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IUFRO 4 05-2018-Croatia Zagreb 3rd call<\/a>.pdf<\/p>\n

REGISTRATION<\/a><\/p>\n

Natural resources represent common good and wealth. Their use, economic function and evaluation have to be planned directly since they represent the basis of future industrial and economic development. Forests are considered renewable natural resources, and the main characteristic of renewable natural resources is that their reserves are not permanent, but they can increase or decrease in future. However, a renewable natural resource cannot renew itself above the level determined by existing ecosystem\u2019s capacity. Forestry economics encompasses all know-how related to forestry, and with the activities of market elements, it observes how a man and the society act in certain circumstances and conditions. The specific features of forest management are particularly manifested in the long-term biomass production cycle, the forests\u2019 multiple functions and benefits, the fact that many of its values cannot be evaluated directly on the market, long period from the start of works, natural renewal, afforestation, nurture, cleaning, thinning, etc. to economic effects, which exceeds human lifetime. The forest sector has an important influence on the rural development, contributing to poverty decrease, achieving sustainable development and providing different ecological services. The priority of the world as a whole and each country should be to develop appropriate sustainable development strategies which would include special measures for the forests\u2019 preservation, sustainability and vitality.
\nThe IUFRO 4.05. Unit concentrates on the economic and accounting aspects of management of different types of forest enterprises, specifically small-scale enterprises. The group deals with the economic analyses of forest enterprises, principles and techniques of accounting relevant to forest enterprises, fundaments of decision-making, and the economic and accounting tools for planning, supervising, measuring, controlling, and evaluating the status and performance of forest enterprises.
\nThe conference is aimed at forest researchers and practitioners from IUFRO 4.05 members, i.e., members engaged in managerial, social and environmental forest economics and accounting, forest ecosystem services as well as scientists, experts, researchers and practitioner working in the area of forestry and land-use, forest and natural resource policy and decision support makers, land-use planners, stakeholders, researchers and specialists of related fields. Both theoretical and empirical research is welcome.<\/p>\n

The conference will cover the following themes:
\nThe main issues to be covered are recent developments in the following areas:<\/p>\n