Sammanfattning

The forest landscape across the Nordic and Baltic regions hosts numerous lakes and watercourses, which must be included in forest management. In this study, national policy designs regarding protection zones for surface waters on forest land were reviewed and compared for the Nordic countries, Estonia and Latvia. The focus was how each country regulates protection zones, whether they are voluntary or mandatory, and the rationale behind adopting a low or high degree of prescriptiveness. Iceland and Denmark had a low degree of policy prescriptiveness, whereas Norway, Estonia and Latvia had a high degree of prescriptiveness. Sweden and Finland relied to a large extent on voluntary commitments. The prescribed zone widths within the region ranged from 1 m to 5 km. The results indicated that land-use distribution, forest ownership structure and historical and political legacies have influenced the varying degrees of prescriptiveness in the region.

Nyckelord

Buffer; Certification; Forestry; Guidelines; Legislation; Riparian

Publicerad i

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
2017, Volym: 46, nummer: 8, sidor: 878-893
Utgivare: SPRINGER

SLU författare

• Lode, Elve

  • Institutionen för mark och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Tallinna Ülikool

Globala målen

SDG6 Säkerställa tillgången till och en hållbar förvaltning av vatten och sanitet för alla


UKÄ forskningsämne

Miljövetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0924-8

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/92832