%0 Article
%T Development of forest economic research in Finland
%A Heikinheimo, L.
%A Ervasti, S.
%A Ahonen, L.
%D 1959
%J Acta Forestalia Fennica
%V 70
%N 9
%R doi:10.14214/aff.7499
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/7499
%X <p>This article is a review of Finnish forest research in the field of forest economics in the previous 50 years. Forest economics in Finland is comparatively young as an independent field of forest research. Not until 1922 was the office of Professor of Forest Economics established in the University of Helsinki. The Department of Forest Economics was established within the Forest Research Institute in 1928. The article presents the main fields of investigation, namely Finland’s forest resources and forest balance, forest ownership policy, forest legislation and forest taxation, forest labour, forest geography, forest industries and wood transport, marketing of forest products, and business economics of forestry.</p>
<p>The article is published in English in separate PDF Acta Forestalia Fennica vol 70 no 10.</p>