Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia
Private forest owners are increasingly responsible for providing an extensive range of goods and services from their forests, as there are around 100,000 forest owners in Estonia. In order to support forest owners in providing these services, the state has continuously backed the forestry sector and...
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| author | Põllumäe Priit Lilleleht Ando Korjus Henn |
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| description | Private forest owners are increasingly responsible for providing an extensive range of goods and services from their forests, as there are around 100,000 forest owners in Estonia. In order to support forest owners in providing these services, the state has continuously backed the forestry sector and established a public-private partnership with forest owners’ associations as well as their umbrella organisations and cooperatives. The aim of this paper is to identify the service and information needs of private forest owners in the context of this established support system. Using a survey sample of 757 respondents, we found that in regard to informational needs more focus should be put on forest management activities, i.e. on available information about service providers’ contacts, prices, options and principles for selling harvesting rights and timber. Furthermore, joint timber sales as a service should be further developed and focused on. While forest owners ranked highly both the information about financial support and the specific measures, they found the system sometimes too complicated. Both in terms of information and service importance-performance, forest owners indicated certification as a low-priority topic. Whilst interest representation in policy processes was indicated as a very important service, its performance was rated quite modestly indicating slight dissatisfaction with the current arrangements. There are also several socio-demographic attributes of forest owners that influence their needs for information and services about forest management. However, a better understanding of these attributes might help develop the system further. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4c5a92ec2f544a958e2a957321678b852022-12-21T21:23:21ZengSciendoMetsanduslikud Uurimused1736-87232019-12-0171110011910.2478/fsmu-2019-0015Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in EstoniaPõllumäe Priit0Lilleleht Ando1Korjus Henn2Chair of Forest Management Planning and Wood Processing Technologies, Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006Tartu, EstoniaChair of Forest Management Planning and Wood Processing Technologies, Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006Tartu, EstoniaChair of Forest Management Planning and Wood Processing Technologies, Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006Tartu, EstoniaPrivate forest owners are increasingly responsible for providing an extensive range of goods and services from their forests, as there are around 100,000 forest owners in Estonia. In order to support forest owners in providing these services, the state has continuously backed the forestry sector and established a public-private partnership with forest owners’ associations as well as their umbrella organisations and cooperatives. The aim of this paper is to identify the service and information needs of private forest owners in the context of this established support system. Using a survey sample of 757 respondents, we found that in regard to informational needs more focus should be put on forest management activities, i.e. on available information about service providers’ contacts, prices, options and principles for selling harvesting rights and timber. Furthermore, joint timber sales as a service should be further developed and focused on. While forest owners ranked highly both the information about financial support and the specific measures, they found the system sometimes too complicated. Both in terms of information and service importance-performance, forest owners indicated certification as a low-priority topic. Whilst interest representation in policy processes was indicated as a very important service, its performance was rated quite modestly indicating slight dissatisfaction with the current arrangements. There are also several socio-demographic attributes of forest owners that influence their needs for information and services about forest management. However, a better understanding of these attributes might help develop the system further.https://doi.org/10.2478/fsmu-2019-0015service needsinformation needsimportance-performance analysisforest policyforest governance |
| spellingShingle | Põllumäe Priit Lilleleht Ando Korjus Henn Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia Metsanduslikud Uurimused service needs information needs importance-performance analysis forest policy forest governance |
| title | Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia |
| title_full | Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia |
| title_fullStr | Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia |
| title_short | Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia |
| title_sort | reflections of active forest owners to the public private forestry support system in estonia |
| topic | service needs information needs importance-performance analysis forest policy forest governance |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/fsmu-2019-0015 |
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