1 / 18

Strategic criteria for compensating Natura areas Alla n S i ms, Allar Padari

Strategic criteria for compensating Natura areas Alla n S i ms, Allar Padari. Forest produce s different goods. In addition to management goods, a forest contains and helps to: clear water clear air protect against erosion protect shore and coast old trees habitats for birds animals

jeneva
Download Presentation

Strategic criteria for compensating Natura areas Alla n S i ms, Allar Padari

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Strategic criteria for compensating Natura areasAllanSims, Allar Padari

  2. Forest produces different goods • In addition to management goods, a forest contains and helps to: • clear water • clear air • protect against erosion • protect shore and coast • old trees • habitats for • birds • animals • rare plants • recreation areas • etc.

  3. Compensation • Management restrictions in Natura areas do not allow forest owners to get a profit as much as in unrestricted forest • Compensation is necessary to support forest owners for producing public goods • In addition to management goods, there exists Natura areas for people are willing to pay

  4. Forest and its owner • The forest owner gets compensation in managed forest through management profit for producing public goods • In restricted forest the owner produce public goods by own costs, if there exists no compensation

  5. Current method Compensation

  6. Method for compensation • The forest owner gets: • 110 €/ha, if forest area is strictly protected or • 60 €/ha for other protected forest area

  7. Properties of the method Disadvantage Advantage Simple to use • Forest areas have different values, but the method does not consider that

  8. Proposal Compensation

  9. Method for compensation • Method should consider compensation value through forest value: • Compensation value should be calculated as predictable profit from forest.

  10. Profit calculation • Profit depends on site productivity: • Forest site type, which shows potential tree species for the site • Site index, which shows wood productivity for the site

  11. Profit calculation • Forest productivity is calculated by long term forest growth simulation, where: • stand mean height, • stand mean diameter, • stand age, • stand volume and • density • are used.

  12. Profit calculation • Forest growth is simulated with mathematical growth equations with one year steps • In simulation for every year is considered thinning necessity and applied if „needed“. • Growth is simulated until final felling

  13. Profit calculation • After simulation it is calculated sum of timber assortments from thinnings and final felling • All assortments are divided into total growth period • Thus, we can find potential forest productivity for the site

  14. Profit calculation • Income is calculated by multiplying assortments values with amount of assortments (e.g. RMK mean values) • Outcome is expenses for felling and forest regeneration • A result is mean profit per year, which is mean annual money damage for a forest owner

  15. Profit calculation • According to this method, money damage range is 0 – 220 €/ha. • Thus, for some forest owners, who's forests are in fertile areas, the compensation differences are big. • Proposed method is simple to use, because forest inventory data are available and it is on matter of calculation

  16. Forest produces different goods • In addition to management goods, a forest contains and helps to: • clear water • clear air • protect against erosion • protect shore and coast • old trees • habitats for • birds • animals • rare plants • recreation areas • etc.

  17. Summary • Natura areas have values and there are willing to pay • Forest owners should not have money damages for owning such forest • Today exists the method to compensate, but it is inflexible and does not consider site productivity • A compensation method should be more an owner frendly and it is quite simple to apply

  18. Thank you for your attention!

More Related