A gift programme for sustainable forest management? A Swiss perspective on public policies and property rights

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ID18992247
AutoresLeonard Creutzburg (0000-0001-8608-2841, ETH Zurich, autor de correspondencia), Tamaki Ohmura (0000-0002-4791-6978, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, autor de correspondencia), Eva Lieberherr (0000-0001-5985-0809, ETH Zurich, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen75
Número2
Páginas69-80
Fecha de publicación2020-05-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographica Helvetica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7312 • E-ISSN: 2194-8798
EditorialCopernicus GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.5194/gh-75-69-2020
OpenAlexW3023486325
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas13

For multifunctional forests that seek to fulfil societal, environmental and economic demands, active forest management is key. However, like in many other western European countries, Switzerland's small-scale private forest owners increasingly do not manage their forests. By applying and adapting the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR), a framework for environmental policy analysis that considers use rights both from public policies and property rights, we analyse the situation in Switzerland. Subsequently, we propose a Swiss forest gift programme – based on the Canadian Ecological Gifts Program (EGP) – consisting of different policy instruments that would ultimately lead to a transfer of property rights from the current to new owners. In sum, we argue that our proposal would lead to more “coherence”, with regard to the IRR's sustainability dimension, and consequently to clearer responsibilities for the sustainable management of forests in Switzerland

Business · Certified wood · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Forest management · Geography · Natural resource economics · Property rights · Public economics · Scale (ratio) · Sustainability · Sustainable forest management · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Environmental Conservation and Management · Forest Management and Policy · Forestry