Angelstam, Per
- School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Abstract
There is a rivalry between policies on intensification of forest management to meet the demands of a growing bioeconomy, and policies on green infrastructure functionality. Evaluation of the net effects of different policy instruments on real-world outcomes is crucial. First, we present data on final felling rates in wood production landscapes and stand age distribution dynamic in two case study regions, and changes in dead wood amounts in Sweden. Second, the growth of formally protected areas was compiled and changes in functional connectivity analysed in these regions, and the development of dead wood and green tree retention in Sweden was described. The case studies were the counties Dalarna and Jamtland (77,000 km(2)) representing an expanding frontier of boreal forest transformation. In the wood production landscape, official final felling rates averaged 0.84%/year, extending the regional timber frontier. The amount of forest
Keywords
biodiversity; bioeconomy; forest management; functional connectivity; policy implementation; spatial modelling; land sparing
Published in
Land
2021, volume: 10, number: 5, article number: 531
Publisher: MDPI
SLU Authors
Associated SLU-program
SLU Plant Protection Network
Global goals (SDG)
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10050531
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/112456