Motivations behind the forest managers' decision making about mixed forests in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102841" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102841</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102841" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102841</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Motivations behind the forest managers' decision making about mixed forests in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The practice of planting even-aged spruce monoculture has long tradition in the Czech Republic. Although these stands are due to climate change expected to suffer from increasing severity and frequency of extreme weather events, their conversion has been too slow. Hence, to suggest policies that will effectively support the conversion from spruce monocultures to the recommended mixed stands, the drivers behind forest managers decision making must be understood. In this study we aim to reveal the attitudes of Czech forest managers towards even-aged spruce monocultures and mixed stands and understand the drivers behind their decision making in terms of developing mixed forests. To this end, a questionnaire survey among 52 Czech forest managers was conducted; the enterprises employing the respondents were in charge of 29% of forest land in the Czech Republic. The results showed that forest managers are well-informed about alternative mixed stands and ameliorative and soil-improving species, which they consider not only ecologically advantageous but also economically acceptable. We revealed that the decision making of forest managers is affected by a combination of multiple factors: (a) long-term experience with spruce profitability, particularly the ability to provide not only long-term income but also short term yield; (b) steady high spruce-timber tradability; (c) a steady business-as-usual mindset of forest managers; and (d) missing effective measures for preventing damage by wild ungulates.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-08078S" target="_blank" >GA18-08078S: Optimal policies under nonlinear constraints in economics of mixed forests</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Forest Policy and Economics

ISSN

1389-9341

e-ISSN

1872-7050

Volume of the periodical

144

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

102841

UT code for WoS article

000864690100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85138452114