1. Swedish Forest Agency
Anna Marntell & Catrin Sandberg
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Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund

2. I / Applicable law
Land owners
• Same Laws for all kinds
State
of forest land 16%
independent of owner.
Private land
39%
Company
land
• Right of common access 45%
(recreation).
• Normally user = owner
• Sveaskog, largest
• Sami people and reindeer
landowner in Sweden
husbandry rigths
(state owned company)
• Privately owned nature
reserves (restrictions)
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3. Relations: Land / Owner
• Nearly all land and water Public access
• Common lands enclosure reforms and taxation
pointed out owners
• Agricultural land Big farms or forests
• Common grazing land Forests
• Shieldings Cultural remaints in forests
• Forests usufructs (firewood and timber)
Private owned
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4. Relations: Owner / User
• Rigth of public access,
independent of owner.
• Owner and users almost
all the time the same
• Sami people reindeer
husbandry and private
nature reserves
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5. SWOT analysis
• STRENGHTS • OPPORTUNITIES
• Large forests and rich wildlife available to • Cultural heritage as a tourism resource in
the public, protected shorelines the forest
• Swedish forest policy (equal goals) • Adventure/Outdoor tourism
• Same exising regulations for all forest land • Climate change??
• Recreation part of the lifestyle (maps) • Healthier population
•
• WEAKNESSES
The rigth of public access no law • THREATS
• Swedish forestry act §30 (environmental • Climate change??
concern) difficult to specify in advance • Political decisions and state budget
• Lack of data in GIS for ex. Cultural • Overuse and increased tourism migth
remaints and key habitats damage sensible sites
• Green forest management plans = private • Court system does not give priority
property enough to environmental issues
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6. II/ Model area / our region
Brief history
• Ice-age to modern time
Present time:
• Sustainable forestry equal
production and
environmental goals
• Large in size – small in
population 77 000 km2, 5
inhabitants per km2.
• Increased tourism
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7. III/ Conclusions
Rural Development
”Forest for the benefit of all”
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