Reform of Finnish Forest Legislation and the New Forest Act of 1996

2000

S. 119-131

12 Lit.Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

200063515

Forging a New Framework for Sustainable Forestry: Recent Developments in European Forest Law : IUFRO Research Group Forest Law and Environmental Legislation Selected Contributions ; Volume 10, S. 119-131

The paper deals with the reform of forest legislation in the 1990s, discusses the change of forest policy preceeding and contributing to the reform, and reviews major changes in forestry related legislation. Most of the discussion is devoted to the new Forest Act, as the core of the reformed legislative network on forests.