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Private or Socialistic Forestry? - Forest Transition in Finland vs. Deforestation in the Tropics (Hardcover, 2012)
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Private or Socialistic Forestry? - Forest Transition in Finland vs. Deforestation in the Tropics (Hardcover, 2012)
Series: World Forests, 10
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While deforestation continues at an alarming rate around the world,
discussions on the range of underlying causes continue. The premise
is that studying successful transitions from deforestation to
sustainable forestry ex post in Finland can provide novel insights
into how deforestation in the tropics might be reduced in the
future. Our fundamental question here is why Finland succeeded to
stop deforestation for a century ago and why not the same is
feasible in the contemporary tropical countries? This book presents
a novel integrated theory within which this case study on Finland
and contemporary modeling of underlying causes of tropical
deforestation are developed. Finland remains the world's second
largest net exporter of forest products, while maintaining the
highest forest cover in Europe. A transition from deforestation to
sustainable industrial forestry took place in Finland during the
first part of the 20th century. The underlying causes of this
transition are compared via our theory with deforestation in 74
contemporary tropical countries. Both appear similar and support
our theory. The interaction of public policies and market
institutions has appeared to be critical during this transition.
The study's findings suggest that private forest ownership with a
continuous increase in the real value of forests and alleviation of
poverty under non-corruptive conditions has been a necessary, but
not a sufficient, condition for this transition. In a parallel way
public policies have also proved to be a necessary, but not
sufficient, condition in this transition. The conclusion is that
socialistic forestry along with corruption is artificially
maintaining too low values in the tropical forests. The opportunity
cost of sustainable forestry remains too high and deforestation by
extensification of agriculture therefore continues. The prevailing
socialistic forestry with dominating public forest ownership is by
purpose maintaining administratively set low stumpage prices
leading to low value of forests, wide corruption and continuous
forest degradation and deforestation. An effective remedy - to
raise the value of forests - is found to be within forestry.
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