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...

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 ...

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...

Following the political changes of 1989, a discussion was initiated about a further orientation of the state forest policy. One of issues, which the forest policy proposed to resolve, was to increase the proportion of broadleaved species and fir in forests occurring in the territory of the Czech...