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Potential Allowable Cut of Finland Using the AHP to Model Landowners’ Strategic Decision Making

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The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making

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This paper analyses the potential allowable cut of Finland based on nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners’ choices as to timber management strategies. Alternative timber management strategies were generated, and the choices and factors affecting the preference of strategies by NIPF landowners were studied. Timber management strategy choices were determined by maximising the utility functions of the NIPF landowners. The parameters of the utility functions were estimated using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The level of the potential allowable cut was compared to cutting budgets based on the 7th and 8th national forest inventories (NFI7 and NFI8), to combined private forestry plans, and to the actual harvest from nonindustrial private forests. The potential allowable cut was calculated using the same MELA system as has been used in the calculation of the national cutting budget. The potential allowable cut defined in the study was 19% higher than the average of the actual harvest during the years 1989–1994. Correspondingly, the potential allowable cut defined in the present study was 13% lower than the NFI8-based greatest sustained allowable cut for the 1990s. Using the method presented in this study, which is based on choices of timber management strategies, regular cutting budgets can be calculated more realistically than before.

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    Mauno Pesonen

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  1. USDA Forest service, Southern Research station, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Daniel L. Schmoldt

  2. Kannus Research Station, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Kannus, Finland

    Jyrki Kangas

  3. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Guillermo A. Mendoza

  4. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland

    Mauno Pesonen

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Pesonen, M. (2001). Potential Allowable Cut of Finland Using the AHP to Model Landowners’ Strategic Decision Making. In: Schmoldt, D.L., Kangas, J., Mendoza, G.A., Pesonen, M. (eds) The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9799-9_11

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