Sammanfattning

Coarse woody debris (CWD) is crucial for maintaining biodiversity in forests but conservation measures to increase CWD must be performed cost efficiently. We estimate least-cost combinations of CWD-increasing measures in a spruce-dominated Swedish forest estate. Specifically, we investigate how using combinations of the measures tree retention, creating high stumps, manual scarification, prolonged rotations, and retention of dying trees impacts the amount of CWD and net present value at the estate level. We found that by combining CWD-increasing measures in an optimal way the amount of CWD on the estate could be increased 322% with a decrease in present value of only 10%. The optimal combination of conservation measures depends on the desired increase in CWD. The analysis thus shows that huge improvements in cost-efficiency of biodiversity-oriented forestry are possible. (C) 2013 Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

Nyckelord

Dead wood; Forestry; Forest estate; FSC; Picea abies

Publicerad i

Journal of Forest Economics
2013, Volym: 19, nummer: 3, sidor: 267-285
Utgivare: ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG

SLU författare

• Ekvall, Hans

  • Institutionen för skogsekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Jonsson, Mattias

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Bostedt, Göran

  • Institutionen för skogsekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG15 Skydda, återställa och främja ett hållbart nyttjande av landbaserade ekosystem, hållbart bruka skogar, bekämpa ökenspridning, hejda och vrida tillbaka markförstöringen samt hejda förlusten av biologisk mångfald


UKÄ forskningsämne

Nationalekonomi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfe.2013.05.002

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/51405