Microbusinesses reconciling monetary and nature values in forestry

Abstract

Finland is a country with hundreds of thousands of small-scale entrepreneurs in forestry. These non-industrial private forest owners reconcile their timber production with other motives of forest ownership. Conservation of nature values, carbon sequestration, community values, different types of recreation and timber production are often but not always joint produced even in the same hectare. The increasing demand of timber challeges the balance in the future. The higher demand affects the timber prices making the timber production more profitable. To enhance other forest values, new business models for forest owners are called for.