Stryamets, Natalya
- School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Forests provide a diversity of non-wood forest products as a resource base for regional and rural development. The role of non-wood forest products differs in time and space. The aim of the study was to analyze the role of non-wood forest products in livelihoods, especially forest-dependent communities, in Ukraine and Sweden. 114 interviews with local stakeholders in two countries were done for this study. The results showed that (1) non-wood forest products have potential for economic rural development, (2) traditional practices of non-wood forest products utilization were retained and revived in Ukraine, (3) and were no longer economically but rather socially important for local people in Sweden. Non-wood forest products have great potential for sustainable rural development, as resources for economic development.
Keywords
sustainable forest management; sustainable rural development; sustainable livelihoods; Ukraine; Sweden
Published in
Bosque
2012, volume: 33, number: 3, pages: 329-332
Publisher: UNIV AUSTRAL CHILE, FAC CIENCIAS FORESTALES
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG12 Responsible consumption and production
UKÄ Subject classification
Environmental Sciences
Ecology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-92002012000300017
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/44824