The relationship between management of forest owners' association and regional strusture of forestry : A case study on forest owners' association in Hyougo prefecture

本研究のねらいは, 森林組合をとりまく地域条件の差異が森林組合経営の展開にどのような変化をもたらすかを明らかにすることにあるが, そのなかでもとくに後発人工林地域における森林組合経営を対象とした。まず始めに, 兵庫県森林組合の全国的な位置づけを述べ, ついで兵庫県内で活動している北但西部および一宮町の2森林組合の経営展開を事例として検討した。北但西部森林組合の経営展開は, 大きくII期に分けられる。各期の事業の推移および作業班の組織化の過程を検討し両者が密接に対応していることを明かにした。その結果, 今後の課題として地域で求められてくる間伐事業の推進のために, それに対応できる林業労働力の組織化および組合員との関係強化と間伐材の需要開拓が必要であることを指摘した。一宮町森林組合の経営は, 森林造成事業を中心とした事業展開がみられるが, その内容は新植・下刈作業にかわって間伐・枝打作業に移行している。また, 林産事業では, 安定的に素材生産を実施するとともに, 国有林の請負事業に組り組むことによって, 事業を拡大している。 一方, 作業の担い手である林業労働力は, 現業職員制度を導入して確保につとめていることが明らかになった。ここでは今後とも作業班の事業化を強化することが必要であろう。In this paper, trhe relationship between management of forest owners' association (FOA) and regional structure of forestry is discussed through the case of Hokutan-seibu FOA and Ichinomiya-cho FOA in Hyogo prefecture. In the case of Hokutan-seibu FOA the structure of its activities related to organizing of worker's squad clearly. As a result, in accordance with the increasing of thinning activities in near future, to strengthen the relation of menbership in FOA and to find out the new market for thinning wood sill be needed. In the case of Ichinomiya-cho FOA, main its activities are afforestation but the contents of job in its activities changed from planting and weeding to thinning and prunning. Activities on logging are also increasing gradually by the contracting for logging of national forest. It is neccesarry to streugthen full-time employment on worker's squad to secure the labor force in this FOA

Contact strategy in a Forest Owner's Association : a benchmarking study about customer contact between a Forest Owners' Association and its members

Skogsägarföreningen har identifierat att ett av de största problemen för att uppnå mål kopplade till medlemsnytta ligger i förmågan att komma i kontakt med sina medlemmar. Med bakgrund av att skogsägarstrukturen förändrats under de senaste åren gjordes denna studie och genom en benchmarkingstudie undersöka vilka skillnader som finns mellan Skogsägareföreningens kontaktstrategi och kontaktstrategier hos företag i andra branscher med dokumenterat hög kundnöjdhet. Detta för att se om skogsägarföreningar kan dra lärdom av arbetssätt i andra branscher för att förbättra kontakten med befintliga medlemmar. Sex kvalitativa intervjuer hölls med representanter från Skogsägarföreningen, Bank- och försäkringsbolaget, Energibolaget, samt Konsultbolaget. Vårt arbete visar att Skogsägareföreningen idag har samma typ av kommunikationsvägar som övriga företag, samt gott om personal vars huvudsakliga uppgift är att skapa kontakt med skogsägarna. Det som skiljer Skogsägarföreningen från övriga företag är att skogsägarföreningen inte har tydliga rutiner och arbetsprocesser för hur kontaktskapande ska ske och där tror vi att det finns en stor utvecklingspotential. Företaget bör också avväga hur personalens arbete ska mätas, samt ta reda på vilka säljhinder som finns hos personalen och dämpa dessa. Skogsägarföreningens ledning bör också fokusera på att kommunicera verksamhetsidén och organisationens mål för att skapa en större förståelse och stolthet för dessa internt. Att dessutom fokusera mer på att sätta kunden i centrum och styra verksamheten utifrån kundnöjdhet kan bli ett framgångskoncept för företaget som även kan orsaka ökade ekonomiska intäkter.The Swedish Forest Owners’ Association we have been working with has identified that one of the biggest problems connected to obtaining goals related to benefits for its members lies in the ability to contact its members. This study was made based on the fact that the structure of the private forest owners in Sweden has changed over the last couple of years into more urban owners, not living on their real estate. The study was made as a benchmarking study between the Forest Owners’ Association and two other companies with documented satisfied customers. The aim was to investigate the differences between the Forest Owners’ Association’s contact strategy and contact strategies in the other two companies, to see if a Forest Owners’ Association can learn from other businesses and improve their contact making with existing members. Six qualitative interviews were held with representatives from the Forest Owners’ Association, the Bank- and Insurance Company, the Energy Company and the Consultant Company. Our work shows that the Forest Owners Association today has the same ways to communicate with its members as the other companies, as well as a lot of human resources whose main task is to contact forest owners. What differs the Forest Owners Association from the other companies is that the Forest Owners’ Association does not have clear routines and work processes on how to contact customers, and we believe that the major development potential lies here. The Forest Owners’ Association should also consider how the work of its employees should be measured and identify which Sales Call Reluctance-factors that exist in the organization and try to minimize the effect of these. The management of the Forest Owners’ Association should also focus on communicating the business idea and the goals of the organization internally to create a greater understanding and pride for the company among the employees. Additionally, focusing more on putting the customer first and managing the business based on customer satisfaction can be a successful concept that also could cause increased financial revenues

Participation of non-industrial private forest owners in National Forest Programmes: a discrete choice model for Northern Portugal

In countries where private forest ownership is very important, knowledge of the behaviour of private forest owners is useful for the design and implementation of successful forest policies. This applies to Portugal where 86 % of the forest lands are private property. This paper presents a study carried out in a region of the Northern part of the country covered by a local forest owners’ association. Based on individual data about the members of this association concerning some of their characteristics (implementation of publicly subsidised afforestation projects, size of the forest holdings, number of forest holdings belonging to the same owner and distance between the permanent residence of the owner and his forest holdings), a multinomial logit model is estimated for the probabilities of participation on public incentive schemes to finance individual and grouped afforestation projects.non industrial private forest owners, afforestation projects, public incentives

Forest owners association non-members relationships with national support system

Bakalaureusetöö Metsanduse õppekavalMetsaressurss on Eesti riigile suure olulisusega, mistõttu on riik võtnud eesmärgiks soodustada metsade heaperemehelikku majandamist luues erametsaomanikele neid abistava tugisüsteemi. Tugisüsteemi pakutavad teenused peavad olema metsaomaniku jaoks võimalikult kvaliteetsed ning seega on oluline teada teenuste kasutajate rahulolu praeguse pakutavaga. Lõputöö eesmärgiks on selgitada seoseid riikliku tugisüsteemi ja metsaühistusse mittekuuluvate erametsaomanike vahel. Uuringu alusandmeteks on erametsanduse tugisüsteemi rahulolu tagasisideküsimustiku vastused, mida analüüsiti nii kvantitatiivse kui kvalitatiivse meetodiga. Analüüsist selgus, et metsaühistusse mittekuuluvad erametsaomanikud on kursis eelkõige SA Erametsakeskus ja konsulentidega ning vähem tuntakse neid tugisüsteemi osasid (Eesti Erametsaliit, Keskühistu Eramets, Eesti Puidumüügikeskus), mille otsene sihtgrupp on metsaühistud. Metsaomanikel on vaja kõige enam erametsanduslikke toetusi ning kõige vähem oluliseks peetakse metsade sertifitseerimist. Tugisüsteemi peamise puudusena toodi välja halba infokorraldust. Lisaks selgus, et tugisüsteemist on vähem teadlikud looduskaitseliste piirangutega metsade omanikud. Lõputöö tulemusi saab kasutada erametsanduse edendamisel – teades metsaomanike sidet praeguse tugisüsteemiga on võimalik tugisüsteemi kvaliteeti vastavalt muuta.Forest resources are essential for Estonia and therefore a set of goals have been established together with a support system. Its function is to assist and help private forest owners with forest management. The services offered by the system have to be good and the quality could be changed by knowing the consumers satisfaction with the current state. The aim of this thesis is to elucidate forest owner association non-members relationships with the national support system. The data for this study originates from a satisfaction survey of private forestry support system conducted in 2017. The data analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative methods. The results were expressed primarily using descriptive statistics. The results showed that private forest owners are more informed about the Foundation Private Forest Centre and the regional consultants. However, they are less aware of those parts of the support system which target groups include mainly forest owners associations. Private forest owners regard forestry subsidies as the most significant part of the national support system. Less interest was shown in forest certification. Information management was named as the main disadvantage of the existing support system. The results showed that those forest owners with properties with conservation restrictions were in less contact with the support system and less aware of its existence. The results of this thesis could be applied when developing the private forestry support system. The quality of the support system for private forest owners can be adjusted knowing forest owners’ satisfaction with the current private forestry support system

Members of forest owners association Mellanskogs views on pre-commercial thinning

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the needs of pre-commercial thinning on private owned forest properties, which is considered to be increasing. The reason is believed to be the high cost of labor that pre-commercial thinning brings. Furthermore thinning is costly, the revenue created through pre-commercial thinning are post-poned until the first thinning. The study was made through a survey among members of Mellanskog forest owners association. The survey was distributed by e-mail. The time to answer was set to two weeks. The answers indicate that the most common reason why the pre-commercial thinning is delayed, or not done at all, is the forest owner’s lack of time. The high cost is also a common reason. The answers to some questions indicate that there is a certain need of advisory service among the owners of small properties, as well as owners that does not live on their property

Forest owners association representatives views on the private forestry support system

Bakalaureusetöö Metsanduse õppekavalBakalaureusetöö eesmärk on selgitada metsaühistute spetsialistide vaateid erametsanduse tugisüsteemi toimimise ning selle arenguvajaduse kohta. Eesmärgi täitmiseks viidi läbi kaheksa pool-struktureeritud intervjuud erinevate metsaühistute spetsialistidega. Kõik intervjuud lindistati metsaühistu spetsialistide nõusolekul ning iga intervjuu kohta tehti eraldi transkriptsioonid MS Word programmis. Intervjuus olevad küsimused jagunesid peamiselt kaheks valdkonnaks. Esimeses pooles olid küsimused seotud metsaühistu toimimisega ning teises pooles erametsanduse tugisüsteemiga. Analüüsist selgus, et enamuse arvates on Eesti erametsasektor üsna perspektiivikas metsaomanikke ja nende vajadusi koondav kogum. Metsaühistu arengusse usuvad kõik, soovides laiendada hallatavat metsamaa pindala ning liikmete arvu. Tugisüsteemi optimaalsuses kahtleb üle kolmandiku vastanutest. Probleemideks tuuakse välja väikeste metsaühistute ja metsaomanike suretamine ning mitte toetamine. Tugisüsteemis positiivne on metsaomanike aktiivsus astuda metsaühistutesse, sealhulgas metsaühistute enda hea majandamise ning nõustamisteenuse osutamine.The aim of the bachelor thesis is to investigate the views of forest owner association specialists on the functioning of the support system for private forestry and its development needs. To do this, eight semi-structured interviews were carried out with different association specialists. All interviews were recorded with the permit of the association specialists and then transcribed in MS Word. The questions touched to broad areas. In the first part of the interview, questions related to the functioning of the association were asked. In the second part, also questions related to the support system were asked. From the analysis, it became clear that the majority of the interviewees considered the Estonian private forestry sector quite potential as a complex system of forest owners and their needs. The interviewees believe in the development of forest owner associations, they wish to expand the forest area and the number of members. However, more than one third of the respondents questioned the optimality of the support system. Highlighted problems include the eradication of small forest owner associations and forest owners and the failure in supporting them. Within the support system, the active joining of forest owners with associations is considered positive, including the good management by the associations and the provision of advisory services

Preliminary Evidence on Responses to the New Zealand Forestry Emissions Trading Scheme

New Zealand is the first country to implement a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that includes a forestry component as part of its contribution to global climate mitigation and as a strategy for compliance with the international climate change agreement the Kyoto Protocol. The goal of this paper is to provide information o forestry’s role in the New Zealand ETS such that a foreign policymaker will be able to understand the intricacies and issues of the New Zealand system and be able to apply this knowledge to the design of his or her own ETS. This paper also aims to provide useful documentation of the system as it stands in 2010 for the New Zealand Parliament to use in future reviews of the system. The paper first provides a brief outline of the role of forestry in New Zealand’s ETS, including the reasons for its inclusion in the greater system and the rules by which forestry operates within the system. This paper then analyses these rules, indicating the reasons behind the inclusion of certain provisions where the reasoning may not be immediately clear. Finally, this paper provides both quantitative and qualitative data on how well the system is working so far, whether the system is operating as predicted, and why any discrepancies between predicted and actual outcomes arise.Forestry; emissions trading; carbon trading; climate change; climate change mitigation; government policy; New Zealand

Forest Land Ownership Changes in Portugal

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Participation of non-industrial private forest owners in National Forest Programmes: a discrete choice model for Northern Portugal

In countries where private forest ownership is very important, knowledge of the behaviour of private forest owners is useful for the design and implementation of successful forest policies. This applies to Portugal where 86 % of the forest lands are private property. This paper presents a study carried out in a region of the Northern part of the country covered by a local forest owners’ association. Based on individual data about the members of this association concerning some of their characteristics (implementation of publicly subsidised afforestation projects, size of the forest holdings, number of forest holdings belonging to the same owner and distance between the permanent residence of the owner and his forest holdings), a multinomial logit model is estimated for the probabilities of participation on public incentive schemes to finance individual and grouped afforestation projects.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Mapping and explaining the productivity of Pinus radiata in New Zealand

Mapping Pinus radiata productivity for New Zealand not only provides useful information for forest owners, industry stakeholders and policy managers, but also enables current and future plantations to be visualised, quantified, and planned. Using an extensive set of permanent sample plots, split into fitting (n = 1,146) and validation (n = 618) datasets, models of P. radiata 300 Index (an index of volume mean annual increment) and Site Index (an index of height growth) were developed using a regression kriging technique. Spatial predictions were accurate and accounted for 61% and 70% of the variance for 300 Index and Site Index, respectively. Productivity predicted from these surfaces for the entire plantation estate averaged 27.4 m³ ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ for the 300 Index and 30.4 m for Site Index. Surfaces showed wide regional variation in this productivity, which was attributable mainly to variation in air temperature and root-zone water storage from site to site