People’s outdoor behavior and norm based on the Right of Public Access: a questionnaire survey in Sweden

Saito, Haruo; Mitsumata, Gaku; Bergius, Niclas; Shimada, Daisaku

doi:10.1080/13416979.2022.2123301

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“…In Sweden, land use on NIPF-ownership is similar to large company ownership and strongly dominated by wood biomass yield based on systematic rotation forestry (e.g., Jonsson, et al 2019). In parallel, other important values and land use interests exists, such as indigenous Sami people reindeer husbandry in northern Sweden (Pape & Löffler 2012), recreation, tourism and other interests associated with the public right of access (Saito et al 2023; Haukeland et al 2023), and hunting (Neumann et al 2022). With other land uses and market chains expanding on forestland, e.g.…”

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The contribution of small protected areas to the big picture of forest conservation and restoration in Sweden

Svensson,

Lopez-Peinado,

Jonsson

et al. 2024

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In forest regions worldwide, industrial forestry has left fragments of natural forests behind. This challenges biodiversity conservation and calls for ecological restoration for sustainable forest management and conservation. The functionality of protected areas need to be improved and forest ecosystems set in a state that better favors biodiversity, resilience and provisioning of ecosystem services. Sweden contributes a substantial share of the European forests, with dominance of non-industrial forest ownership and extensive forestry footprint, and hence with immediate need for advanced conservation and restoration. Protection through voluntary nature conservation agreements and regulated biotope protection areas exists since the 1990s, with schemes involving economic compensation to landowners to facilitate conservation and restoration. Across entire Sweden and all ecoregions, we assessed their accumulated capacity over a 30-year period, including forest types protected, type of restoration management, rotation intervals, and selection of tree species. These nearly 14,000 different areas covering over 70,000ha are small, ranging in size from 5ha but rarely larger than 20ha. Their contribution is important, particularly in south Sweden with low and fragmented forest cover among many different owners. Active restoration dominates over passive set asides, coniferous forest types are less represented than more rare forest types, many different tree species are favored, and different restoration types occur but with few types dominating. In recognizing their critical importance, we find that the practices are narrow and repetitive, and that a greater restoration diversification is needed. The decreasing trend in protection is alarming since these contribute key forest type representativeness and functionality.

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The contribution of small protected areas to the big picture of forest conservation and restoration in Sweden

Svensson,

Lopez-Peinado,

Jonsson

et al. 2024

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“…Furthermore, the Swedish right of public access to land outside private housing properties and arable land is an important traditional customary rule (Sandell and Fredman 2010) and is vital to many businesses (Andersson Cederholm and Sjöholm 2021). The same can be argued for hunting rights (Saito et al 2023). Taken together, this makes the fairness aspects of onshore wind power expansion even more spatially complex (Avila 2018, Bjärstig et al 2022.…”

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Wind power distribution across subalpine, boreal, and temperate landscapes

Svensson,

Neumann,

Bjärstig

et al. 2023

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Onshore wind power is increasingly expanding to meet global and national goals to increase renewable, clean, and fossilfree energy production. In many countries and regions, however, historical and current land use is extensive, and the expansion of wind power has to be well-tuned to avoid risking irreversible legacy losses of existing and traditional land uses, landscape values, and cultures. Hence, assessments of the siting premises of current and forecasted expansion of wind power are strongly needed as a basis for sustainable planning. We present a study from alpine to temperate biomes in Sweden, where an ambitious onshore wind power expansion strategy has been put in place and will result in Swedish landscapes that are typified by wind power. We explored the existing legal frameworki.e., the national interest for wind power according to the Swedish Environmental Code-concerning the spatial interaction with other national interests for nature conservation, landscape values, and other land uses, and the land cover, landowner, and formally protected areas distribution within wind power sites and in their proximity. We found that the national interest framework does not provide sufficient guidance for locating wind power to avoid spatial overlap with conflicting interests and values. Furthermore, our analysis revealed that wind power is located mainly in forest-dominated landscapes, and on lands where private forest companies are the dominant owners but where the proportion of public and non-industrial private ownership increases in the near surroundings. Finally, we found that large areas of formally protected areas are within the proximate areas influenced by wind power. As an extensive onshore wind power expansion is already going on, and an even more extensive expansion is projected, the ways forward toward a sustainable wind power expansion calls for integrated landscape planning approaches that are based on comprehensive assessments of existing interests and values.

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“…Some Scandinavian studies have proved via surveys that the foraging of mushrooms, wild herbs, and wild berries is a popular recreational activity, especially among older people, profoundly attached to a traditional lifestyle [3,46]. Wild products are generally harvested for self-consumption, and harvesting is considered a community right, never questioned by landowners [4]. On the contrary, the younger urban population is less attracted to harvesting activities, and prefers walking, trekking, and camping [33,47,48].…”

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“…In addition, the open access to wild products, such as mushrooms and wild herbs, and to the residuum of agricultural products lost in harvesting, guaranteed a minimum level of sustenance to the poor in times of famine. In some northern European countries, primarily Sweden and Finland, the right to pick berries and mushrooms is considered part of the Scandinavian lifestyle and is regulated under the Right of Public Access [3,4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A topical issue, then, is the analysis of the best practices these communities have established to reconcile the rights of users and the conservation of the natural resources they govern. According to theoretical models of the use of the commons [8][9][10][11][12], there are significant examples of how some communities have succeeded in establishing a balance between the exploitation of the commons and the preservation of the surrounding environment while respecting the paradigm of sustainable resource use 4 . In addition, the success of these communities in governing common natural resources depends on the compromise solution they can find between private use and public interest.…”

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Common-Property Resource Exploitation: A Real Options Approach

D’Alpaos

Moretto

Rosato

2023

Land

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Agricultural land and forestlands can have multiple uses and generate multiple sources of utility. Although landowners benefit from most of them, society can benefit from others because of their intrinsic characteristics as common-property resources and customary practice. In many Italian territories, the picking of mushrooms is allowed on privately owned agricultural land and in forests. The management of these resources is challenging due to the emerging conflicts between landowners and users. In addition, the pressure exerted by users gives rise to issues on stock preservation, thus contributing to putting biodiversity at risk in contexts already heavily jeopardized by modern agriculture. Through the years, regulation established the primacy of the landowner’s right, introduced a permit fee for users, and set limits on the resource stock to be collected daily. Nonetheless, the relationship between public and private interests in common-property resource exploitation is still controversial. In this paper, we investigate and model a right holder’s decision whether to exploit a common-property resource according to their actual status of being an actual or potential user. The model is developed within the real options valuation framework. In detail, we investigate the entry/exit decision on the exploitation of the resource by considering the uncertainty that affects the resource stock, the entry/exist costs, and the number of rival users.

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People’s outdoor behavior and norm based on the Right of Public Access: a questionnaire survey in Sweden

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

The contribution of small protected areas to the big picture of forest conservation and restoration in Sweden

The contribution of small protected areas to the big picture of forest conservation and restoration in Sweden

Wind power distribution across subalpine, boreal, and temperate landscapes

Common-Property Resource Exploitation: A Real Options Approach

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