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Mönkkönen, Mikko
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Impacts of bio-economy policies on forest ecosystem services: a boreal perspective
2018
One of the most pressing challenges for governments is how to move from a fossil- to a bio-based economy to achieve a sustainable growth. Bio-economy encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources into value-added products, such as biofuels. The use of bioenergy is regarded as an important climate change mitigation strategy and its annual demand is rapidly increasing. In particular, there is immense pressure to use boreal forest resources as bioenergy for meeting the challenging new bio-economy policy goals (EC 2012). For example, Finland will need to largely intensify timber production because policy aims at increasing the levels of energ…
Quantifying climate impacts and biodiversity effects of increased forest biomass harvests – an integrated assessment
2018
Increasing forest biomass harvests to combat climate change by replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy may pose a trade-off with climate regulation services of forests and biodiversity conservation. Previous forest bioenergy studies focus mainly, either on effects on carbon cycle or biodiversity impacts (1–3). These studies show that increased extraction of branches, stumps and other residual biomass from current levels decreases the carbon stock and the carbon sink capacity of forests, and has negative effects on species depended on deadwood. Nevertheless, still little is known how climate regulation services or biodiversity indicators respond to a large scale removal of harvest residues in …
Changing forest stakeholders’ perception of ecosystem services with linguistic nudging
2018
Forest owners and professionals are key in facilitating transition to sustainable forest management as they can influence the processes of future forest practices and use. Recently, an emerging literature has examined the effects that viewing different types of information may have on stakeholder perceptions in the context of forest management. These studies have demonstrated a link between information interventions and preference change, but only to some degree. Therefore, there is a need to further explore individuals’ reactions to information on forest-based (ES) and to link these reactions to the design of policy instruments. Contributing to this gap, we explore whether Finnish forest o…