The introduction provides an overview of a wide range of definitions of entrepreneurship and a brief overview of the situation and issues through institutional and legislative review. The second chapter presents the key features of forestry entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia. The main...

Most forest owners in Croatia have forest holdings smaller than 1 ha, while less than 1% have holdings larger than 10 ha. Parcelization of forest holdings in addition to small size presents significant limitation for forest management. Therefore, important aim of forest policy is to stimulate...

Forest roads permanently open the forest and allow for its rational management. In addition to road construction, regular and periodic maintenance is necessary to allow use in all weather conditions. Maintenance costs depend on several factors, primarily the quality of construction, the road...

During the last fifteen years, there has been an impressive increase in the scope of mountain biking in Israel, particularly evident in the significant investments in open spaces and forest infrastructures, and the sociological changes of the cyclists themselves. Regarding trends in different rural ...

Boundaries between private and state-owned forests have been a problem since forestry company „Hercegbosanske šume" d.o.o. Kupres was founded. Nobody has been looking for the solution of that problem for 20 years and more. There is a specific situation in Canton 10 because of the presence of all...

Controlling of machinery in performing forest works represents a development of business management systems, supervision of working time of machinery and vehicles and analysis of data collected as a basis for making business decisions. This system is connected with other informatic systems (of...

This research was conducted to evaluate the applicability of using the digital aerial images of high spatial resolution (ground sampling distance-GSD of 10 cm and 30 cm) for predicting forest stand attributes (basal-area weighted mean dbh-DBHg, Lorey's mean height-H_L, stand density-N, basal area-G, ...

The analysis of the Croatian forest-based industries shows very unfavourable structure with mostly small and sub-rational saw-mill capacities that are supplying the European furniture industry. Although the forest-based industries in Croatia are important exporter, mostly of primary and secondary...

This paper gives an overview of good solutions and arrangements in forestry entrepreneurship. The review is based on the available literary sources and it mainly presents the FAO and UNECE document entitled "Good Practice in Contract Labor in Forestry". In the introductory part of the paper, apart...

The use of non-wood forest products could support development of rural areas and encourage organised picking, processing and development of new business activities, especially by small and medium entrepreneurs. Within the aim of business environment research for the development of non-wood forest...