title: Multifaceted value profiles of forest owner categories in south Sweden: the River Helge å catchment as a case study.
abstract: Forest landscapes provide benefits from a wide range of goods, function and intangible values. But what are different forest owner categories' profiles of economic use and non-use values? This study focuses on the complex forest ownership pattern of the River Helge å catchment including the Kristianstad Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve in southern Sweden. We made 89 telephone interviews with informants representing the four main forest owner categories. Our mapping included consumptive and non-consumptive direct use values, indirect use values, and non-use values such as natural and cultural heritage. While the value profiles of non-industrial forest land owners and municipalities included all value categories, the forest companies focused on wood production, and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on nature protection. We discuss the challenges of communicating different forest owners' economic value profiles among stakeholders, the need for a broader suite of forest management systems, and fora for collaborative planning.
authors.affiliation: Landscape Management, Design and Construction, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.
authors.forename: Gustav
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Richnau
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Angelstam
authors.forename: Sviataslau
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Valasiuk
authors.forename: Lyudmyla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zahvoyska
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Axelsson
authors.forename: Marine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elbakidze
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Farley
authors.forename: Ingemar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jönsson
authors.forename: Ihor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Soloviy
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D016468:Forestry / Q000191:economics*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010067:Ownership; D013548:Sweden