Forest PolicyLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

This study unit is taught in Finnish. The translation has not been updated after 31 July 2025. Please change the language to Finnish in Peppi and read the description in Finnish. Upon completing the course, the students identify processes of forest policy, recognise the aims, instruments, and operators of the Finnish forest policy, as well as the importance of forests and forest policy for the welfare of the society. Students describe the state of worlds forests and lists main actors of forestry and recognize main features of national and global markets of forest products.

Content

• Forest policy as a science, a system of governance, and a political process. • The goals, instruments, and implementation processes of Finnish forest policy. • Main forest policy instruments: regulations, incentives, informing and market driven governance. • Forest ownership in Finland • Introduction to global and European forest policy • State of world forests and forestry • Suntanable forest management in different parts of the world • National and global markets of forest products

Materials

From 1.8.2024: Materials assigned in lectures and course´s learning environment. Until 31.7.2024: Materials assigned in lectures and course´s learning environment FAO. State of the World Forests, Uusin raportti. http://www.fao.org/3/ca8642en/CA8642EN.pdf Hetemäki, Kangas, Peltola 2022. Forests bioeconomy and climate change – sivut 1-31; 55-111; 229-248 (from 1.8.2023). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99206-4 UNECE/FAO. Forest products annual market review, Uusimman raportin luvut 1 ja 2.  Hetemäki, L. (ed.). 2014. Future of the European Forest-Based Sector. Structural Changes Towards Bioeconomy. European Forest Insitute, What Science Can Tell Us 6. 108 p. https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/10216  (until 31.7.2023).

Further information

There might be students from partner universities participating in the course (University of Helsinki and Karelia University of Applied Sciences)

Execution methods

• Hybrid teaching consisting of lectures and exercises • Course exam online and thereafter in electronic exam environment (EXAM) • Exercises require participation in session or alternatively they can be done individually online.

Accomplishment methods

Lectures (30 h), Excercises (16 h), literature, exami.