to participate in local issues requiring planning and decision making. On the other hand, local-level communal decision making does not promote the participation of second home residents. On the basis of the findings of the study, we suggest that the municipal authorities should recognise the existence and importance of second home owners in the area, acknowledge them better in municipal plans and strategies, and offer them more resources and means to participate.

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“…In organising the discussions, we employed the semistructured "qualitative attitude approach" (cf. Vainio & Paloniemi 2012). The method can be called "future-oriented focus groups".…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participation of second home owners and permanent residents in local decision making: the case of a rural village in Finland

Kietäväinen¹,

Rinne²,

Paloniemi³

et al. 2016

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“…What is relevant here is the notion that stepping outside the own box seems to matter: while involving new forest owner groups and increasing use of conservation biological knowledge are the aspects that explain achievement in deliberation, not the trust in own institution that has been the standpoint in the practices before METSO (Primmer 2010). These findings encourage to appreciate the perspectives of new actors and actor groups, as well as to involve new types of knowledge in natural resource management (Saarikoski et al 2012;Vainio and Paloniemi 2012). Thus, the findings can be reconciled with the deliberative strand of forest conservation governance that is taking root in Finland.…”

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“…This is especially the case in Finnish forest management, where decision-making and management are based on expertise in forestry (Primmer 2010;Saarikoski et al 2012). For example, the diversity of forest owners and their views on forest have only recently been seen not as a resource but as a threat to national wood production (Siiskonen 2007) and accordingly the views aiming to combine biodiversity aspects in forestry have received only a minor societal position (Vainio and Paloniemi 2012). It has been difficult to combine participation of forestry authorities with other important actors due to the traditionally hierarchical organisations (Saarikoski et al 2012) and due to conflict-proneness and divergent views concerning forest use and conservation (Lindenmayer and Franklin 2003).…”

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Deliberation in cooperative networks for forest conservation

Borg

Paloniemi

2012

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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In this article, we discuss cooperative networks for forest conservation from the viewpoint of deliberation. We ask how deliberative processes are produced and what predicts deliberation in the cooperative networks for forest conservation that have been established for policy implementation as a part of the Finnish forest biodiversity programme METSO. We base our argument on both qualitative and quantitative material. In the qualitative study, we present two cooperative networks for forest biodiversity conservation in Finland. The results show that clear leadership, active and determined work for common goals and openness to actively engage new actors assist in creating deliberative processes in cooperative networks. In the quantitative study, we explore the perceptions of implementers of METSO programme about the prerequisites for achievement in deliberation. The results of a quantitative study support those of a qualitative one: involving new forest owner groups and including conservation-biological knowledge were connected to perceived achievement. Based on the findings, we argue that in order to become as deliberative and empowering a programme as it has potential for, METSO needs to expose its actions to a broader public, critique and debate, involve new collaborators actively and support integration of various types of knowledge.

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“…While the majority of farms in Finland own forest, around 20% of the Finnish population more broadly are also forest owners (Vainio and Paloniemi, 2012). Jones (2011: 160) argues that forests 'create powerful landscapes which can enclose the person, enclose whole communities, even nations' and in Finland, the forest has long been considered a key source of national well-being (Sarkki and Rönkä, 2012).…”

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‘More-than-human’ resilience(s)? Enhancing community in Finnish forest farms

Herman

2016

Geoforum

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Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Cited by 26 publications

References 41 publications

Participation of second home owners and permanent residents in local decision making: the case of a rural village in Finland

Participation of second home owners and permanent residents in local decision making: the case of a rural village in Finland

Deliberation in cooperative networks for forest conservation

‘More-than-human’ resilience(s)? Enhancing community in Finnish forest farms

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