Regional forest organizations and their innovation impact on forestry and regional development in central Switzerland

Seeland, Klaus; Godat, Joël; Hansmann, Ralf

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.03.010

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“…Fragmentation and the extremely small size of holdings do not favour profitable forest management. As Seeland et al (2011) mentioned in a Swiss example, there are significant differences between the economic positions of forest owners who join associations of small owners and those who chose not to. Many small forest owners associations in the CZ were established thanks to the existing financial support for an association process.…”

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Analysis of the sectoral innovation system for forestry of the Czech Republic. Does it even exist?

Jarský

2015

Forest Policy and Economics

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Analysis of the sectoral innovation system for forestry of the Czech Republic. Does it even exist?

Jarský

2015

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…The development of CSF in Swiss forestry was observed over the last 30 years as a response to climate change and increasing demand for ES (Seeland et al, 2011). Swiss collective forestry regime is open to innovative solutions and promoting cost-effective forest management practices.…”

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Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry

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As European mountain forests are a significant world carbon stock and sequester, they have a prominent position in climate policies and climate smart forestry (CSF) implementation. However, forest ecosystem services (ES) that are public or common goods (i.e., of carbon sequestration) face a traditional social dilemma of individual versus collective interests, which often generate conflicts, and result in the overuse of ES and resource depletion. In this article, we elaborate a conceptual analytical framework and use it in case studies selected in European mountain areas to analyse the potential of socio-ecological systems to develop CSF. Collective self-organized forestry regimes, as a form of social innovation, are the main focus, compared with centrally governed state regimes and forest management practices in municipal forests. A conceptual framework to analyse collective self-organized regimes and compare these with other CSF-applicable forestry regimes is elaborated using a mixed-method approach, centered around the estimation of carbon sequestration potential. The results indicate that collective self-organized forestry regimes can play a role in fostering the transition of European forestry towards CSF.

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“…Much research deals with cooperation between private forest owners (e.g. Fischer et al 2019, Górriz-Mifsud et al 2019, Pezdevšek Malovrh 2010, Pezdevšek Malovrh et al 2017, Põllumäe et al 2016, Rauch 2007) and mostly analyzes PFOAs with the aim of understanding the influence of various factors on the willingness of private forest owners to cooperate in PFOAs (Pezdevšek Malovrh et al 2010), the reasons for establishing PFOAs (Sarvašová et al 2015, Schraml 2005, factors that influenced the establishment, development, professionalism and efficiency of PFOAs (Černač and Pezdevšek Malovrh 2020, Fabra-Crespo and Rojas-Briales 2015, Glück et al 2010, Kronholm 2016, Leban 2014, Lönnstedt 2014, Pezdevšek Malovrh and Laktić 2017, Sarvašová et al 2015, the motives of private forest owners and their benefits for joining PFOA (Hrib et al 2018, Pezdevšek Malovrh et al 2011, Põllumäe et al 2014, the effects of PFOAs on forest management (Hansmann et al 2016, Seeland et al 2011, and the role of stakeholders (Aurenhammer 2017a, Aurenhammer et al 2017b, Šálka et al 2016. These studies provide important insights into the state of the art of PFOAs, but mainly focus on only one organizational form of cooperation.…”

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Private Forest Owner's Cooperation in Machinery Ring

Malovrh

Krajnc

Triplat

2022

Croat. j. for. eng. (Online)

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Legislation and policy makers have recognized private forest owners cooperation in machinery ring as an instrument to support wood mobilization through efficient use of machinery. The study analyzes private forest owner's cooperation in the machinery ring in Slovenia and determines whether this cooperation contributes to wood mobilization from small-scale private forests. The research was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the survey was conducted among the members of machinery rings at their annual general meetings (24 machinery rings participated in the survey, representing 64.9% of the total number of machinery rings). The questionnaire was distributed to all members present at the annual general meetings (n=529) and only those who were private forest owner or provided services within machinery rings were eligible to complete the questionnaire (n=438). In the second phase, data on the amount of service provided by machinery ring members were compared with the amount of felling in private forests for 2019 to gain insight into the extend of forestry work (timber harvesting) carried out in a private forest under neighbourhood assistance.The results show that machinery rings members are predominantly male, on average 50 years old, mainly with high school education and occupation in agriculture, owning on average 15.2 ha of forest. Regardless of forest management activities, machinery ring members perform forest management activities in their forest by themselves or with the help of family members. Only a small proportion of members use neighbourhood assistance to carry out the work. This most often occurs in the transport of timber. A very small proportion of members provide forest services through the machinery ring, but their scope of services is not insignificant. In 2019, machinery ring members most often performed harvesting activities with the chain saw, followed by timber skidding as a service. Equipment with machinery for providing services is good among members – about three quarters of them have a chainsaw and an adapted agricultural tractor, but this machinery is quite old, showing that machinery is insufficiently used for forestry operations. The results show that machinery rings are nowadays an essential part of strategic (operational) management in Slovenian agriculture and forestry, and provide important insights into the possibilities to improve forestry operations and the future development cooperation between private forest owners in machinery rings to support wood mobilization from small-scale private forests.

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Regional forest organizations and their innovation impact on forestry and regional development in central Switzerland

Cited by 20 publications

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Analysis of the sectoral innovation system for forestry of the Czech Republic. Does it even exist?

Analysis of the sectoral innovation system for forestry of the Czech Republic. Does it even exist?

Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry

Private Forest Owner's Cooperation in Machinery Ring

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