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Day: 21 October 2015

Size of forest property dictates choice of forest management

Categorized in: Forest, Forest Management Posted on: October 21, 2015 Last updated on: January 9, 2018 Jeannette Eggers, Torgny Lind, Tomas Lämås and Karin Öhman
When it comes to factors that affect how private forest owners choose to manage their forest, distance to the estate, income, profession or gender seem to be of a secondary nature compared to the size of the estate. Half of…
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Forest helps micro-firms to survive

Categorized in: Forest, SMEs Posted on: October 21, 2015 Last updated on: December 7, 2017 Katarina Haugen and Urban Lindgren
Owning forest as an entrepreneur could increase the firms’ possibility to survive in a harsh economic environment. However, the effect is only visible for men and is more vivid in rural areas. 60 000 new firms are started in Sweden…
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