Background and Purpose: The forest related conflicts has not been often a research topic in SEE. The first regional survey was conducted in five countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia, under the scope of the FOPER project. The aim of the study was to identify the most frequent forest related conflicts in terms of types, conflicts attributes, actors, their attitudes and power relations, as well as to investigate more in-depth nature of conflicts and the way how they’ve been managed and how it influenced forest policy development. Materials and Methods: Analytical framework consisted of progressive triangle with three conflict attributes-substance (S), relation (R) and procedure (P) [13] embedded in four conceptsculture (CU), conflicts (CO), conflict management (CM) and policy development (PD) [12]. In total 840 semi-structured interviews were sent to decision makers resulted in response rate of 60%. Results were statistically analyzed by using methods of descriptive and inferential statistics, such as correlation analysis, logistic regression and decision path models. Results and Conclusions: Analytical framework proved appropriate for studying forest related conflicts in SEE. The most frequent conflicts were between forestry and (1) Nature protection, (2) Wood processing industry, (3) Grazing and overgrazing, (4) Building and construction, and (5) Water management, with significant differences among countries involved. Conflict management depended on the culture, as an aggregate variable comprising education, professional competences, communication skills and previous experience. DIJANA VULETI] MERSUDIN AVDIBEGOVI] MAKEDONKA STOJANOVSKA RADOVAN NEVENI] HAJRI HASKA STJEPAN POSAVEC SILVIJA KRAJTER LEONIDA PERI BRUNO MARI] Croatian Forest Research Institute, Cvjetno naselje 41 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia Faculty of Forestry, University of Sarajevo, Zagreba~ka 20 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina University »St. Kiril and Method«, Faculty of Forestry Blv. Aleksandar Makedonski 66, 1000 Skopje, FYR Macedonia Institute of Forestry, Kneza Vi{eslava 3, 11030 Belgrade, Serbia Agricultural University of Tirana, Faculty of Forest Sciences 1029 Kamez Koder, Tirana, Albania Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Sveto{imunska 25, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia

UDK 630*6:630*43(497.6 Prozor-Rama)          630*43:630*6(497.6 Prozor-Rama Despite of the significant activities on the forest fires prevention, number of forest fires is constantly growing worldwide causing tremendous direct and indirect damages. Direct damages are referring to the losses on timber and other forest products, fire fighting and remediation costs as well as costs of fire sites restoration. Indirect damages are referring to the negative impacts of forest fires on various ecosystem services and overall conditions of environment. Despite of the fact that indirect damages could be far greater than direct ones, in most of the cases in Bosnia- Herzegovina, they are not included in the assessment of the damages and methodology for their calculation is not developed yet. The goal of this paper is to conduct the economic valorisation of direct and indirect damages from forest fires at the territory of Prozor-Rama municipality in 10-years period in which the scope and frequency of the forest fires were determined. The methodology that is used in this paper is developed by European experts on assessment of socio-economic damages from forest fires in Europe (PETTENELLA et al, 2008). Formula for calculation of damages of some functions and values of forests are partially modified due to the specific conditions of forest management practice and characteristics of forest stands, while some of them were excluded from assessment since they required additional research for their valuation. Calculated values of the damages are 11 times greater than those that are presented in the Register of the damages from forest fires of the Public Forest Enterprise „Šume Herceg-Bosne“. Modified method could be a sound basis for development of methodology for assessment of the damages from forest fires and total economic valuation of forest ecosystems in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

UDK 630*68(497.6)          630*9(497.6) In order to define functional model of governing of forest resources in F B-H, as well as efficient and effective organizational model of the forest enterprises, qualitative research has been conducted for the purposes of this paper. Through direct interviewing of all key forest policy decision makers in F B-H, opinions and attitudes about these questions were collected. Based on analysis of interest groups importance as well as influence and involvement in the process of creation of the functional forest governing model in F B-H - functional governing model has been proposed with clear emphasis of advantages concerning present model. Principles of sustainable governing and management of forest resources, assurance of participative approach in the process of decision making and transparency were basis for definition of functional governing model for management of forest resources. For provision of optimal model of organization of forest sector in F B-H, it has been crucial to define ecological, sociological, economical and other criteria, that user of forest resources should respect. The optimal number of organizational units, which manage forest resource on the territory of F B-H, depends from the achievement of the established criteria and real capacities for establishment of the enterprise. This would lead to further decentralization in management of forest resources in F B-H; that would have its positive effects.

Background and purpose: Caused by appearance of new stakeholders and diversification of their interests towards forests, different forest-related conflicts emerged worldwide. As a country with economy in transition and relatively young democracy, Bosnia-Herzegovina might be suitable for understanding the roots, actors and varieties of these conflicts. This paper deals with the most frequent forest-related conflicts, main actors involved as well as undertaken actions in order to manage them in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Materials and methods: The theoretical framework is based on the Conflict Management Progress Triangle consisting of three dimensions of conflict: substance, process and relations. As particular focus in this paper is given to conflicts between forestry and wood-processing industry, the primary parties in this study were public forestry companies and wood processing companies. For the purpose of this survey a special questionnaire has been designed. The survey population included the most important actors of forest and wood-processing industry as follows: ministries of forestry, nature protection and physical planning at all levels, managers/owners of wood-processing companies, managers of public forest companies and public forest administration, representatives of the most important environmental NGOs and professional associations, managers of protected areas and water management authorities, heads of forest research institutions, economy of chambers and international institutions. In total 136 questionnaires were collected, out of which 68 respondents identified conflicts between forestry and wood-processing industry as the most important ones. Discussion and conclusions: The results show that the main causes of these conflicts are: differences in demand and supply of wood assortments, way of selling of wood assortments (including quantities and delivery dynamics) as well as wood assortments prices. As the most prominent action among the undertaken ones to manage the conflicts, the respondents underlined adoption of criteria for transparent selling of wood assortments. The results of this paper might be useful for both, public forest companies and wood-processing companies. Timely identification and implementation of possible solutions in order to overcome the most pronounced conflicts would increase competitive advantages for both sides.

Private forests in Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are important resources for national economic development. Based on differences in the proportion of private forests, the countries differ substantially with regard to the role of private forest owners, as well as the conditions of owner interest associations in the forest policy processes. Since private forest owners are so diverse, there is a need to better understand their expectation for interest associations. Surveys were conducted in 2008 on random samples of private forest owners in Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to examine the factors affecting their expectations. The study examined seven categories of expectations: silvicultural advice, harvesting advice, information about timber markets, information about legal regulations, information about strengthening entrepreneurship, support of forest road construction/maintenance and forest management training. Seven models were developed to examine the factors affecting each category of expectations. The results reveal that socio-demographic characteristics of private forest owners, ownership structure, and property conditions were associated with expectations. Three models (silvicultural advice, strengthening entrepreneurship and support of forest road construction/maintenance) were statistically significant in both countries. The strongest factor that influences the expectations for Slovenian private forest owners was education while in Bosnia-Herzegovina it was property size. Gender did not influence expectations of private forest owners in either country. Understanding the underlying factors influencing private forest owner expectations could aid in developing appropriate forest policy instruments to support owner cooperation within interest associations and improve private forest management. K e y w o rd s : private forests, interest associations, private forest owner expectations, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina Š. Pezdevšek Malovrh, D. G. Hodges, B. Marić, M. Avdibegović: PRIVATE FOREST OWNER EXPECTATIONS ... Šumarski list br. 11–12, CXXXV (2011), 557-566 558 METHODS OF RESEARCH – Metode Istraživanja and legal matters to European standards, including forestry. Due to the fact that more than one-half of Europe’s forests are privately owned, significantly contributing to wood supply, private forest ownership has a central position in almost all European forest policy debates (S c h m i t h ü s e n and H i r s c h , 2010). The long period of centrally planned economies in South-East European countries hindered the development of scientifically-based knowledge on private forest issues. During the period of socialism, private forests largely were unattended and even abandoned by both national forest policy makers and forest owners. With political change and the associated processes (e.g., privatisation, restitution, denationalisation), private forest ownership now is an emerging topic in national forest policy. At the same time, the complexity of international forest policy processes resulted in new modes of forest management in which private forests owners are mobilised as a very strong interest group at the national and international levels. The demands of society on forests, including those in private ownership, are changing rapidly, increasing the urgency for improved forest conditions. Thus, the formation of interest associations is one among the solutions for private forest owners but also a logical reaction to the increasing societal demands on private forests. However, private forest owners have not established interest associations in some South-East European countries; their fate still rests mainly with public forest administration. This is not in accordance with Pluralistic theory, according to which interests groups are reflection of the society with the various interests of its members (Tr u m a n , 1951). This theory also does not explain why private forest owners are not organized in these countries. According to the Theory of Collective Action (O l s o n , 1965), rational behaving individuals support an organisation that works for the interest of its members. On the other hand, if the number of potential members (in this case private forest owners) is very large, individuals behave quite rationally if they do not join interest associations – they simply benefit as “free riders”. The phenomenon of membership in private forest owner interest associations and particularly the expectations that members have from such associations is a core research problem discussed in this paper. Compared to central and western Europe, few studies have addressed this problem in South-East European countries. A number of analysts have compared private forests in several European countries, presenting different aspects of private forest ownership, management, and policy, including the issue of private forest owner interest associations (G r a y s o n , 1993; N i s k a n e n and V ä y r y n e n , 2001; H i r s c h et. al., 2007; H ä g g l u n d , 2008; S c h m i t h ü s e n and H i r s c h , 2010 ibid.). More recently, several authors have explored the issue of private forest owner associations in South-East European countries, including the preconditions for establishing independent interest associations and member expectations (P e z d e v š e k M a l o v r h et. al, 2011; N o n i ć et. al, 2011; Av d i b e g o v i ć et. al, 2010a; Av d i b e g o v i ć et. al, 2010b; G l ü c k et. al, 2010a; G l ü c k et. al, 2010b, P e z d e v š e k M a l o v r h et. al, 2010a; P e z d e v š e k M a l o v r h , 2010b; M i l i j i ć et. al, 2010; P e z d e v š e k M a l o v r h , 2006; P e z d e v š e k M a l o v r h , 2005). Nevertheless, a significant lack of knowledge on private forest ownership persists in these countries, particularly knowledge gained from comparative studies. Specific deficiencies in previous studies include understanding the expectations of private forest owners regarding interest associations (e.g. advices, services, lobbying etc.) and the socio-demographic characteristics affecting their expectations. Private forests are important resources for national economic development for both Slovenia and BosniaHerzegovina, particularly in rural areas. Based on the differences in the share of private forests (roughly 70 % of all forests in Slovenia and only 20 % in Bosnia-Herzegovina), the experiences with private forest owner associations are quite different. Slovenian private forest owners are relatively well organized by associations, while private forest owners in Bosnia-Herzegovina are poorly represented in national forest policy deliberations due to the lack of independent interest associations. Comparing the demands of private forest owners on their interest associations in Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina can offer important information for key national forest policy actors, public forest administration, and private forest owners (particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify the expectations of private forest owners for their interest associations in these two countries as well as understand how socio-demographic characteristics, ownership structure, and property conditions affect these expectations. Similar quantitative surveys were administered to private forest owners in Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina with some variation to account for country-specific conditions. The surveys questioned owners about a range of issues related to private forest owners and management: gender, age, education, ownership structure, property size, fragmentation, harvesting activities, and expectations of their interest associations. The data were obtained from personal face-to-face interviews with randomly selected private forest owners. The surveys were conducted with some basic sample design concepts: Š. Pezdevšek Malovrh, D. G. Hodges, B. Marić, M. Avdibegović: PRIVATE FOREST OWNER EXPECTATIONS ... Šumarski list br. 11–12, CXXXV (2011), 557-566 559 – Because the majority of private forest owners in Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina neither play an important role in national forest policy processes nor have a strong economic interests in managing their forests, the target population consisted of all private forest owners, not only the so called “active” ones. – Personal data about private forest owners (name, address, attributes of their property, etc.) were identified from the Land and Property Register in Slovenia and from local forest authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. – Sample size was adequate to achieve a 5 % sampling error at the 95 % confidence level. A systematic random sample was developed for the entire private forest owner population of Slovenia, although the primary focus was on selected forest ma na gement units of the Slovenian Forest Service where private forest owner associations exist. In order to identify 690 owners for interviews, owners were divided in strata according to property size (up to 0.99 ha, from 1 to 4.99 ha, from 5 to 9.99 ha, from 10 to 29.99 ha, and more than 30 ha). The sample within strata was dis proportionate to the property structure of Slovenian private forests (Forest management plans for regional units 2000–2010). Within each stratum, owners were divided into two groups of equal size: owners who were members of interest associations and those who were not. The questionnaire was pre-tested in 2007 and the survey was conducted from May 2008 through May 2009. The sample used in the analyses consisted of 322 owners, or a response rate of 46,6 %. (P e z d e v š e k M a l o v r h , 2010b ibid). The random sample for the door-to-door survey in Bosnia-Herzegovina was drawn from overlapping areas with the highest percentage of forest areas and the highest share of private forests. This ensured that the bulk of private forest owners were included. All municipalities in Bosnia-Herzegovina were ranked by these two criteria, so the most representative municip

UDK 630*93:502(497) Within last few years, all Western Balkan countries have adopted new forest legislation aiming to introduce internationally accepted concepts of forest management. Due to specific social, political and economical realities that these countries have passed through, a number of nature protection regulations have been integrated into forest legislation. This paper compares nature protection regulations in Laws on Forests in Croatia (2005), Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002) and Serbia (2010). It examines differences and commonalities in above mentioned Laws. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the level of consistencies between Laws on Forests and Laws on Nature Protection in Croatia (2005), Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003) and Serbia (2009) in terms of “openness” and “greening” of forest related legislation. The results show that protection regulations within forest legislation, particularly those referring to forests with special management regime, can be strengthened by introducing the concept of high conservation value forests (HCVF). This concept includes also strategic changing of forestry sector position - from an inferior towards more proactive role in nature protection dialogue. The results of this paper can contribute to further improvements of current countries’ forest related legislation in domain of analyzed issues as well as creation of consistent forest and nature protection policies aimed at fostering cross-sectoral dialogue and cooperation.

UDK 630*92:519.237.8(497.6) According to FAO, the total forest area in Bosnia-Herzegovina amounts 2.709.769 ha or 53,4% of overall state territory. While the total area of private forests is 523.437 ha, private forest ownership is characterized by huge number of small-scale and fragmented individual estates. The aim of this research is to examine how the groups of private forest owners can be created with different clustering methods, regarding different criteria. The data presented in this paper are obtained from PRIFORT project (Research into the Organizations of Private Forest Owners Associations in the Western Balkan Region). Results show that private forest owners in Bosnia- Herzegovina can be grouped in three clusters by using different clustering methods, based on criteria defined in advance. Significant differences in willingness of private forest owners (PFO) to join to their interest associations are noticed for identified clusters. From forest policy aspect, the clusters gathering homogenous groups of private forest owners should be treated by different policy instruments (regulatory, economical or informational) in order to ensure better contribution of private forests to overall economical, ecological and social outcomes expected from forests as the most important natural resources in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

This paper deals with the forestry production cost analyses realised in Federation of B&H. The results of research point out on high differences of production costs between individual forest enterprises, caused by various ways of cost calculation, as well as by various production conditions. Therefore, the data obtained from enterprises are not comparable in whole, and as such, the data could not be used as the bases for calculation of an objective forestry production cost. To effect the activity based costing (e.g. activity of silviculture or forest utilization) is of particular importance. The used methodology is based on traditional costing, which is appropriate only for calculating direct costs, and not adequate to determine overhead (indirect) costs. Regarding these costing methods for calculating costs in forest enterprises, their performed forest activities are not appropriately valued. Today, as overhead costs are of considerable importance, the demand for more accurate costing methods has increased in the field of forest management. ABC (Activity Based Costing) method is a new dimension of cost analysis to record costs for each forest activities, towards objective forest management cost production determined. At the same time, it reveals the necessary costs for each activity, assures the proper layout of overhead costs to the forest activities. On the base of the defined forest activities for realization of forest management goals, as well as forest production capacities, we could understand the forest enterprises ability to achieve the goals and also to pay rent for using forest resources.

The Western Balkan countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia have in common that their private forests are significant resources for the development of market economy and private ownership. Although the share of private forests varies between 10% (Macedonia) and 47% (Serbia), and probably will increase when the restitution and privatization proces s will have been finished, the private forest owners are almost not represented in national forest policy due to the lack of independent interest associations. Private forest owners' interests are mainly in the hands of public forest administration. In all four countries there are very large numbers of private owners of predominantly small-scaled forests varying between 240, 000 in Macedonia and 800, 000 in Serbia. They are mainly males of an average age of 53 years and most of them live in rural areas in settlements with less than 5, 000 inhabitants. More than one half ofthem are farmers, lower-Ievel employees or unemployed. Regarding education, more than one half of them have high school or vocational college qualifications and one quarter elementary school qualification. The majority of private forest owners have inherited the forests and want to leave them to their children. Most private forest owners hold forest properties smaller than 1 ha. In addition, these properties are often fragmented into 2 to 7 parcels on average, most often in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mixed and coppice forests dominate and volume and annual increment per hectare are modest compared to state forests. The private forests are mainly used for domestic fuel wood and saw log consumption ; tourism, nature conservation and hunting are of minor importanee. Consequently, for about one half of the private forest owners the forest is again, as reflected in its contribution to the household income. In order to increase the efficiency of forest management, all forest owners are prepared to cooperate with other private forest owners, first and foremost in road construction and maintenance. Of second priority is cooperation in forest training for the respondents from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Croatia, and cooperation in sharing harvesting equipment for Serbian respondents. Almost all private forest owners are unsatisfied with the existing situation. They miss extension services of the public forest administrations and state forest enterprises for improving their forest management. Most forest owners miss advice in harvesting, support of road construction and maintenance and advice in silviculture, however, with different priorities in the four countries according to their special needs. Private forest owners are also much concerned that their interests are not appropriately represented in national forest policy by an independent interest association. In particular they expect such an association to fight for provision of financiai inc en tives, tax breaks and reformulation of the existing forest laws in the interest of private forest owners. The respondents suffer from restrictive legal regulations conceming private forest owners. Prescription to pay levies for timber harvests and permissions for harvesting and tree marking by the forest authority before felling are indicated as the most restrictive ones. Although private forest owners' organizations are very rare for the time being, the respondents are well aware about their tasks. The preconditions for the formation of private forest owners' associations for both extension service at the local and regional levels and interest representation at the national level are favourable. Between one and two quarters of the respondents are prepared to engage themselves in the formation of an interest group. They declare to join such an organization voluntarily ifthey may expect either economic advantages or positive performance of the organization or very low membership fee. In each of the four countries there is a critical mass of entrepreneurial forest owners who strongly support an association of private forest owners ; in Bosnia and Herzegovina the "drivers" amount to 55% of the respondents. A majority of two thirds of Bosnian private forest owners also support compulsory membership in accordance with the forest policy decision makers in this country, while the positions of both private forest owners and representatives of institutions in Serbia and Croatia are reserved in this respect. An explanation could be that in Serbia private forest owners' associations at the local level have been developing slowly during the last two years, and Croatia supports their formation by the Forest Extension Service, a department of the public forest administration. In Macedonia compulsory membership is most refused by the representatives of existing private forest owners' associations.

Private forest owners start to play an important role in Western Balkans’ forestry and they are essential to the successful implementation of environmental policies. Little is known about how forest policy can support private forest owners in these countries and therefore this study was conducted though a qualitative method, based on personal interviews with representatives of 54 stakeholders that include state forest authorities and administration, private forest owners associations, forest science and research and private sector in Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The results show significant homogeneity across the region towards creation of independent interest forest owners associations based on financial support. Regression analysis identified stakeholder attitudes as significant predictors of policy preferences and also identified owners of production forest as more supportive of such policies.

Radi specificnih drustveno-politickih i socio- ekonomskih prilika u regiji, problematika udruživanja privatnih sumoposjednika u interesne udruge do sada nije bila predmetom sireg istraživanja. Na osnovi navedenoga 2008. godine pokrenuto je istraživanje stanja privatnog sumoposjeda i formiranja udruga privatnih sumoposjednika u zemljama regije, u kojima se povijesno razvijao podjednak model vlasnistva. U radu su analizirani stavovi privatnih sumoposjednika prema međusobnoj suradnji i udruživanju u cilju boljeg gospodarenja svojim posjedom, sa posebnim naglaskom na izgradnju sumskih cesta u Hrvatskoj, Srbiji i Bosni i Hercegovini. Provedeno istraživanje ukazuje spremnost privatnih sumoposjednika na suradnju u aktivnostima gospodarenja sumoposjedom, te ukazuje na željene usluge koje bi trebale pružiti udruge privatnih sumoposjednika.

Numerous political, economical, and social changes inevitably influence a way in which human society perceivs forest as natural phenomenon and forestry as specific human activity. A lack of understanding of changing demands of society towards forests, make impossible their integration into planning documents as well as creating a consistent forest policy. The consequences are serious and usually result in public dissatisfaction on how forest resources are managed. The issue is particularly pronounced in urban areas where population's visits to forests and nature are linked with relatively simple and cheap ”consumption” of different social and ecological services that significantly decrease negative effects of day-to-day urban lifestyle. Research on demands of Canton Sarajevo population towards forests offers valuable data about behavioural pattern related to forest areas visits, the attitudes, reasons of stay and the interests of the population towards forests. The importance of different forest functions offered to society, negative impacts during stay in forests as well as necessary corrective activities to eliminate these impacts are also identified. The results of this research can be used as guidelines for the reorganisation of forests companies and designing consistent forest policy in Canton Sarajevo which will be oriented to diagnose and satisfy demands of Canton Sarajevo population towards forests, taking into consideration a variability of social, political, demographical and economical factors.

Background and Purpose: The forest related conflicts has not been very often used as a research topic in Croatia. This paper presents results from two case studies conducted in Nature Parks »Kopa~ki rit« and »Velebit«. The aim of the study was to explore conflicts between forestry and nature protection on management level. The main research questions were raised: (a) What causes conflicts?; (b)What are the attitudes of conflict actors towards conflicts as a phenomenon and towards other conflict parties?; (c) What was undertaken to manage conflicts and was it successful? and (d) How the conflicts and CM influence forest policy development process? Material and Methods: Data was collected by conducting in-depth resulting in 27 interviews in total. The interviewees were managers in CF, NPs and representatives of NGOs active in the respective areas. Theoretical framework was combination of Progressive Triangle with three main aspects of conflicts: substance, relation and procedure (3) embedded in structure of four main elements: culture, conflicts, conflicts management and policy development (10). Results and Conclusion: Primary parties in conflicts are NPs and CF. Interviewees named mostly problems with legislation, performance of forest management activities within protected areas and lack of proper communication as possible conflict causes. Main conclusion is that differing attitudes towards forestry and nature protection as well as education as elements of cultural background probably influence conflict occurrence, CM and policy development. There is no sound CM strategy or significant policy development.