IUFRO Division VI Symposium:
Integrative Science for Integrative Management

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IUFRO Task Force:
Forest, Trees and
Human Health and
Well-Being

Forest Policy Workshop
of the Scandinavian Society
of Forest Economics

Session: Development of the forest sector in Russia: national and global perspectives

Organizers of the technical session

Professor Timo Karjalainen
Finnish Forest Research Institute, Joensuu Research Unit
P.O. Box 68, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland
e-mail Timo.Karjalainen@metla.fi

Professor Max Krott
Institute for Forest Policy and Nature Conservation
Georg-August-University Goettingen
Buesgenweg 3, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany
e-mail mkrott@gwdg.de

Professor Anatoly Petrov
All-Russia Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry
VIPKLKh
Institutskay Str. 17
141200 Pushkino, Moscow region, Russia
e-mail petrov@forest-education.ru

Brief description of the technical session

Forest sector in Russia has been recovering from the collapse after the breakdown of Soviet Union, although harvesting and production levels are still behind those pre 1992. New forest code has been under preparation for several years and was finally approved by the State Duma in early November 2006 and has entered into force 1.1.2007. This was important step, but there are still many challenges ahead, related for example to development of national forest policy and national forest programme, responsibilities of the federal power and the regions, role of public and private sector, role of domestic and foreign operators, responsibility of forest management, education and research needs and international strategy. These issues have been and are challenging topics also for research.

Aim of this technical session is to present and to discuss analysis of the recent development in Russian forest sector, approaches used, about prospects and possible recommendations.

 

Speakers	Abstract
Dr. Jan Ilavsky	Transfer of best practices from the transtion of new EU member countries to the Russian forest sector reform
Prof. Hiroaki Kakizawa	Towards collaborative forest governance in the Russian Far East
Mr. Tatu Torniainen	Does the new forest management regime of the Russia promote sustainable management of forests? – Institutional analysis
Mr. Mats Nordberg	Forest management reforms in three ex-Soviet Republics
Dr. Sergey Chumachenko et al.	Simulation model as a tool to plan use and development of forest resources
Mrs. Olga Tyukina	Development of alternative cost accounting methods of wood harvesting in Russia
Prof. Pekka Ollonqvist et al.	Income and employment effects of transnational wood resource use – industrial use of roundwood in the Republic of Karelia (Russia) and Eastern Finland
Dr. Anne Toppinen et al.	Competitive positioning of Northwest Russian wood industry SMEs
	Discussion