Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region
We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living biomass, dea...
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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/228801 2024-01-07T09:41:47+01:00 Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka Tahvonen, Olli 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228801 eng eng Milano: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Series: Working Paper No. 025.2020 gbv-ppn:1741490235 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228801 RePEc:fem:femwpa:2020.25 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 Q2 Q23 Q24 Q28 Arctic Forestry Indigenous Peoples Sámi Continuous Cover Forestry Uneven‐Aged Forestry Carbon Sequestration Reindeer Husbandry Carbon Debt Payback Period doc-type:workingPaper 2020 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-11T00:46:11Z We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living biomass, deadwood and wood products, negative effects on reindeer husbandry, and a flexible optimization between rotation forestry (cf. clearcuts) and forestry that maintains continuous forestcover. We show that the profitability of conventional forestry is based on utilizing existing forest stands, an outcome that can be understood as forest capital mining. By varying the carbon price between €0 tCO2 and €40 tCO2, we show that the optimal solutions based on a 3% interest rate are always continuous cover forestry. A carbon price of €60 - €100tCO2 implies that it is optimal to give up timber production and utilize forests for carbon storage and reindeer pasture only. Given the present forest management practices and an old-growth forest as the initial state, the carbon choke price decreases to €14–€20 CO2. The optimal choice between timber production and utilizing forests purely for carbon storage and reindeer husbandry may depend on the initial forest state. The choice between maintaining old-growth forest and converting land to timber production, as determined by dynamic economic analysis, is incompatible with the frequently applied approach based on carbon debt and the carbon payback period. Report Arctic reindeer husbandry Sámi EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) Arctic Deadwood ENVELOPE(-117.453,-117.453,56.733,56.733) |
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We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living biomass, deadwood and wood products, negative effects on reindeer husbandry, and a flexible optimization between rotation forestry (cf. clearcuts) and forestry that maintains continuous forestcover. We show that the profitability of conventional forestry is based on utilizing existing forest stands, an outcome that can be understood as forest capital mining. By varying the carbon price between €0 tCO2 and €40 tCO2, we show that the optimal solutions based on a 3% interest rate are always continuous cover forestry. A carbon price of €60 - €100tCO2 implies that it is optimal to give up timber production and utilize forests for carbon storage and reindeer pasture only. Given the present forest management practices and an old-growth forest as the initial state, the carbon choke price decreases to €14–€20 CO2. The optimal choice between timber production and utilizing forests purely for carbon storage and reindeer husbandry may depend on the initial forest state. The choice between maintaining old-growth forest and converting land to timber production, as determined by dynamic economic analysis, is incompatible with the frequently applied approach based on carbon debt and the carbon payback period. |
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Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka Tahvonen, Olli |
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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region |
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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region |
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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region |
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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region |
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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region |
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economics of multifunctional forestry in the sámi people homeland region |
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Milano: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) |
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2020 |
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Arctic reindeer husbandry Sámi |
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Arctic reindeer husbandry Sámi |
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