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 ´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

  • DENVI ()
  • Finnish Academy of Sciences

Main outputs

  • Economics of size-structured forestry with carbon storage,
  • Optimal carbon storage in even-and uneven-aged forestry,

"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 , Natural Resources Institute

Funding

  • NordForsk:
  • Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry:

Main outputs

  • Predation costs and compensations in reindeer husbandry,
  • Ecology and economics of reindeer herding systems,
  • Parameterization and validation of an ungulate-pasture model,
  • Reindeer management and winter pastures in the presence of supplementary feeding and government subsidies,
  • Optimal harvesting of an age-structured, two-sex herbivore–plant system,

"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:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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 , German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

Main outputs

  • Strategic harvesting of age-structured populations.
  • It is the economy, stupid! Projecting the fate of fish populations using ecological–economic modeling.
  • Assessing social-ecological trade-oofs to advance ecosystem-based fisheries management.
  • Optimal harvesting of age-structured schooling fishery.
Incentive mechanisms to increase carbon sequestration and biodiversity in private forestry

Nico Österberg, Olli Tahvonen

 

Main outputs

 

  • Österberg, N. 2020, Compensation of carbon sequestration in forests: theory and practical applications. Masters thesis, University of Helsinki. .

"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. .

"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

  • AGFOREE ()

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.
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