Unfolding the organised irresponsibility: Ecosystem approach and the quest for forest biodiversity in Finland, Peru, and Russia

Hiedanpää, Juha; Kotilainen, Juha; Salo, Matti

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.007

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“…During the past decades in Finland, the main function of forests has been to grow trees in order to secure timber flow to forest industries (Hiedanpää et al 2011). However, as owners and their goals have diversified, it can be derived that forest ownership alone does not generate a shared purpose of practice or a strong unified identity.…”

Section: Defining Purposes For Future Communities Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing informal interaction and knowledge co-construction among forest owners

Hamunen¹,

Virkkula²,

Hujala³

et al. 2015

Silva Fenn.

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• Forest owners' own communities could complement the present expert-driven forestry extension.• Enhancing informal interaction between forest owners calls for sufficiently homogeneous reference groups and also new communication contexts.• New purposes of forest ownership and innovative forest management practices are suggested topics for novel owner communities.• Forest professionals may initiate these communities, but the continuity depends on the owners themselves. AbstractIt is a common concern that non-resident private forest owners are less able to make informed decisions regarding their forests. Moreover, the present guidance given by forest professionals is not reaching all owners. In this study, we suggest enhancing knowledge exchange among forest owners by increasing their mutual and informal interaction that could inspire them to co-construct new knowledge. The first objective is to identify present emerging activities that constitute knowledge exchange contexts (communities) for Finnish forest owners. The second objective is to discuss the challenges of current Finnish forest extension and their implications when introducing Communities of Practice as a complementary response to existing, yet insufficient, professional-led extension. Data consist of Finnish forest owners' and forest professionals' (n = 43) focus group interviews. The qualitative analysis was theoretically oriented followed by data-driven coding and grouping. According to the results, the role of expert-led encounters is strong in Finland and owners' opportunities for good mutual communication are rare. Informal communities exist mainly in the countryside among neighbouring owners and within families. To enhance knowledge sharing among owners, one needs to identify innovative topics and activities that would inspire owners to commit to their forest property and perform active silviculture. These communities would operate as creative learning environments allowing participation of different levels. When cultivating forest owners' communities it is important to consider actors' roles. Forest owners themselves are responsible for the functions and continuity of these communities, although forest professionals could also initiate new and sufficiently homogenous reference groups for the owners.

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Section: Defining Purposes For Future Communities Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing informal interaction and knowledge co-construction among forest owners

Hamunen¹,

Virkkula²,

Hujala³

et al. 2015

Silva Fenn.

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“…The previously mentioned forest cluster is also suggested to be homogeneous (Primmer and Wolf 2009). The goal of the forest cluster has traditionally concentrated on securing the timber production and employment (Tikkanen 2006), and a hegemony of growing trees and maximising the growth has even existed (Hiedanpää et al 2011). Nowadays, this is challenged by other uses of forests (Hiedanpää 2011).…”

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Forest owners’ social networks – possibilities to enhance knowledge exchange

Hamunen¹

2013

Diss. For.

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“…Chiefly, this was a response to international policy development, particularly related to the implementation of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity ratified by Peru in 1993(Hiedanpää et al, 2011Salo et al, 2011;Sears and Pinedo-Vasquez, 2011). Furthermore, it was also associated with the overall development in the forest sector sustainability requirements worldwide, including international goals established by e.g.…”

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“…We draw our case from Peruvian Amazonia, where the access to forests has been renegotiated in a profound forest sector reform (Smith et al, 2006;Hiedanpää et al, 2011;Sears and PinedoVasquez, 2011). The reform has been driven by a widespread concern about the forest sector's low efficiency and the environmental as well as social problems that the insufficiently organized and regulated selective logging has implied in the region.…”

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Control and intimacy in the Amazonian reality: Newspaper rhetoric on forest sector reform in Peru

Salo¹,

Puro²,

Knuuti³

2013

Land Use Policy

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Unfolding the organised irresponsibility: Ecosystem approach and the quest for forest biodiversity in Finland, Peru, and Russia

Cited by 24 publications

References 32 publications

Enhancing informal interaction and knowledge co-construction among forest owners

Enhancing informal interaction and knowledge co-construction among forest owners

Forest owners’ social networks – possibilities to enhance knowledge exchange

Control and intimacy in the Amazonian reality: Newspaper rhetoric on forest sector reform in Peru

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