20.500.12556/RUL-114171 How private are Europeʼs private forests? a comparative property rights analysis Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep understanding of how property rights held by private forest owners vary across Europe. We collected and analysed data on the content of property rights based on formal legal requirements existing in 31 European jurisdictions. To allow a comparison across jurisdictions, we constructed an original Property Rights Index for Forestry encompassing five rights domains (access, withdrawal, management, exclusion and alienation). We documented substantial variation of the private forest owners' rights, and notably to i) make decisions in operational management and the formulation of management goals, ii) withdraw timber resources from their forest, and iii) exclude others from the use of forest resources. We identified broad relations between the scope for decision making of private forest owners and jurisdictions' former socio-political background and geographical distribution. The variation in the content of property rights has implications for the implementation of international environmental policies, and stresses the need for tailored policy instruments, when addressing European society's rural development, the bioeconomy, climate change mitigation measures and nature protection strategies. forest management property rights index private forests comparative analysis Europe upravljanje z gozdovi premoženjske pravice indeks zasebni gozdovi Evropa primerjalne analize true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2020-02-19 12:35:07 2020-02-19 12:35:08 2025-04-11 04:18:06 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2018 0 0 Str. 535-552 Vol. 76 2018 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*92 0264-8377 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.034 5026982 25844736 1-s2.0-S0264837717305999-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S0264837717305999-main.pdf 1 2C3BB36F958408210E82F8DBBC0DF196 8b12bfecfe2907c949802230130c9ff71d2452f79bf0f98b5b75c9ed857f6764 1ed9a99c-15d9-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201685 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837717305999 0 fc86a84a-15d8-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201684 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0