Mirjana Zavodja

Mirjana Zavodja
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen | HAWK HHG · Faculty of Resource Management

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The comprehensive performance of the Lesy ČR and Lesy SR forest enterprises was evaluated three decades after the separation of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Implementation of the overarching goal of sustainable forest management was studied using the criteria and indicators approach of the theory-based 3L Model. Quantitative and qualitative data...
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In this chapter, we explain how scientific information can effectively be used in the daily work of practitioners. We lead through the process of tailoring research results and scientific information to support an integrated and ecosystem-based natural hazard risk management in the form of a Road Map. This Road Map is based on the RIU (Research Int...
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The Horizon 2020 project, ALTERFOR, generated knowledge about forest management alternatives. Researchers modelled a future, sustainable provision of ecosystem services, where a salient question was one of how to facilitate the application of these innovative scientific results in praxis. Our qualitative study uses a method mix and the analytical R...
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Empirijsko analitički pristup znanosti šumarske politike primijenjen je na primjeru specijalnog rezervata prirode „Koviljsko-Petrovaradinski Rit“ (Srbija) s ciljem sveobuhvatne analize korisnika, njihovih interesa i potencijalnih sukoba interesa. Istraživanje je provedeno od kolovoza 2017. do kolovoza 2018. godine. Procjena intenziteta interesa ide...
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The study provides insight into the future of the forest-based bioeconomy sector in selected Southeast European (SEE) countries. It elicits experts´ understanding of forest-based bioeconomy, their opinion and level of agreement on future implementation of the bioeconomy concept by 2030/2050, through two-round Delphi. The study also provides the sta...
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This study examines forest ownership in the UNECE region. Based on data on 35 countries, and the first to include all forest ownership categories, this study investigates the changing nature and patterns of forest ownership, the ways in which governance and social structures influence forest owners and users, as well as forest management. Within th...
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Nowadays, great emphasis is placed on the relationship between forest and water because forests are considered as substantial sources of many water ecosystem services. The aim of this paper is to analyze the stakeholder opinions towards the relationship between forests and water and the potential development of water-related payments for ecosystem...
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More than half of Brazilian territory (54%), or approx. 463 million ha, is covered by forests. Public forest ownership dominates with up to 80%, private forests cover cca. 20% and cca. 8% is unclaimed. In public forests the practice of concessions is growing, with the expectation of reducing the problem of Amazonian illegal loggings. Private forest...
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Public forest administrations in the Western Balkans were challenged when facing novel forest policies following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. To answer (i) what (formal) goals lead public forest administrations nowadays and (ii) how do public forest administrations fulfil these goals, we evaluated the implementation of forest policy goal...
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Forest genetic resources (FGR) are essential part of the adaptation and evolutionary processes of forest ecosystems. Therefore, the conservation and appropriate use of FGR are of importance for sustainable forest management. Several European policies, such as FOREST EUROPE, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), EU Forest Strategy and Rural Deve...
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In this paper the results of the first comprehensive study on perception of and satisfaction with urban forests and green space in seven Southeast European cities are presented. The aims of the paper are to analyse 1) citizen perceptions of the current state of urban forests and green space in their cities, 2) to what extent current urban forests a...
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State forest institutions in Poland, where 80% of the forest is state-owned, bear high responsibility for the sustainable development of this natural resource and strive to fulfil economic, ecological and social goals. To examine how far these goals are met and which strategic option(s) can be identified for the future the 3L Model was applied and...
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In recent years, new policies have emerged in Europe related to both bioenergy and bioeconomy. The study investigated perceptions of the Croatian and Serbian non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFs) concerning energy wood mobilization from forests owned by them. A total of 232 NIPFs from the two countries participated in the study. The NIPFs pe...
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Background and Purpose: Survey research is one of the most commonly applied approaches in the social sciences. In the forest research it has been used for more than five decades. In spite of that or the fact that the amount of survey-based articles in the forest science journals has increased during the last decade, their share in all articles publ...
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Private forests in Croatia and Serbia are highly fragmented in small plots with low productivity and owned by a large number of small-scale nonindustrial private forest owners (NIPFs). The study conducted surveys among 232 NIPFs in these two countries to find out their perceptions and attitudes related to energy wood production from their forests. T...
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The effect of oak powdery mildew (Erysiphe alphitoides (Griffon & Maubl.) U. Braun & S. Takam.) on the most important plant physiological processes, photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance, was studied on pedunculate oak saplings, depending on leaf age and fungal infestation intensity. The intensity of net photosynthesis declined pr...
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Non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFs) own high percentage of forests and provide a major portion of the domestic roundwood supply to the forest-based industries in Europe. In this context, the role of the NIPFs will be important to meet the increasing demand of forest biomass for energy production in many European countries. The study analyz...
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The effect of oak powdery mildew (Erysiphe alphitoides (Griffon & Maubl.) U. Braun & S. Takam.) on the most important plant physiological processes, photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance, was studied on pedunculate oak saplings, depending on leaf age and fungal infestation intensity. The intensity of net photosynthesis declined pr...
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This paper is a review of the recent research results on the forest ecosystems of Serbia conducted on different sites and types of forest trees, carried out at the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. It gives a systematic overview of a long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems and the data obtained at cons...
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Policy-makers articulate a growing need for science-based policy advice that supports their decisions, especially infields that are dependent on scientific knowledge like natural resources or forestry. Publicly funded organizations, such as departmental research institutes, have been established in many countries to provide science-based policy advic...
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To measure the success of state forest institutions the full range of their goals should be considered. As partial evaluations are still dominant a task of a comprehensive performance measuring represents a theoretical and an empirical challenge. In solving this challenge the goals from policy programmes are taken and anchored in the scientific the...
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Background and purpose: The aimof the paper is to describe and analyse the consultation process on forest biomass and sustainable forestmanagement in the context of renewable energy. Rather unique for the cross-border region of Croatian and Serbia the process was initiated within the EU project RoK-FOR [1] and based on a 'triple helix' principle- t...
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Urban forests provide multiple benefits whereas wood production is less important in comparison to benefits such as mitigating air pollution and heath island effect, providing fresh water or recreational opportunities to growing urban population (Konijnendijk 2000). However these benefits are usually non-marketable. There are several typologies of...
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Many governments express a growing need for having a science that is "usable", which means that research results should be useful for practical application. In Serbia and Croatia current strategies and laws addressing science and research see public research institutes as organizations with activities primarily oriented toward public interest, in a...
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From the point of view of policy makers a comparison of state forest institutions is useful when it (i) measures politically relevant goals, (ii) provides information about driving factors of policy and policy changes and (iii) is rather simple. It is obvious that the recently internationally formulated criteria for sustainable forestry do not meet...

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