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dc.contributor.author Keskitalo, E. Carina H.
dc.contributor.author Klenk, Nicole
dc.contributor.author Bullock, Ryan
dc.contributor.author Smith, Andrea L.
dc.contributor.author Bazely, Dawn R.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-13T19:17:32Z
dc.date.available 2018-06-13T19:17:32Z
dc.date.issued 2011
dc.identifier.citation Keskitalo, E. C. H., Klenk, N., Bullock, R., Smith. A. L., and D. R. Bazley. "Preparing for and responding to disturbance: Examples from the forest sector in Sweden and Canada." Forests 2(2) (2011): 505-524. doi:10.3390/f2020505. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1999-4907
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10680/1498
dc.description.abstract Coping or adaptation following large-scale disturbance may depend on the political system and its preparedness and policy development in relation to risks. Adaptive or foresight planning is necessary in order to account and plan for potential risks that may increase or take place concurrently with climate change. Forests constitute relevant examples of large-scale renewable resource systems that have been directly affected by recent environmental and social changes, and where different levels of management may influence each other. This article views disturbances in the forest sectors of Sweden and Canada, two large forest nations with comparable forestry experiences, in order to elucidate the preparedness and existing responses to multiple potential stresses. The article concludes that the two countries are exposed to stresses that indicate the importance of the governing and institutional system particularly with regard to multi-level systems including federal and EU levels. While economic change largely results in privatization of risk onto individual companies and their economic resources (in Canada coupled with a contestation of institutional systems and equity in these), storm and pest outbreaks in particular challenge institutional capacities at administrative levels, within the context provided by governance and tenure systems. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship In Sweden, funding from the research agency FORMAS, the MISTRA Arctic Futures programme, and the Future Forests programme (funded by research agency MISTRA, the forest industries, Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) as well as from the EU for data collection is acknowledged. Ryan Bullock acknowledges funding provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and by the Mistra Arctic Futures programme for preparing this paper. en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/2/2/505
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Forests en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject adaptation en_US
dc.subject adaptive capacity en_US
dc.subject Sweden en_US
dc.subject Canada en_US
dc.subject forestry en_US
dc.subject economic crisis en_US
dc.subject forest pests en_US
dc.subject storms en_US
dc.title Preparing for and Responding to Disturbance: Examples from the Forest Sector in Sweden and Canada en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.3390/f202050


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