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Family Forest Owners’ Changing Values and Other Service-Demand Drivers

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Two axioms of service-dominant logic (S-D logic) are that “the beneficiary is always a co-creator of value” and “value is always uniquely and phenomenologically determined by the beneficiary.” Therefore, to understand the application of S-D logic to family forestry it is imperative to understand drivers that are influencing family forest owners and in particular, their demographics, attitudes and behavior. In this chapter, we use the S-D logic framework to discuss the internal and external drivers impacting family forest owners’ values and the implications. We discuss drivers such as urbanization and changing values and lifestyles, afforestation and land use changes, restitution and privatization, forest land trade and inheritance, as well as relevant changes to the forest industry. Then we look at how these drivers influence owners’ demographics, values, objectives and behavior. Finally, we consider current service provision and future challenges from the S-D logic point of view.

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    Afforestation can also arise through the natural expansion/succession of forests typical on abandoned agricultural land.

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Karppinen, H., Ní Dhubháin, Á., Butler, B.J. (2019). Family Forest Owners’ Changing Values and Other Service-Demand Drivers. In: Hujala, T., Toppinen, A., J. Butler, B. (eds) Services in Family Forestry. World Forests, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28999-7_5

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