Ahtikoski, Anssi

D.Sc. (For.), docent in forest economics, Researcher

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Expertise

• profitability calculations of forestry
• cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
• decision support systems and tools
• stand-level optimization
• economics of tree breeding

Research Projects

Current

• Bioenergy from Laplands stands
  
• Capfor - Capacity building in forest management
  
• Coordination of Forest Cluster Research Projects
  
• Effects of alternative stand management on wood production and profitability
  
• Geographical information systems and multi-objective decision support methods for multiple use forestry
  
• NOVELTREE- Novel Tree Breeding Strategies
  
• Potential and feasibility of intensive wood and biomass production (EffFibre WP2)
  
• Prediction of stand dynamics and development of MOTTI software
  
• The meaning of tourism and recreation in rural development and landscape
  
• The monitoring of the impacts of the Forest Biodiversity Programme for SSouthern Finland (METSO 2008-2016)
  
• Valuing ja marketing forest externalities
  

Former

• Co-ordination of research programme
  
• Decision support system for stand management
  
• Development of peatland harvesting
  
• Feasibility, productivity and profitability of forest management methods based on selection and gap treatments
  
• Forest regeneration in the special conditions of northern Finland
  
• Growth, yield, and stand dynamics on drained peatlands
  
• Impacts of forest conservation on the Finnish forest sector in the changing business environment
  
• Management alternatives for biodiversity conservation and their effects on stand-level profitability
  
• New Way to Value and Market Forest Externalities
  
• New value chains of forest industry based on domestic raw material
  
• Operational regimes for wood production in peatland forest
  
• Prediction and simulation of stand dynamics
  
• Silvicultural regimes for drained peatland forests.
  
• Sustainable multiple use of forests in northern Lapland
  
• The profitability of private forestry in Ostra Botnia I
  
• The profitability of private forestry in Ostra Botnia II
  

Contacts

Keywords: MOTTI stand developer, cost-benefit analysis, decision support tools, optimization, profitability