This study assessed forest dependence and its determinants among forest households in Southwest, Nigeria. Primary data was used for the study and multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 294 forest households in the study area. Data were collected using questionnaire while descriptive...

The aim of the article is to outline public goods and bads from agriculture and forestry in the South Central Planning Region. There is a wide range of public bads and goods related to agriculture. Many of public goods are highly valued in the region. The most important are: agricultural...

One of the well-known methods of assessing forest land is to determine the average local price of the regulated plots and to deduct the costs of converting the forest property into a building site. The method is usable if the permission to develop the estate is given or can be considered certain....

The biomass is a transformed form of solar energy, contained in the vegetal and animal organisms. It serves people as a direct source of food, energy, building materials etc. By its nature the biomass is one of the most important accumulators of solar energy and its total composition is determined...

Experience of different European countries in application of coppice with standards has been studied - incl. essence of this silvicultural system, forestry aims, the most commonly used tree species, methods and stages for creation of coppice with standards forests, shape, structure and...

The aim of the present study is to trace and analyse some typical processes related to income and employment of the population in rural regions of Bulgaria in the last ten years and to outline the main problems in this direction. Employment in all economic activities in total for all regions...

The aim of the study is to find out alternative opportunities in their general view - which of the possible values to be considered and which ones not in order to optimize the productivity function of the forests within the limits of the present resources and norms. The productivity function itself ...

On the basis of inquiry and implementation of χ²-method is established that the economic conflicts in the Bulgarian forestry sector are due to ineffective distribution of the income from timber use. For their surmounting the rational organized enterprises, which actions are based on strict...

The elaborated methodology for forest survey projects, the collected information and the obtained results of the sustainable forestry development economic assessment of the Educational-Experimental State Forest Range "Petrohan" in Barzia, Bulgaria, are presented. Some recommendations for the...