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Future possibilities for long-term business cooperation between private forest owners and forest service providers in Slovenia Cover

Future possibilities for long-term business cooperation between private forest owners and forest service providers in Slovenia

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|Apr 2024

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1. Basic characteristics

1.1 Reasons for choosing forest leasing among different business models
1.2 Setting up reasons
1.3 Organizational structure
1.4 Service provision for private forest owners
1.5 Problems
1.6 Forest owners’ characteristics
1.7 Possibilities for expanding the business model
1.8 Forest owners’ involvement in forest management

2. Opinion about business cooperation (forest leasing)

2.1 Contribution to forest owners’ wishes
2.2 Prevalence of forest leasing
2.3 Interest of different stakeholders (SFS, state, forest owners, timber purchasers)
2.4 Operational environment
2.5 Problems of operational environment
2.6 Prepositions for future development

3. Forest leasing and wood mobilization

3.1 Contribution to wood mobilization
3.2 Facilitating factors
3.3 Hindering factors
3.4 Contribution to climate change
3.5 Contribution to wood mobilization

4. Other

Challenges in forest lease_

Challenges for tenantsChallenges for PFOs
Possible conflicts with PFOsPossible conflicts with tenants
Lack of trust in tenants because of previous bad experienceLack of trust in tenants because of previous bad experience
Insufficient operational environment – establishing contact with PFOs
Insufficient operational environment – lack of information about business cooperation
High financial and human investment required

Benefits from forest lease_

Benefits for tenantsBenefits for PFOs
New employment opportunitiesIncome from forests
Long-term contracts and guaranteed incomeDirect communication and no middlemen could provide financial benefits for PFO
Shared responsibilityEmotional satisfaction
Enables forest management for absent PFOs (they live abroad or far away from their forest)
Enables forest management in co-owned forests
Shared responsibility
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fsmu-2023-0016 | Journal eISSN: 1736-8723 | Journal ISSN: 1406-9954
Language: English
Page range: 120 - 134
Published on: Apr 13, 2024
Published by: Estonian University of Life Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2024 Zala Uhan, Nike Krajnc, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, published by Estonian University of Life Sciences
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