Karppinen, Heimo

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• values and objectives of private forest ownership
• motives for forest regeneration
• selection of reforestation method
• forecasting structural changes in private forest ownership

Research Projects

Current

• Profitability in private forestry and forest policy instruments
  

Former

• Biodiversity and Economics of Forestry
  
• Evaluation of public cost-sharing in Finnish family forestry
  
• Family forestry and policy
  
• Forest policy for non-industrial private forestry in Finland
  
• Forest policy instruments and management of family forests
  
• Forest regeneration motives and choice of regeneration method on private woodlots
  
• Monitoring system for nonindustrial private forestry
  
• Policy instruments for forest-based public goods
  
• Social sustainability of forestry
  
• Structural change in nonindustrial private forestry and timber supply
  
• Use of nonindustrial private forests and forest policy
  

Contacts

Keywords: forest owners, forest ownership, forest regeneration, regeneration, woodland regeneration