The effects of property transformation on forestry entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of Slovakia

Šálka, Jaroslav; Longauer, Roman; Lacko, Milan

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2005.06.017

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“…This in turn is the root cause of much conflict (Skutsch 2000), either within the community (Brehm 2007), with institutions (Ibarra & Hirakuri 2007) or with energy companies (De Jong et al 2006). As such, adjusting to a new socioeconomic situation has led to significant changes in land use and in traditional management practices within an unstable legal, financial and demographic framework (Hoogstra et al 2004, Ziegenspeck et al 2004, Pardo & Gil 2005, Salka et al 2006. GROUP 2 was the third largest group, and showed a balance between the news items reported due to management, and those due to conflict.…”

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Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

Pérez¹,

Díaz-Varela²,

Calvo-González³

2015

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© iForest -Biogeosciences and Forestry IntroductionIn a modern sense, public participation in devising forest management is voluntary. Within public participation processes, people, individually or in organized groups, can exchange information, express opinions and articulate interests with the aim of influencing the final result in decision making (ILO 2000, Aasetre 2006, Atmis et al. 2007. It is both an opportunity and a need for today's society, as it is a useful tool to avoid conflicts, share information and encourage good relations with the planning team (Hellström 2001, Kangas & Store 2003, Santos et al. 2006, Janse & Konijnendijk 2007, Hiltunen et al. 2009, Cantiani 2012. Public participation contributes to democratization through the reinforcement of transparency in decision making: it increases plurality of aims, encourages mutual learning and increases the awareness of collective responsibility for natural resource management questions (Elsasser 2002, Kangas et al. 2010, Lennox et al. 2011).According to Ostrom & Nagendra (2006), sustainable governance of natural resources is a challenging task, in which "major debates occur over what types of policy interventions best protect forests, with choices of property and land tenure systems being central issues" and natural resource management can be approached from different views. There are regional differences in practical approaches to biodiversity conflict management because the social, political and economic characteristics of a culture influence the type of conflicts and the response to them (Hellström 2001). In this context, conflicts are confrontations between opposing values and objectives of the stakeholders in the sustainable management of natural resources (Bojórquez-Tapia et al. 2004), often caused by different perceptions of the initial situation of the resources discussed (Gritten et al. 2009). Following Skutsch (2000, conflicts over biodiversity should be regarded as inherent in social participation, reinforcing the ideas of Hellström (2001), which are seen as an important part of the decisionmaking process on how to use the natural resources.Conflicts usually have negative effects on forest management (Druckman 2005). However, the key to understanding and to the new social demands in forest areas (Hellström 2001) lies in the nature of conflicts. Many authors have analyzed conflicts in forest areas (Elands et al. 2004, Maskey et al. 2006, Djamhuri 2008, Schlueter 2008. White et al. (2009) developed a new and innovative framework aimed at improving the conceptual understanding of biodiversity conflicts. This method is based on the analysis of ecological, economic and social factors that affect the behavior of the biodiversity actors responsible for the conflict. This system is useful in developing strategic models to improve the understanding of general conflict dynamics.The aim of the study is to classify in groups the parishes with communal forest land of the Montes Vecinales en Mano Común (MVMC), to analyze the different management levels an...

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Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

Pérez¹,

Díaz-Varela²,

Calvo-González³

2015

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“…The problem is often magnified because many forest owners have limited knowledge of forest management due to their lack of this experience prior to the transition. Nevertheless, their interest in SSF and SFM has increased since 2000 (World Bank 2003;Salka et al 2006;Gaižutis 2007;Hirsch et al 2007). …”

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Analysing the Development of Small-Scale Forestry in Central and Eastern Europe

Nijnik

Nijnik²,

Bíziková

2009

Small-scale Forestry

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“…a significant decrease in the number of employees and work machinery occurred in state-owned forestry companies. This period had also been characterized by the development of new business segments, such as the appearance and development of private contractors in forest harvesting [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. The same scenario happened in Croatia with private contractors in the field of forestry operations during the 1990s.…”

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confidence: 99%