Proceedings of the Conference on Policy Instruments for Safeguarding Forest Biodiversity – Legal and Economic Viewpoints. The Fifth International BIOECON Conference 15th–16th January 2004, House of Estates, Helsinki

Authors: Horne, Paula, Tönnes, Susan & Koskela, Terhi (eds.)

Pages: 168

Bibliographic information

The fifth seminar of the EU project Biodiversity and Economics for Conservation (BIOECON) was held in Helsinki, Finland, on the 15th–16th January 2004. The seminar was hosted by the Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla) and the Institute of International Economic Law (KATTI) with assistance from the Forest Economics Forum of the Finnish Society of Forest Science. Under the heading Policy Instrument for Safeguarding Forest Biodiversity – Legal and Economics Viewpoints, the seminar focussed on the implementation of biodiversity policies in the forest sector. This publication is a collection of papers presented in the workshop, with an addition of a few BIOECON papers related to the topic of the seminar.

forest, forest policy, biodiversity conservation, policy instruments

Preface (pdf, size 868 kb)

Incentive based mechanisms

Economic and social implications of incentive based policy mechanisms in biodiversity conservation (pdf, size 480 kb)
Paula Horne, Ville Ovaskainen & Terhi Koskela
Spatial interactions and forest management: policy issues (pdf, size 511 kb)
Charles Perrings & Julia Touza-Montero

Economic science viewpoints

Biodiversity conservation on private lands: information problems and regulatory choices (pdf, size 497 kb)
Timo Goeschl & Tun Lin
A utility theoretic approach to define the forest landowner's minimum price demand for a biodiversity object (pdf, size 490 kb)
Mikko Kurttila, Jouni Pykäläinen & Pekka Leskinen
Optimal ownership of a public project, an application to conservation concessions (pdf, size 466 kb)
Pauline Grosjean

Choice of the policy instruments

Biodiversity conservation competency acquisition among Finnish forest management service providers (pdf, size 539 kb)
Eeva Primmer & Steven Wolf
A legal perspective on cost sharing in biodiversity conservation (pdf, size 1309 kb)
Leila Suvantola
Phytosanitary measures: preventing the introduction of exotic pests and pathogens occurring from the global trade of wood products (pdf, size 450 kb)
Majella Clarke
Evolution of biodiversity policies on the territory of the Cevennes National Park (France): some contractual approach issues (pdf, size 816 kb)
Jean-Paul Chassany, Bénédicte Rulleau & Jean-Michel Salles

Reconciliation of multiple objectives in forest sector

Policy science in making national forest programmes work (pdf, size 2045 kb)
Peter Glück
Strong policy through national consensus: Canada's forestry policy experiment (pdf, size 416 kb)
John D. Briner

Other papers

Property rights for biodiversity conservation and development: an analysis of extractive reserves in the Brazilian Amazon (pdf, size 662 kb)
Timo Goeschl & Danilo Camargo Igliori
Biodiversity law (pdf, size 1384 kb)
Kai Kokko

Horne, Paula, Tönnes, Susan & Koskela, Terhi (eds.). 2004. Proceedings of the Conference on Policy Instruments for Safeguarding Forest Biodiversity – Legal and Economic Viewpoints. The Fifth International BIOECON Conference 15th–16th January 2004, House of Estates, Helsinki. Metlan työraportteja / Working Papers of the Finnish Forest Research Institute 1. 168 p. ISBN 951-40-1927-X. Available at: http://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/2004/mwp001.htm.

Paula Horne, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Centre, Helsinki Research Unit, Unioninkatu 40 A, FIN-00170 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail paula.horne@metla.fi

Unit: Vantaa Research Unit
Program: Competition and public support in forestry
Projects: Policy instruments for forest-based public goods, Biodiversity and Economics for Conservation

Photo editor: Susan Tönnes Photographs: Erkki Oksanen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Centre Layout: Maija Heino, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Centre