Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oulu UAS) manages the three-year HyvAMO-project (The Regional Forest Programme as an Acceptable and Influencing Process). The aim of the project is to develop the compiling of regional forest programmes (RFP). The project was launched in 2007 and it both collects views on good practice and produces recommendations and support material for the regional forest councils. The aim is to develop the compiling, realization and evaluation of regional forest programmes as an influencing, acceptable and cooperative process.

In the project, the role of regional forest programmes in different processes is studied and evaluated. Such processes are for example forestry, the use of wood in peat lands or voluntary nature conservation. The project also finds out the opinions of different parties about how they should be able to take part in the compiling of the programme.

HyvAMO-project is carried out as cooperation between a group of researchers and the developers of the regional forest programme. Other parties in the project are "The methods and processes of decision making" -research group in Forest Research Institute, the Department of Forest Resource Management in University of Helsinki and the The Faculty of Forest Sciences at the University of Joensuu.

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