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A Scientific Approach to the Densification Debate in Bergen Centre in Norway

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Norway
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land ownership
The municipality of Bergen in Norway aims to densify fifty per cent of new housing within the city’s central parts. The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation ordered and financed an investigation to be carried out by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and the consulting firm Asplan Viak to give research-based input to the densification strategy debate in Bergen. This article demonstrates how the Space Syntax method can be applied to urban densification strategies in urban planning and policy making.
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Assessing the Impacts of Land-Use Zoning Decisions on the Supply of Forest Ecosystem Services

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Finland
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
land-use planning
Research Highlights: The informed decisions on land use require assessment of the impacts of these decisions on the supply of different ecosystem services. Background and Objectives: Scenario modeling can be used to provide harmonized and quantitative information on the impacts of various zoning decisions on the provision of various ecosystem services. In this study, we explored the effects of land-use zoning decisions on the provision of roundwood and energy wood, carbon stock of living tree components, berry yields, scenic beauty and recreation.
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Determinants of Nonindustrial Private Forest Owners’ Willingness to Harvest Timber in Norway

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Norway
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
In Norway, 84% of the productive forest is privately owned, and these forests dominate the supply of timber to industries. However, during last 80 years, annual forest growth has seen a substantial upsurge while annual timber harvest has been rather stable, generating an increasing potential for timber supply. In this study, we provide new insights to better understand Norwegian non-industrial private forest owners’ timber harvesting decisions.
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Family Forest Owners’ Perception of Management and Thinning Operations in Young Dense Forests: A Survey from Sweden

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Sweden
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land tenure
Family forest owners (FFOs) own 48% of Sweden’s productive forest land and are responsible for 59% of the annual gross felling. They are thus important suppliers of raw materials to the forest industry and the energy sector. Environmental goals on the national and international level promote an increased use of renewable resources in order to replace fossil-based fuels, but since the current supply of forest products is already fully utilized by the industry, there is a need to find new types of biomass assortment.
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Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, United States of America, Europe
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
farmland
forestry
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we combined scientific and technical knowledge to evaluate nine environmental pressures in terms of ecosystem services in European farmland and assessed the carbon storage potential of suitable agroforestry systems, proposed by regional experts.
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Technical and social knowledge discontinuities in the multi-objective management of private forests in Finland

Land Use Policy Volume 88

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2019
Finland
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
private forests
research
Managing forests sustainably for multiple objectives requires multi-faceted socio-technical knowledge. This study explores the challenges of using knowledge within social and technical knowledge systems in decision-making about and the management of privately-owned forests in Finland. We define the technical knowledge system as the collection of standardized forms of knowledge and the IT systems supporting their storage and distribution. The social knowledge system consists of people who use and generate knowledge, as well as the societal norms that regulate their actions.
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Forestry Reporting Requests by FAO

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2019
Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, Portugal, Netherlands, Lebanon, France, Slovakia, Spain, Chile, Guatemala, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Finland, Thailand, New Zealand, Morocco, Italy, Hungary, Norway
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Given its wide scope on the work on forests, FAO requests information from its member countries in many different ways, using various reporting formats and questionnaires. The collected information is used to produce several outputs such as databases, overviews, reports, case-studies and other analyses. Below the flow of information from countries to FAO is sorted in two main categories: 1. Regular reporting requests and 2. Other reporting requests. The regular reporting requests contain information regularly reported by countries to FAO.
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Sustainable financing for forest and landscape restoration - the role of public policy makers

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2019
Algeria, Indonesia, Costa Rica, United States of America, Rwanda, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Tanzania, Norway, Morocco, Ghana, Tunisia, Lebanon, China, Brazil, Canada
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
land degradation
Public policy makers from developed and developing countries, at all levels (national, regional, local), have the opportunity to take leadership as FLR financing champions. Even without controlling private capital, they can support resource mobilization in a number of ways This publication shares the experiences of some initiatives from around the world which public policy makers can learn from and adapt.