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How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis

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Public canonical key

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.034

Authors

Liviu Nichiforel · Kevin Keary · Philippe Deuffic · Gerhard Weiss · Bo Jellesmark Thorsen · Georg Winkel · Mersudin Avdibegović · Zuzana Dobšinská · Diana Feliciano · Paola Gatto · Elena Górriz‐Mifsud · Marjanke Hoogstra-Klein · Michal Hríb · Teppo Hujala · László Jáger · Vilém Jarský · Krzysztof Jodłowski · Anna Lawrence · Diana Lukminė · Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh · Jelena Nedeljković · Dragan Nonić · Silvija Krajter Ostoić · Klaus Pukall · Jacques Rondeux · Theano Samara · Zuzana Sarvašová · Ramona Elena Scriban · Rita Šilingienė · Milan Šinko · Makedonka Stojanovska · Vladimir Stojanovski · Nickola Stoyanov · Meelis Teder · Birger Vennesland · Lelde Vilkriste · Erik Wilhelmsson · Jerylee Wilkes‐Allemann · Laura Bouriaud

Reported year

2018

Reported language

en

Source type

article

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2026-11-09T19:15:02.363094+00:00

Last metadata observation

2026-11-09T19:15:02.363094+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Aalto University · BOKU University · Croatian Forest Research Institute · Czech University of Life Sciences Prague · Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine · ETH Zurich · Estonian University of Life Sciences · European Forest Institute · Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia · Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech · Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture · Institute for Environmental Decisions · Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa · Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava" · Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry · National Forest Centre · Natural Resources Institute Finland · Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research · Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences · Technical University of Munich · Technická univerzita vo Zvolene · University of Aberdeen · University of Belgrade · University of Copenhagen · University of Eastern Finland · University of Forestry · University of Liège · University of Ljubljana · University of Padua · University of Sarajevo · University of Sopron · University of the Highlands and Islands · Wageningen University & Research · Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Documentary abstract — original language

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.

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OPENALEX

W2793108789

DOI

10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.034

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Scholarship

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article

Natural entities mentioned

Forest · Ecosystem

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Sources

OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.034
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W2793108789

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