Social impacts of forests

Safeguarding forest biodiversity – policy instruments and socio-economic impacts (TUK)

duration: 2005-2010
director:  Riitta Hänninen

The programme studies how the safeguarding of forest biodiversity is integrated with other forms of forest use at the national and regional level: the types of steering and implementation methods that should be used and the social and economic impacts the safeguarding of forest biodiversity will have in a changing environment. The results of the research programme support directly, for example, the Forest Biodiversity Programme for Southern Finland (METSO 2008–2016) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the National Forest Programme 2015, and the work of the METSO monitoring working group established by the Ministry of the Environment.

Further information about the research programme

Further information about Metla’s research