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Institutional economic analysis and approaches to improve organization and management in small-scale private forest
Project
Project code: TI-WF-08-PID2226
Contract period: 01.02.2020
- 30.11.2023
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
In the research project, the framework for the management of small-scale private forests is to be investigated. The aim is to make recommendations for its further development.
Sustainable forest management in Germany provides numerous ecosystem services. The responsibility for this is largely in the hands of private forest owners. 48 percent of the 11.4 million hectares of forest in Germany are privately owned. The largest share of it - around a quarter of Germany's forest area - is made up of so-called small-scale private forests with areas of less than 20 hectares. The research project is based on the central hypothesis that the existing institutional, legal and economic framework conditions often do not meet the needs of small-scale private forest owners. For this reason, the management of small-scale private forests does not take place because it is no longer profitable from the individual perspective of the owners. Therefore, the collaborative project aims to: a) to systematically describe the legal, social and economic framework conditions in small private forests b) to empirically analyze the factors influencing the choice of management and organizational form, and c) to analyze them in terms of institutional economics, and d) to investigate the effects of institutional arrangements on forestry decisions.
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Forestry
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)
