Projects

Projects
Economics of forestry under climate change

Olli Tahvonen (project leader), Aino Assmuth, Vesa-Pekka Parkatti, Samuli Korhonen, Nico Österberg, Matti Laukkanen

  • In collaboration with Pekka Malo´s research team, Aalto University

Funding

  • Academy of Finland 2020-2024

"We aim to raise the economics of forestry under climate change to a new level by applying an interdisciplinary research approach, advanced analytical methods, and an economically strong theoretical basis."

Optimal carbon storage in heterogeneous forests

Aino Assmuth, Olli Tahvonen

 

Funding

Main outputs

"We concentrate on the economics of carbon storage in heterogenous forests. We analyze how forests can be managed to maximize the combined net-benefits of timber production and carbon storage."

Bioeconomics of reindeer husbandry

Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Olli Tahvonen

  • In collaboration with Jouko Kumpula, Natural Resources Institute

Funding

Main outputs

"We aim to develop and expand an interdisciplinary dynamic economic-ecological model for reindeer management that supports and expands our understanding of reindeer husbandry as a human-natural resource interaction system as well as a source of income and a traditional livelihood in northern Fennoscandia."

Economics of continuous cover and rotation forestry

Vesa-Pekka Parkatti, Olli Tahvonen

Funding

  • Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation: Nessling.fi
  • Academy of Finland

Main outputs

  • Parkatti, V.-P. and Tahvonen, O. 2020, Optimizing continuous cover and rotation forestry in mixed-species boreal forests, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, in print. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2020-0056
  • Parkatti, V-P., Assmuth, A., Rämö, J. and Tahvonen, O. Economics of boreal conifer species in continuous cover and rotation forestry. Forest Policy and Economics, 100, 55-67. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2018.11.003

We study the economics of optimal choice between rotation and continuous cover forestry, more specifically on how the economically optimal management regime is solved.

Economics of harvesting age-structured fish populations

Olli Tahvonen

  • In collaboration with Martin Quaas, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

Main outputs

Incentive mechanisms to increase carbon sequestration and biodiversity in private forestry

Nico Österberg, Olli Tahvonen

 

Main outputs

 

"We study incentive mechanisms to increase carbon sequestration and biodiversity in privately owned forests by applying economic-ecological models."

Including forest carbon sinks in the international climate agreements

Samuli Korhonen, Olli Tahvonen

 

Main outputs

 

  • Korhonen, S. 2020, Forests in European Union’s climate policy ‒ A case study of the forest reference level projection in Finland. Masters thesis, University of Helsinki. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:hulib-202009034025.

"The project aims to develop an economical and interdisciplinary understanding on the inclusion of forest carbon sinks in international climate agreements."

Forest markets under climate change policies

Matti Laukkanen, Olli Tahvonen

 

Funding

Main outputs

  • Laukkanen, M. 2020. On the Economics of carbon sequestration in forest sites of different productivity. University of Helsinki, Department of Economics and Management. Master's thesis. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/316369
Optimal harvesting of structured populations

 

Olli Tahvonen

Economics of even-aged Scots pine management, climate change and biodiversity

 

Sampo Pihlainen, Olli Tahvonen

In collaboration with Annikki Mäkelä (UH) and Raisa Mäkipää (LUKE)

We aim to develop the economics of even-aged Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) management. In our research a detailed process-based forest growth model is connected to an economic description of stand management. We apply economic-ecological optimization, simultaneously taking into account the interaction between forests and climate.

Funding: Academy of Finland, Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation