“Active forest ownership” is often understood as a masculine and timber production-centric concept. The objective of this article is to study how women forest owners perceive the concept of “active forest ownership”. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted to study these questions. The interviews were analysed through the framework of feminist political ecology focusing specifically to different scales. The findings suggest that “active forest owner” is a more diverse concept for women forest owners than that described in Finnish forest policies or research. The definition includes feminine concepts like “taking care” of forests and understands that “being aware of forests” is a key part of being “active forest owner”. Furthermore, the intimate, family and local environment scales were crucial in impacting women's active forest ownership. These results indicate that forest policies would need to include a wider perspective of “active forest ownership” to address a larger proportion of forest owners and create more inclusive policies that could empower women.

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积极的森林所有权——芬兰女性森林所有者的看法

“积极的森林所有权”通常被理解为一个男性化的、以木材生产为中心的概念。本文的目的是研究女性森林所有者如何看待“积极森林所有权”的概念。为了研究这些问题，进行了二十二次半结构化访谈。这些访谈是通过女权主义政治生态学的框架进行分析的，专门针对不同的尺度。研究结果表明，对于女性森林所有者来说，“积极的森林所有者”是一个比芬兰森林政策或研究中描述的概念更加多样化的概念。该定义包括“照顾”森林等女性概念，并理解“意识到森林”是“积极的森林所有者”的关键部分。此外，亲密、家庭和当地环境尺度对于影响妇女积极拥有森林所有权至关重要。这些结果表明，森林政策需要纳入更广泛的“积极森林所有权”视角，以解决更大比例的森林所有者问题，并制定更具包容性的政策，赋予妇女权力。