Impact of globalizing forest industry in Finland

March 6, 2010 by timbercommunity

The main focus in this thesis is on describing and solving new challenges that globalization presents for the Finnish forest industry. Some of the findings of this thesis can be highlighted to construct a mental map of the  impact of the globalizing forest industry on the provisioning of ecosystems services.
 

Thesis: Petteri Vihervaara
UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
Section of Biodiversity and Environmental Science
Department of Biology
2010

Globalization, corporate environmental management, and their combined impact on ecosystem services in different locations. Some conclusion from this study. First of all, ecosystem services have to be properly identified, their volume quantified, and their distributions, both spatial and temporal, described. This is basically the task of natural scientists.
Secondly, the social and economic relevance of ecosystem services needs to be assessed; this is often the work of social scientists and economists. Thirdly, the sustainable governance of ecosystem services needs to be arranged at the appropriate level. Application of the means of regulation is primarily carried out by administrative scientists, legal experts and policy analysts.
The aim of this study is to emphasize the importance of the simultaneous integration of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary tools and approaches of coupled human-environment systems theory. From the point of view of applied science and management, it is also relevant to identify the key stakeholders – providers, users and regulators of ecosystem services – in a particular case where land use or the exploitation of natural resources may affect ecosystem services.

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