Ovaskainen, Ville

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

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Expertise

• non-industrial private forest owners' behaviour
• forest policy
• forest taxation
• valuation of forest biodiversity
• recreation demand
• nonmarket valuation

Research Projects

Current

• Profitability in private forestry and forest policy instruments
  
• Value of managed forests
  
• Valuing ja marketing forest externalities
  

Former

• Business cycles in the forest sector
  
• Co-ordination of research programme
  
• Environmental and recreation services of forests: economic impacts, valuation, and business opportunities
  
• Evaluation of public cost-sharing in Finnish family forestry
  
• Family forestry and policy
  
• Forest Policies and Metla's socio-economic research
  
• Forest policy for non-industrial private forestry in Finland
  
• Forest policy instruments and management of family forests
  
• Monitoring system for nonindustrial private forestry
  
• New Way to Value and Market Forest Externalities
  
• Outdoor recreation demand and benefits
  
• Planning and economics of multiple-use forestry
  
• Policy instruments for forest-based public goods
  
• Policy instruments for safeguarding forest biodiversity
  
• Structural change in nonindustrial private forestry and timber supply
  
• Use of nonindustrial private forests and forest policy
  
• Valuation of national recreation sites in Finland
  

Contacts

Keywords: biodiversity, forest policy, forest taxation, nonindustrial private forests, nonmarket valuation, recreation demand