Nonindustrial private forest owners' opinions to and awareness of energy wood market and forest-based bioenergy certification - Results of a case study from Finnish Karelia

Energy, Sustainability and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Halder, Pradipta ^a   Weckroth, Timo ^b   Mei, Qu ^a   Pelkonen, Paavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b not available   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bioenergy certification; Energy wood market; Finnish Karelia; Nonindustrial private forest owners

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMERCE; HARVESTING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SURVEYS; WOOD;

BIO-ENERGY; ENERGY WOOD; FINNISH; FOREST CERTIFICATION SCHEMES; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS;

FORESTRY;

BIOENERGY; CERTIFICATION; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STAKEHOLDER; WOOD;

COMMERCE; ENERGY; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; MARKETING; SURVEYS; WOOD;

FINLAND;

EID: 84893464056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21920567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-0567-2-19     Document Type: Article

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