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...

The basic regulations of the Republic of Belarus on forest management and silviculture are presented. Data on volumes of forest exploitation from 1000 to 2010 are analised. The difference between the actual forest and official statistics is remarked. The improvement of dividing of forest land into...

This proceedings contains forty-four papers on legal situation of sustainable development of not only European forests, but also forests across the world, in Asia (including Japan, Iran, and a number of Central Asian countries) and Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso).

In the Forest Code of Ukraine displays legal, silvicultural, environmental, organizational and economic aspects of forestry in general form, which requires a level of detail with regards to laws. Legal and regulatory framework that operates the timber industry should be improved to meet modern...

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 ...

The Czech Government approved principles of state silvicultural policy on 21st November 2012. These new principles i. a. suppose to keep a share of forests for spontaneous development, e.g. in national parks, as well as an escalation of these forests share in proprietorship of the state. A part of...

The government in its programme declaration committed itself to promote efficient, but at the same time conservative ways of forest management; work out new principals of state forest policy that will be based on equal approach to proprietorship, the policy of equal opportunities of economic...

First part of the paper presents the main Slovenian forest development and forest management trends, functioning of forestry institutions and financing of the forestry system, including their positive issues and problems, in the period after 1993. The second part deals with current forest sector...

An account is given on the changes in regulations on forest and nature protection sector in 2012 and 2013 in the Republic of Latvia particularly in fields such as: tree felling practices; nature protection and forest management; microreserves; parks and forest parks; forest inventory and forest...