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Priit Pollumae
Estonia
Editorial
Characteristics and Motives of Private Forest Owners
Author(s): Henn Korjus and Priit Pollumae
Henn Korjus and Priit Pollumae
The institutional environment in which different actors of the forestry sector transact is in constant change. Some of the institutional change can be explained through mental models and ideologies [1]. All these processes have also influenced the management of private forests. Non-industrial private forest owners are often classified to a limited number of forest owner types. Such classifications usually have problems with some owners not belonging to any type identified. Problems may occur also with owners recognized as “a new type of owners” because private forest owners are rather individual and dynamic in their ownership, management objectives and decisions. Despite these drawbacks these kind of classifications could be very useful in understanding them and their behaviour. Private forest owners have quite diverse set of motives and approaches to forest management and.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2168-9776.1000e112