Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context
Conservation of forest resources is a prerequisite for sustainable development of human society, both in the context of preventing negative climate change and for economic growth. The study aims to establish or refute the co-dependence between the level of forest cover in European countries and the...
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| author | Olena Dobrovolska Knut Schmidtke Viktoriia Hnatushenko Svitlana Sytnyk Iryna Dmytriieva |
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| description | Conservation of forest resources is a prerequisite for sustainable development of human society, both in the context of preventing negative climate change and for economic growth. The study aims to establish or refute the co-dependence between the level of forest cover in European countries and the production of gross domestic product. The study object is the socio-economic systems of the national economies of European countries in relation to the totality of forest resources of the continent. Studying the dynamics of forest cover indicators (the share of forests in the total area of the country and forest area per capita), weighted within the internationally recognized regions of Europe, it is confirmed that the level of forest cover of European countries is gradually increasing. The analysis of forest fire area maps identifies three main groups by the level of vulnerability to forest fires: safe (Northern European countries), conditionally safe (Western European countries), and dangerous (Eastern and Southern European countries).Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, and Finland show a direct correlation between the level of forest cover of a country’s territory and gross domestic product. The results of cluster analyses based on the data from 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2020 confirm the existence of a stable cluster of European countries (34 countries) in which there is one type of relationship between the production of gross domestic product and the level of forest cover of the territory.
AcknowledgmentThis study was funded by the grant support from the Philipp Schwarz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d69ae20440e9451aa0cc57d8dfb4268b2025-01-20T12:26:48ZengLLC "CPC "Business Perspectives"Environmental Economics1998-60411998-605X2024-08-01152779210.21511/ee.15(2).2024.0620608Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European contextOlena Dobrovolska0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4159-8446Knut Schmidtke1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1942-5602Viktoriia Hnatushenko2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5304-4144Svitlana Sytnyk3https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7369-3227Iryna Dmytriieva4https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3298-7563Doctor of Economics, Professor, Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Sciences (HTWD) Dresden, GermanyProf. Dr. agr., Professor of Organic Farming, University of Applied Sciences (HTWD) Dresden, GermanyDoctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Institute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformation, Visiting Professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover, GermanyDoctor of Agriculture Science, Associate Professor, Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University, Ukraine; Visiting Professor at the Bielefeld University, GermanyPh.D. of TechnicalScience, Assistant Professor, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, UkraineConservation of forest resources is a prerequisite for sustainable development of human society, both in the context of preventing negative climate change and for economic growth. The study aims to establish or refute the co-dependence between the level of forest cover in European countries and the production of gross domestic product. The study object is the socio-economic systems of the national economies of European countries in relation to the totality of forest resources of the continent. Studying the dynamics of forest cover indicators (the share of forests in the total area of the country and forest area per capita), weighted within the internationally recognized regions of Europe, it is confirmed that the level of forest cover of European countries is gradually increasing. The analysis of forest fire area maps identifies three main groups by the level of vulnerability to forest fires: safe (Northern European countries), conditionally safe (Western European countries), and dangerous (Eastern and Southern European countries).Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, and Finland show a direct correlation between the level of forest cover of a country’s territory and gross domestic product. The results of cluster analyses based on the data from 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2020 confirm the existence of a stable cluster of European countries (34 countries) in which there is one type of relationship between the production of gross domestic product and the level of forest cover of the territory. AcknowledgmentThis study was funded by the grant support from the Philipp Schwarz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.https://www.businessperspectives.org/images/pdf/applications/publishing/templates/article/assets/20608/EE_2024_02_Dobrovolska.pdfcluster analysiseconomic developmentforest coverforest damageforest firesGDP production |
| spellingShingle | Olena Dobrovolska Knut Schmidtke Viktoriia Hnatushenko Svitlana Sytnyk Iryna Dmytriieva Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context Environmental Economics cluster analysis economic development forest cover forest damage forest fires GDP production |
| title | Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context |
| title_full | Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context |
| title_fullStr | Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context |
| title_short | Relationship between economic development, forest resources, and forest fires: European context |
| title_sort | relationship between economic development forest resources and forest fires european context |
| topic | cluster analysis economic development forest cover forest damage forest fires GDP production |
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