The Biennial Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics meeting 2022

Room: Loke

15.45 - 17.00 Arrive and check-in

coffee is served

17.00 - 17.30 Welcome address

17.30 - 18.15 Sören Wibe Prize seminar

Room: Loke

Cooperative bargaining to manage invasive species in jurisdictions with public and private lands

Prize winners:

Shyamani D. Siriwardena, Kelly M. Cobourn, Gregory S. Amacher and Robert G. Haight

Presenters: Kelly Cobourn and Gregory Amacher

18.15 - 21.00 Mingle dinner

8.30 - 9.15 Keynote: Scenarios for the European forest sector in the turbulent world

Professor Maarit Kallio, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

9.30 - 10.30 Break-out session I

Each presentation lasts 15 minutes and 5 minutes for question

Session 1:1 - Policy and forest ecosystem services

Room: Loke

Moderator: Francisco Aguilar

Sustainability as a Policy Goal: Perceptions of Its Application to Finnish Forest Policy

Teija Kanniainen, University of Eastern Finland

Assessing socio-economic indicators of the Swedish forest sector

Ronju Ahammad, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Policy and forest ecosystem services – the cases of Catalonia (Spain), Estonia, Grisons (Switzerland), and Hesse/Thuringia (Germany)

Ester Hertegård, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Session 1:2 - Multiple forest land use

Room: Mimer

Moderator: Jeanette Eggers

Optimal grazing exclosure period for optimum herbaceous biomass production in the highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia 

Meley Mekonen Rannestad, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Adapted forest management to balance reindeer husbandry and wood production in Northern Sweden 

Jeannette Eggers, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Session 1:3 - Perspective on forests

Room: Embla

Moderator: Anders Roos

Kenyan youth’s perspectives on forests – an exploratory study

Anders Roos, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Interest groups’ criticism towards NFI methodology and data availability and its influence on national forest policy

Madis Raudsaar, Estonian University of Life Sciences

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.20 Break-out session II

Each presentation lasts 15 minutes and 5 minutes for questions

Session 2:1 - Multi-story buildings and preferences

Room: Loke

Moderator: Anne Toppinen

Exploring consumer housing choices in new wooden multistory buildings

Jaakko Jussila, University of Helsinki

Factors underpinning prospective public preferences toward living in multi-storey wood buildings

Dohun Kim, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

The effects of land use governance mechanisms in Finnish and Swedish municipalities on local wooden multi-storey construction activities

Katja Lähtinen, Natural Resources Institute Finland 

Land use planning and the diffusion of wooden multistory buildings: Lessons from a doctoral dissertation

Florencia Franzini, University of Helsinki

Session 2:2 - Data, forest planning and digitalization

Room: Mimer

Moderator: Kyle Eyvindson

Evaluating the costs of relying on inaccurate forest inventory information: an application of stochastic programming

Olha Nahorna, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Dynamic treatment unit in forest planning improves economic performance of forestry over stand based planning 

Pär Wilhelmsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Are unmanned ground vehicles ready to work in clear-cut areas?

Priit Vellak, University of Life Sciences

Gamifying forest owners’ decision support services –present and future applications

Sari Pynnönen, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Session 2:3 - Forest ecosystem services, tradeoffs and synergies

Room: Embla

Moderator: Dianne Staal Wästerlund

Resilience-enabling elements and trade-offs along the forest-based value chains: view on policy aspects

Blasius Schmid, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 

Trade-offs and synergies between multiple objectives in ecosystem services from the Norwegian forest sector

Abbas Nabhani, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

When a standing forest has a value…          

Per Kristian Rørstad, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

12.20 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.10 Break-out session III

Each presentation lasts 15 minutes and 5 minutes for question

Session 3:1 – Multi-story buildings and business opportunities

Room: Loke

Moderator: Anders Roos

To build with wood or renovate? Findings from a citizen survey in Finland

Anne Toppinen, University of Helsinki           

Policy analysis for reclaimed wood use in the construction sector of Norway: Highlighting opportunities, barriers and policy gaps for a multi-phase transformation to circular construction

Shumaila Khatri, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Sustainable business models in the wooden multistory construction sector – what are the key components? 

Emil Nagy, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences       

Retrofitting urban areas with wood: businesses contributing to shared value co-creation

Anne Viljanen, University of Helsinki

Session 3:2 – Forest long-term planning

Room: Mimer

Moderator: Ola Eriksson

Moderation and mediation in collaborative governance platforms: the case of Estonia Forestry Development Plan           

Meelis Teder, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Forest impact assessment for Sweden - a scenario analysis for 2020-2120 

Andreas Eriksson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Sustainable Forestry in Finland: Exploring pathways towards 2035 and beyond

Teija Kanniainen, University of Eastern Finland

Regional characteristics of municipal land-use planning. A regional innovation system appoirach in Finland and Sweden

Atte Koskivaara, University of Helsinki

Session 3:3 – Economic effect, climate, and forestry

Room: Embla

Moderator: Peichen Gong

Impacts of biodiversity and carbon policies on Norway’s forest management and industry competitiveness   

Lucas Nahuel Lopez, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

The quantification of harvest leakage and its economic effect on the forest industry in North Europe 

Junhui Hu, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

A new look at quantifying leakage in voluntary US forest carbon offset projects

Gregory Latta, University of Idaho

Does expanding wood use in construction and textile markets contribute to climate change mitigation? Case Finland.         

Elias Hurmekoski, University of Helsinki

15.10 - 15.40 Coffee

15.40 – 17.10 Breakout session IV

Each presentation lasts 15 minutes and 5 minutes for question

Session 4:1 - Forests and markets

Room: Loke

Moderator: Ritva Toivonen

On reconfiguring value creation logic of the forest sector in the changing business environment         

Anu Laakkonen, University of Eastern Finland

A framework for assessing the resilience of demand for forest goods and services

Marie Lautrup, University of Copenhagen

European roundwood market resilience in the era of natural disturbances

Elias Hurmekoski, University of Helsinki

Forest industries in regional peripheries

Maija Halonen, University of Eastern Finland and Linda Lundmark, Umeå University

Session 4:2 - Forest planning

Room: Mimer

Moderator: Ola Eriksson              

How is hierarchical forest planning affected by a combination of uncertain information and contradicting goals        

Patrik Ulvdal, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Reviewing the discrepancies between biodiversity assessment in forest planning and in ecology    

Juliette Hunault-Fontbonne, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Does forest management zoning efficiently provide landscape multifunctionality?

Kyle Eyvindson, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Evaluating long-term forest sector strategies: Insights and pitfalls

Ola Eriksson, Linnaeus University

Session 4:3 - Forest owners and economic assessment

Room: Embla

Moderator: Camilla Widmark    

Landowners’ opportunity costs when engaging in forest management

Hanne K. Sjølie, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Economic assessment of selective felling in Estonian forest management

Paavo Kaimre, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Analysing success of cross-boundary collaboration initiatives and practices in family forests of Finland and the United States

Teppo Hujala, University of Eastern Finland

18.30 - Conference dinner

Folkets hus (same where we had lunch)

gather in the first floor 18.30 (just inside the swing door) for joint picture

In-conference excursion

07.50 gather downtown bus at Norrlandsoperan

07.55 bus leave

8.15 Visit Komatsu Forest

"Forest machine manufacturing in the future"

visit new factory

11.00 Visit SLU

Engage young persons in forests 

Remote sensing and forest data management

Field research

Heureka and forest modeling

Forest economics department

14.00 Visit Hamptjärnsstugan

Visit to popular recreation site in urban forests

Ola Söderlund talks about urban forests and recreation

Presentation by Prof. Peichen Gong - "Increasing carbon sequestration to achieve net zero emissions of GHGs – Forestry measures and policy instruments".

16.45 at the latest back downtown. 

8.30 - 9.15 Keynote: European forest policy between old interests, changing values and new urgencies – pathways for the future

Professor Georg Winkel, Wageningen

Room: Loke - online session

9.30 - 11.20 Break-out sessions V

(Coffee break included)

Session 5:1 - Carbon, climate, and forestry

Room: Loke

Moderator: Teppo Hujala

Carbon pricing systems in the forest sector: a review of modelling approaches  

Tomke Honkomp, Thünen-Institute of Forestry

Non-industrial private forest owners’ preferences for voluntary permanent forest conservation          

Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, University of Helsinki

Online presentation

Session 5:3 - Sustainability and forestry      

Room: Embla

Moderator: Francisco Aguilar

Sustainable development in forest owners’ associations - corporate sustainability and cooperative identity  

Anna Thorning, Mid Sweden University

Decision-making support for forest ecosystem services

Camilla Widmark, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Coffee break 10.10 – 10.40

Session 5:4 – Carbon, climate, and forestry

Room: Loke

Moderator: Teppo Hujala

Preferences for climate adaptive forest management practices underpinned by the self-construction of climate change

Dohun Kim, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Carbon mitigation payments to manage forest for climate change           

Andreas Stephen, Linnaeus University

Session 5:5 - Sustainability and forestry

Room: Mimer

Moderator: Jette Bredahl Jacobsen

What are the strongest influencing drivers on forest area development using Environmental Kuznets Curve and Forest Transition Hypothesis?         

Julia Tandetzki, Thünen-Institute of Forestry,

Using a multisite travel cost study to assess outdoor recreational values

Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen

Session 5:6 - Sustainability and forestry

Room: Embla

Moderator: Hanne K. Sjølie

Gender differences in job experiences and satisfaction in the Norwegian forest sector

Hanne K. Sjølie, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Perceptions on strategic foresight among the SMEs in the Finnish forest-based sector

Anu Laakkonen, University of Helsinki

11.20 - 11.40 Honorary talk

Room: Loke - online session

The optimal rotation with increasing environmental values, declining discount rate and increasing threat to crop

Collin Price

11.40 - 11.55 Closing session and General Assembly (GA)

Room: Loke

Agenda:

1. open meeting

2. PhD awards

3. Election of board for period 2023-2024

4. Any other business

11.55 -  Lunch

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Fly in to Umeå Airport (with SAS, Norwegian or BRA).
Take the train (SJ) that stops at Campus, Östra Station.
Take the boat (Wasaline) from Vaasa Finland and then a bus to downtown Umeå.