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Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-69-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-69-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
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06 May 2020
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A gift programme for sustainable forest management? A Swiss perspective on public policies and property rights

Leonard Creutzburg, Tamaki Ohmura, and Eva Lieberherr

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In Switzerland and other European countries, (small-scale) private forest owners increasingly refrain from managing their forests. However, forest management is key for meeting several ecological, social and economic aims. Against this backdrop, this paper proposes a Swiss forest gift programme inspired by the Ecological Gifts Program (EGP) in Canada, which would result in a change of forest ownership so that forests could subsequently be managed sustainably to meet the various demands.
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