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Library ResourceJanuary, 2014Finland
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Egypt, United States of America, Chile, Sweden, Germany, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, France, Uruguay, Thailand, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, Malaysia, Italy, India, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Austria
This note presents highlights and recent trends in data for each of the main product groups, as well as a short summary of recent changes or improvements in statistics.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2012Finland
Increasing dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in lakes, rivers and streams in northern mid latitudes have been widely reported during the last two decades, but relatively few studies have dealt with trends in DOC export. We studied the export of DOC from Finnish rivers to the Baltic Sea between 1975 and 2010, and estimated trends in DOC fluxes (both flow normalised and non-normalised). The study encompassed the whole Finnish Baltic Sea catchment area (301,000km²) covering major land use patterns in the boreal zone.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1999Egypt, Estonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Sweden, Ukraine, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Finland, Japan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Poland, Netherlands, Russia, Norway, France, Europe
This report presents the outcome of a macroeconomic survey of the forest sector of the Republic of Latvia. It presents issues and parameters facing public and private sector decision-makers in their respective attempts to develop this sector. It identifies opportunities and constraints to investment and proposes measures to, accordingly, either engage them or remove them. It also attempts to introduce simple methodologies to undertake analysis currently constrained by the absence of more comprehensive data.
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Library ResourceLegislationFinland, Europe, Northern Europe
The amendments of the principal Act concern, inter alia, the acquisition of lands which may be used for the purposes indicated in the Act on Agricultural Production Units (188/77), the Reindeer Breeding Act (161/90) and the Rural Activities Act (1295/90) (sects. 8 and 9), use of land for other purposes as indicated in those Acts (sect. 16), Disposition Plans for the land acquired (sect. 19), the determination of such Plans by District Agricultural Offices (sect. 22), land survey (sect. 23), price of the land (sect. 28), terms of loans (sect.
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Markanvändnings- och bygglag.
LegislationFinland, Europe, Northern EuropeThe objective of this Act is to ensure that the use of land and water areas and building activities on them create preconditions for a favourable living environment and promote ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable development. The Act also aims to ensure that everyone has the right to participate in the preparation process, and that planning is high quality and interactive, that expertise is comprehensive and that there is open provision of information on matters being processed. Objectives in land use planning are set out in section 5.
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Library ResourceLegislationFinland, Europe, Northern Europe
The amendments concern the application of provisions of building laws for the protection of landscape. Such provisions shall not apply to areas for which a general or detailed plan is in force. The other amendment prohibits the installing of advertisement constructions, etc. outside areas the planning of which is governed by a detailed plan.
Amends: Nature Conservation Act (No. 1096 of 1996). (2011-06-10)
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Library ResourceLegislationFinland, Europe, Northern Europe
The amendments of the principal Act concern the responsibility of the State to pay compensation for, and in particular for assessment of compensation in the case no settlement can be reached, the assessment of projects and plans on significant adverse effect on the ecological value a site included in, or proposed by the Council of State for inclusion in, the Natura 2000 network. Section 66 concerns granting of permits to implement a project and adoption and ratification of plans
Amends: Nature Conservation Act (No. 1096 of 1996). (2011-06-10)
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Library ResourceLegislationFinland, Europe, Northern Europe
The objective of this Act is to organize a national information service concerning real estate and other units of land and water areas based on information technology. This service is implemented by means of a centralized Land Information System which is intended for public use. The Land Information System comprises data referred to in the Cadastre Register Act (392/1995) and data entered into the land register as well as other data as laid down in other legislation.
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Lag om hypoteksföreningar.
LegislationFinland, Europe, Northern EuropeThe Act regulates the establishment and administration of mortgage societies. A mortgage society is a credit institution referred to in the Act on Credit Institutions (1607/1993). It may be established for public purposes. Its particular purpose shall be to use funds mostly acquired as long-term loans to grant long-term loans mainly against a mortgage or other safeguarding collateral. Mortgage societies shall be entered into the Trade Register. The decision-making power of the members of a mortgage society shall be used by the members present at the meeting of the society.
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