Year: 2024
Type: book
Abstract: The providers of decision-support services for Finnish forest owners have been advised to create new services that are partially or entirely based on other than wood value.In this work report, we ponder what these kinds of services could actually be and what kind of challenges and possibilities the development entails.The report is primarily based on previous literature, in addition to which we utilise data from forest planning experiments.The main challenges in the development of services that look beyond wood value are related with ideologies and values, invisibility of demand and vagueness of development goals.Service providers need concrete examples of service products that are shown to have demand (at least tentatively) and follow the strong sustainability view, where well-being of nature and the environment are raised beyond wood production.Development of such forest services and decision-support is needed, to support sustainability transition within service sector and in forest use and to guide service providers towards so far untapped new business opportunities.
Institution: University of Eastern Finland
Language: Finnish
Topic: Forest Management and Policy
Subfield: Forestry
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7215608274