Healthy and productive forests benefit us all, but what are the priorities of those directly managing Swedish forests? This brief presents a comparison of the preferences of key stakeholders regarding Swedish forest management and biodiversity protection. 

According to the Swedish Forest Act production and environmental goals should be regarded as equally important. Our study finds that forest owners, public forestry officials and employees at industrial forestry companies and forest owners’ associations prefer management practices that promote production rather than biodiversity protection.

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This brief is part of CONNECT, a joint project of the Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, France; Department of Economics/Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany; Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, Sweden; Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. CONNECT is funded under the 2011 BiodivERsA call.

References

This brief is based on the following publication: 

Nordén, A., J. Coria, A.M. Jönsson, F. Lagergren and V. Lehsten. (2015). Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden. Working Papers in Economics no: 616. Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg.

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