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Service-Dominant Logic Driven Services for Family Forest Owners—The Present and the Potential

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Services in Family Forestry

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Forest owner services face pressures put to these services from various societal directions. Urbanization, alienation from self-made forest management, rising climate and environmental concerns etc. all challenge the traditional forest services of different sector service providers. This chapter aims to tackle the future of the forest owner services by first, building a theoretical model on the ideas developed by Vargo and Lusch (Journal of Marketing 68:1–7, 2004) to discuss economic exchange relationships. The chapter then proceeds to build a view on the scholarly literature of forest owner services. It the compares the developed model with the scholarly material. Thus, discussing the services from the service-dominant logic derived perspectives of logic of value creation, exchange content of the family forest owner—service provider encounters, and the logic of exchange builds a view on how the services could become more value (co-) creation orientated. The results suggest that the S-D logic view has good potential in describing possible new forest owner services. The new services can be born out of three different developmental paths. First, new forest owner groups emerge with new demands concerning their forest management and multi-use objectives (value path), second forest resources become an increasingly important tool to fight climate change (policy path), and third Technological change results in new tools to evaluate, utilize and manage family forests (technology path).

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    One might think of 3D biodiversity models of one’s forests with the forest owner having a possibility to enter the virtual forest, non-forest product markets with compensation to those entering location data of berries, mushrooms and other similar produce, and even live data of forest management operations been done.

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Berghäll, S., Roos, A. (2019). Service-Dominant Logic Driven Services for Family Forest Owners—The Present and the Potential. In: Hujala, T., Toppinen, A., J. Butler, B. (eds) Services in Family Forestry. World Forests, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28999-7_8

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