Looking for ways to set up associations for private forest owners in Western Balkan countries

The starting point of the project ‘PRIFOR’ is the lack of voluntary private forest owners’ associations in the six Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. This is still the situation despite the fact that eleven years ago the transition to market economy and private ownership was expressed by the restitution of private forests to their former owners.

Consequently the project aims to evaluate the preconditions for the formation of self-supporting interest associations of private forest owners in the Western Balkan region. It also aims at a better understanding of private forest owners and common forest property regimes (community forests) with regard to the following acreage and geography, silviculture and economic management (in comparison to state forests), legislation and socio-economic characteristics.

The project is coordinated by Prof.Dr. Peter Glück from University of Agriculture, Vienna, and it involves researchers from all the six Western Balkan countries mentioned above. The project is funded by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management.

Media Contact

Anu Ruusila alfa

All latest news from the category: Agricultural and Forestry Science

Back to home

Comments (0)

Write a comment

Newest articles

Lighting up the future

New multidisciplinary research from the University of St Andrews could lead to more efficient televisions, computer screens and lighting. Researchers at the Organic Semiconductor Centre in the School of Physics and…

Researchers crack sugarcane’s complex genetic code

Sweet success: Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants….

Evolution of the most powerful ocean current on Earth

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica’s ice sheets….

Partners & Sponsors