Katarina Haugen
Umeå University
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Small-scale Forestry | 2016
Katarina Haugen; Svante Karlsson; Kerstin Westin
This paper presents a total survey of the characteristics and changes over time (1990–2010) within the entire population of Swedish non-industrial private forest owners (NIPF owners). By charting the changed demographic, socio-economic and geographic profile of the NIPF owners, it also provides a baseline for a discussion and analysis of potential implications for forest management, policy and values. NIPF owners differ in important ways from the general population of Sweden. However, the gap has narrowed over time with regard to, e.g., educational level and sex composition. The ongoing urbanization process is evident in the growing share of non-residential NIPF owners who live at a distance from their forest property and who differ from their residential (rural) peers through, e.g., higher education, higher income and a higher prevalence of co-ownership of their forest holdings. Although these changes might translate into updated views on forest values among NIPF owners, there could be a delay before this impacts on forest management practices and output.
Fennia: International Journal of Geography | 2013
Katarina Haugen; Urban Lindgren
Business start-ups are on the increase, a development which is accompanied by hopes that these new firms will generate a potential for, e.g., local and regional development and a strengthening of local labour markets as well as the national economy. However, the long-term performance and viability of new firms are often rather poor. This research aims to analyse the importance of access to assets in the form of forest holdings for the performance of Swedish micro-firms. The analyses are based on official register data and fixed-effects panel regression modelling. A hypothesis is that a firm whose owner also possesses forest holdings is more viable thanks to the different resources (in the form of capital from logging or mortgaging, or non-pecuniary other values) the forest holdings may provide, and which possibly contribute to the firm’s economic stability and resilience to economic fluctuations. From a general point of view, we find support for the hypothesis that forest assets positively and significantly influence firm performance in terms of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), but not in terms of value added. Access to forest assets is never detrimental to firm performance, although it does not have a significant positive effect in all sub-categories of entrepreneurs based on different combinations of age, gender and firm type. Particularly, the economic performance of private firms run by older men benefits from resources stemming from their forest holdings. No significant effects were found for female entrepreneurs or for limited companies. As regards regional variations, firms located outside the metropolitan regions – as compared to those at the top of the urban hierarchy – are likely to perform better, thus indicating that local development may benefit from resource transfers from the forest sector to micro-firms engaged in non-primary activities.
Archive | 2017
Kerstin Westin; Louise Eriksson; Gun Lidestav; Heimo Karppinen; Katarina Haugen; Annika Nordlund
In this chapter, changes that have taken place on an overarching level in society, such as globalisation, supranational agencies, privatisation and restitution, are discussed from the forest owners’ perspective. The forces influencing forest owners and forest ownership as described in Chap. 2 in this volume are scrutinised and interpreted here on a micro level. Urbanisation, economic restructuring, demographic change and new ownership constellations are both drivers and consequences of changes in lifestyles, forest owner identity, place attachment and attitudes to the forest resource.
Papers in regional science (Print) | 2012
Katarina Haugen; Einar Holm; Magnus Strömgren; Bertil Vilhelmson; Kerstin Westin
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research | 2011
Katarina Haugen
Transportation Research Part A-policy and Practice | 2013
Katarina Haugen; Bertil Vilhelmson
Population Space and Place | 2008
Katarina Haugen; Einar Holm; Erling Häggström Lundevaller; Kerstin Westin
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie | 2016
Katarina Haugen
Population Space and Place | 2018
Einar Holm; Kerstin Westin; Katarina Haugen
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies | 2016
Katarina Haugen; Kerstin Westin