This proceedings contains sixteen papers detailing the role of forests, the goals of forest management and the objectives of public policies addressing sustainable forest management. Specifically, issues like legal aspects of different types of forest land tenure, legal regulations of forest...

These proceedings contain 17 papers on forest law and environmental legislation, with emphasis on West Balkan countries. Topics covered include the development of forest legislation and implementation of forest policy while considering both forestry and nature conservation concerns at public and/or ...

Forests, as a resource, have an important role in the economic development of Serbia. This paper provides an overview of the Laws on forests in the last two decades, with special emphasis on articles of the law and innovations that were introduced in each of them, which are important for forestry...

This paper deals with the definition of legal and economic concept of property rights in the case of forest resources and, moreover, it analyses the public access to forests using an example on access and exclusion rights in the Slovak Republic. The introductory part of the paper describes general...

The development of Ukraine's forestry calls for improving the legal, economic and organizational mechanisms designed for implementing Ukraine's forest policy and for applying modern methods of economic analysis with which to take optimal managerial decisions at all levels of management over the ...

The paper analyzes the status and trends of the major forestry sector in Belarus, identifies priorities for improving the economic mechanism and organizational structure of the forest sector. The role of the forest sector in the national economy and the main challenges of intersectoral cooperation. ...

Turkish forestry legislations can be historically analyzed in two periods: The first period is the era of the Ottoman Empire, and the second one has begun with the foundation of the Republic of Turkey and extends to present days. However, this study is mainly focused on the period of the Ottoman...

Forest owners' cooperatives and the union of forest owners' cooperatives are the leading organization of Japanese private forestry. They have a hundred years of history and strong legal grounds. Under the downward trend of domestic forest sector, importance of forest owners' cooperatives has been...

In Turkey, forest lands cover 21,5 million ha or 27,2 percent of the national territory. Almost half of these forest resources are degraded and the other half is productive. In Turkey, there are three types of forest ownership: State, private and forests belong to public legal entities other than...

This paper presents and discusses the recent (from 1999 onwards) experiences and results in development of forest legislation reforms of selected West Balkans' countries in which authors of the paper had worked or are still working as international experts or advisors. The countries are Bosnia and...