Abstract

This report covers elaboration and demonstration of a method to quantify and evaluate the many uses of the forest for people living in a sparsely populated area in the north of Sweden. The uses are grouped into the forest or forestry as a source of income, value as environment for leisure time, value as residential environment, and finally other values. Ten households in Skröven and Hakkas in Norrbotten are interviewed. The interviewees describe their use and the amounts and frequencies, rank the four uses, and put a relative value in per cent on each use. The annual mean total value is 121 000 SEK. The various mean incomes are less then half (45%) of the value derived from all uses of the forest. Comparing the three uses that constitute the other half, all are of approximately equal value. The incomes concerned are from employment in forestry, from reindeer herding, from the sale of timber from a forest holding or from the increase in value of the holding, or from firewood

Keywords

forest use; value; interview; income; residential environment; leisure time

Published in

Title: Reflections on the Kvarken region : prospects for a cross-border region within the European Union
ISBN: 951-683-995-9
Publisher: University of Vaasa, Levón Institute

SLU Authors

• Wilhelmsson, Erik

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Landscape Architecture
Forest Science


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/184