Politics of Forests

Both at the University of Joensuu, Ari Aukusti Lehtinen is a Professor of Geography and Jakob Donner-Amnell is a Researcher in Social Policy/Environmental Policy. Bjornar Saether is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Contents: Part I: Circuits of Wood and Power: Timber Frontiers and Paper Landscapes of the North: Introduction: northern forest regimes and the challenge of internationalization, Ari Aukusti Lehtinen, Jakob Donner-Amnell and Bjørnar Sæther. Part II: Canada: Freeing from the Colonial Heritage?: Requiem for a 'local' champion: globalization, British Columbia's forest economy and MacMillan Bloedel, Roger Hayter; Beyond L'Erreur boréale: the forest industry, environmentalism and image production in Québec, Canada, L. Anders Sandberg, Nicolas Houde and Patrick Lavoie. Part III: Russian Forest Industry: Eroding the Patrimonial Hegemony: Russian Taiga: regional fabrication of the Federal Forest Regime, Ari Aukusti Lehtinen; Forest regimes as heterogeneous networks: polarization of the Russian forest industry, Jarmo Kortelainen; Shifting between the East and the West, switching between scales: forest-industrial regimes in northwest Russian borderlands, Juha Kotilainen; Co-managing the Taiga: Russian forests and the challenge of international environmentalism, Maria Tysiachniouk and Jonathan Reisman. Part IV: Nordic Forest Regimes: Success and its Price: To be or not to be Nordic? how internationalization has affected the character of the forest industry and forest utilization in the Nordic countries, Jacob Donner-Amnell; The emergence of two national concepts and their convergence toward a common Nordic regime in the global forest industry, Christer Peterson; From national to global agenda: the expansion of Norske Skog 1962-2003, Bjørnar Sæther. Part V: Conclusions: Comparing the forest regimes in the Conifer North, Jacob Donner-Amnell, Ari Aukusti Lehtinen and Bjørnar Sæther; Index.