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Multi-level Planning and Conflicting Interests in the Forest Landscape

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This chapter describes and analyses overlapping planning structures and multi-level planning issues and how they affect current land use and management in the forest landscape. Forest land use in Sweden is based on a large proportion of privately owned forests with the primary purpose of producing timber for the forest industries. Nevertheless, the forests are also characterised by multiple uses and many stakeholders (economic as well as ecological and social) who express themselves and relate to forest management. In this chapter, we present a number of methods, both traditional and more recent, for managing multiple use of the forest landscape. These range from physical planning and the Swedish Right of Public Access to Natura 2000, forest certification, reindeer-husbandry plans, and scenario techniques.

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    The PEFC system, in turn, consists of many different national or regional forest certification schemes, including the Canadian Standards Association, American Tree Farm System, Malaysian Timber Certification System, and several others.

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    Here, the lowest-level objectives at the end of each branch in the hierarchy are called attributes and are used to measure how well different strategies perform in terms of a certain objective.

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  1. Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Olof Stjernström, Sabina Bergstén, Svante Karlsson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo & Örjan Pettersson

  2. Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Rein Ahas

  3. Department of Forest Resource Management; Division of Forest Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, Umeå, Sweden

    Jeannette Eggers, Tomas Lämås, Per Sandström & Karin Öhman

  4. NEPCon, Tartu, Estonia

    Hando Hain

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Stjernström, O. et al. (2017). Multi-level Planning and Conflicting Interests in the Forest Landscape. In: Keskitalo, E. (eds) Globalisation and Change in Forest Ownership and Forest Use. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57116-8_7

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