A gift programme for sustainable forest management? A Swiss perspective on public policies and property rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18992247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Creutzburg (0000-0001-8608-2841, ETH Zurich, corresponding author), Tamaki Ohmura (0000-0002-4791-6978, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, corresponding author), Eva Lieberherr (0000-0001-5985-0809, ETH Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 69-80 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographica Helvetica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7312 • E-ISSN: 2194-8798 |
| Publisher | Copernicus GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.5194/gh-75-69-2020 |
| OpenAlex | W3023486325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
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
Designing Public Policies
Qualitative Content Analysis
Public and Personal Social Services in European Countries from Public/Municipal to Private—and Back to Municipal and “Third Sector” Provision
European private forest owner typologies
Governing contemporary commons
Lifestyles of private forest owners as an indication of social change
Policy instruments to enhance multi-functional forest management
Decommodification as a foundation for ecological economics
Institutional Resource Regimes
Integrated Forest Governance in Europe
Neoliberalizing environmental governance? Land trusts, private conservation and nature on the Oak Ridges Moraine
Economic Instruments for Environmental Protection
The strategic use of time-limited property rights in land-use planning
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |