Petäjistö, Leena

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

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Expertise

• forestry sector and viability of countryside

Research Projects

Current

• Business models and success factors of wood energy harvesting entrepreneurs
  
• Control of vertebrate damages in forestry
  
• Nature and forest based tourism as a business opportunity
  

Former

• Co-ordination of research programme
  
• Damage caused by cervid species and controlling methods
  
• Forest Policies and Metla's socio-economic research
  
• Forest policy for non-industrial private forestry in Finland
  
• Forest sector and rural livelihood
  
• Policy instruments for forest-based public goods
  
• Protection areas and rural vitality
  
• Regional aspects of the societal and forestry effects of cervids in Finland
  
• Society's cervid population targets and their effects on forestry, bio-diversity and forest ecosystem management - a pilot study
  
• Success factors and development potential of forest- and wood-based SMEs
  
• Success factors of forest and woodworking SMEs in the Europe
  
• Success factors of wooden house and other woodworking firms in a changing competitive environment
  
• The regional concentration of forest and woodworking SMEs in Finland: benefits for development and employment?
  

Contacts

Keywords: forest sector, viability of countryside