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Forest policy making
in Slovenia Country presentationMilan inkoUniversity of Ljubljana
Biotechnical faculty
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Road map of presentation
Responsibilities (Forest policy landscape)
Forest policy design
Characteristics of policy making in Slovenia
Existence of comprehensive scientific forest policy analysis
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Responsibilities (Forest policy landscape)
Ministry of agriculture and the environment Parlaiment (National assembly) (the system of post-
parlaimentary governance)
Slovenian forest service (influence of expertise)
Lack of powerful interest groups (forest owners,Environmental NGO)
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Forest policy design
Problems (salient issues)
Forest policy goals Forest policy tools
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Forest policy design
Problems (salient issues)
State of forests Unbalanced age structure
Forest management Underuse of the yield potential of private forests
Management of state forest
Illegal logging
Forest policy goals
Forest policy tools
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Forest policy design
Problems (salient issues)
Policy goals (NFP 2007) Ecosystemic approach and sustainable
development of forest
Preserve natural environment and ecologicalbalance in landscape
Policy tools
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Forest policy design
Problems (salient issues)
Forest policy goals (NFP 2007): Forest policy tools:
Regulative tools prevail (e.g. obligatory forest management
planning for all forests, obligatory tree marking for logging) Economic tools less important (e.g. subsidise for
silviculture aprox. 1 /ha/year on average)
Informational tools: The most important provider is public forest service
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Characteristics of policy making in Slovenia
Close-to-nature policy paradigm
Small country: Corporatism
Rent seeking
Post-transitional policy making: path dependency uncertainty
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Existence of comprehensive scientific forest policy
analysis
Scientific forest policy analysis in small countries (Hogl, Pregernig2002)
High degree of narrowness (a small number oforganizations and persons doing research )
Small number of costumer
Policy analysis/research as tool in politics (instrumentalapproach - e.g. research on forest owners association)
Great impact of forest policy paradigm
Lack of scientific pluralism
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Existence of comprehensive scientific forest policy
analysis
Projects, reports
EU projects e.g.: Effe (Evaluating Forestry Incentives and Assistance Programmes in
Europe 2000-2004)
Cool (COmpeting uses Of forest Land - ongoing)
National projects Efficiency of forest policy tools
New post-transition forestry institutions Forest policy analysis as part of projects from other
research areas (e.g. forest conversion)
Projects of undergraduate and graduate students
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Relationship between forest-focused
(nominal) policies and forest related(functional) policies
Forest policy Wildlife policy
Rural developmentpolicy
Energy policy
Water policy Nature conservation
policy
Environment (climatechange policy)
Economy (wood
industry)
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Responsibilities - Forest policy landscape
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