20.500.12556/RUL-155932 Future possibilities for long-term business cooperation between private forest owners and forest service providers in Slovenia Private forest ownership, with small and fragmented forest properties prevailing in Europe, is affected by demographic, economic and social changes as well as by forest-related policy goals. This is reflected in the lack of knowledge about forest management, insufficient forest management and underutilization of forest resources. Considering that, business coop- eration between private forest owners and with forest service providers or managers is recog- nized as one of the key instruments to increase the efficiency of private forest management. The aim of this study is to investigate whether there is a potential for further development of forest lease as form of long-term business cooperation. In this research, interviews (n=8) were conducted with tenants who have signed long-term forest lease contracts with private forest owners in Slovenia. The results show that there are limited possibilities for further develop- ment of long-term business cooperation between private forest owners and forest service pro- viders/managers (e.g. forest lease). The results indicate that there are many benefits of long- term business cooperation for both sides, but private forest owners’ interest is questionable. If we want long-term business cooperation (forest lease) to succeed, forest lease should be rec- ognized in legislation, education about business cooperation (forest lease) should be given to public forest service employees, so they could promote forest lease and provide information to private forest owners. In addition, a connection between potential business partners should be established and examples of good practice should be promoted to gain trust between busi- ness partners, which could increase private forest owners’ interest and consequently improve private forest management and utilization of forest resources from private forests. small-scaled private forest owners business contract forest lease agreement snowball sampling zasebni lastniki gozdov razdrobljena gozdna posest pogodbe oddaja gozda v zakup metoda snežne kepe true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-04-24 10:47:46 2024-04-24 10:47:52 2024-04-25 04:14:10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 120-134 iss. 1 Vol. 79 dec. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-12-01 630*9 1736-8723 10.2478/fsmu-2023-0016 193206019 https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/fsmu-2023-0016 1 57093c63-0217-11ef-a15b-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=183066 FSMU-2023-0016.pdf FSMU-2023-0016.pdf 1 2CB9D27E04E548BE4FC6AC6E6781CA80 b50d855ee9d3bf973627435a6d8020107e6e35bd2a3874eff17f574a337d53e7 913c644a-0217-11ef-a15b-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=183067 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0