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Quantifying the Implications of Different Land Users’ Priorities in the Management of Boreal Multiple-Use Forests

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Abstract

In the management of natural resources, conflicting interests and objectives among different stakeholders often need to be considered. Here, we examine how two contrasting management scenarios of boreal forests in northern Sweden differ in their consequences on forest structural composition and the economic gains at harvest. Management strategies prioritize either (i) forest characteristics that promote grazing resources for reindeer herded by the indigenous Sámi, or (ii) timber production as practiced in Sweden today. When prioritizing reindeer grazing, forest stands develop a higher abundance of older age classes with larger trees and lower stem density, which reduces harvest and revenue levels by approximately 20 % over a 100-year period. The differences between these strategies illustrate the complexity in finding a trade-off for coexistence between industrial land users and other livelihoods that share the same landscape. Political support and institutional solutions are necessary to initiate changes in policy in finding such trade-offs in the management of environmental resources and thereby influence the optimal distribution of costs and benefits between different actors.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the Lars-Evert Nutti, Sirges, and Karin Baer, Vilhelmina Norra, for discussions and for providing information about their grazing grounds that were considered in this study. The comments of two anonymous reviewers greatly helped to increase the quality of the manuscript. This work was supported financially by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning FORMAS to Jon Moen.

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    Tim Horstkotte & Jon Moen

  2. Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agriculture, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden

    Torgny Lind

  3. Institute of Geography and Geology, Turku University, 200 14, Turku, Finland

    Tim Horstkotte

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Horstkotte, T., Lind, T. & Moen, J. Quantifying the Implications of Different Land Users’ Priorities in the Management of Boreal Multiple-Use Forests. Environmental Management 57, 770–783 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-015-0643-5

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