A Forest Commons Revival in Slovenia

Bogataj, Nevenka; Krč, Janez

doi:10.1080/08941920.2014.918225

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“…The scientific literature provides evidence of several initiatives and approaches that can be used to tackle managerial and organizational issues originating from these (structural) changes. For example, Bogataj and Krč (2014) highlighted the forest commons revival in Slovenia as a potential solution for improving the management of natural resources. A study on forest owner organizations (FOOs) in Eastern European countries (Weiss et al, 2012) showed that these organizations are established to support the restitution process, represent owners' interests in policy making processes and engage in forest management and marketing.…”

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What can we learn from business models in the European forest sector: Exploring the key elements of new business model designs

Kajanus

Leban

Glavonjić

et al. 2019

Forest Policy and Economics

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This study represents the first attempt to operationalize a novel methodological approach that couples the expanded business model canvas (BMC) with an analytical evaluation of business model items and incorporates context-intervention-mechanism-outcome logic (CIMO-logic). We applied the designed methodology to analyse ten forest-related business models in eight European countries. This study aims to enhance the understanding of the challenges and opportunities generated by changing forest ownership due to the use of new business models. The adopted procedures both enhance the understanding of existing business models and the associated mechanisms and suggest improvements for existing business models. In other words, these procedures facilitated the understanding of business model dynamics. The changing operational environment forces the traditional forestry industry to adapt, and the analysed European cases indicate that business system innovations should always be considered to meet consumers' needs. The analysed business models are mostly grounded on traditional forestry and mainly include either new services or organizational improvements. The analysed business models introduce new organizational channels for reaching customers, satisfying new customer needs, targeting unique customers, reducing transaction costs, and improving customer relationships.

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What can we learn from business models in the European forest sector: Exploring the key elements of new business model designs

Kajanus

Leban

Glavonjić

et al. 2019

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…Recent studies place attention on expected legislative amendments (Hafner, 2011a,b), while recent case-studies (Ogrin, 1989;Premrl, 2008;Šprajcar, 2012 and others) complement grey literature. However, the overall situation has only been addressed from geographical (Petek and Urbanc, 2007) and forestry (Ravtar, 1938;Bogataj, 1990;Bogataj and Krč, 2014) viewpoints.…”

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Disturbances, robustness and adaptation in forest commons: Comparative insights from two cases in the Southeastern Alps

Gatto

Bogataj²

2015

Forest Policy and Economics

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Exposure to disturbances of different nature and scale can represent a threat for the survival of rural communities but also a stimulus to adjustment. Disturbance, robustness and adaptation are here examined through the lens of Forest Commons, as a typical institution, developed by communities in the southeastern Alps since several centuries. The paper relies on Commons' theory and further developments and carries out a historically-embedded analysis of disturbances, robustness and adaptation in Forest Commons of Slovenia and Veneto (Italy). Data have been drawn from multiple sources, following an approach based on an area scale and later on case-studies. The analysis focuses on evidence of Forest Commons' reactions to disturbances induced by political changes and State actions. Ostrom's design principles are used to test robustness of eight selected cases and identification of their adaptation patterns. The paper concludes by confirming Forest Commons as robust and adaptive social-ecological systems and thus useful in Community Forestry conceptualisation. However, thanks to its cross-border analysis, it also points out future research needs for their better understanding.

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“…The first identified factor underlying resilience is the harsh mountainous environment, a widely recognised driver for collective action, as poor resources and uncertainty reinforce cooperation (Anderies et al 2006, Bogataj & Krč 2014, Szántay 2015, thus, to reduce the high risks, rule-bound behaviour is particularly necessary (Folke et al 2007). Furthermore, as Agrawal & Yadama (1997) pointed out, the attributes of hill agriculture make commons the most effective system of resource use in this context, as poor soils and transportation difficulties hinder intensification and uniformization.…”

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Coping with Dismantling Forces: Traditional Management and Transformations of Székely-Hungarian Village Commons of Transylvania, in the 16–21th Centuries

Hartmann¹,

Bán²,

Barta³

2022

Int J Commons

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The Székelyföld region of Transylvania, Romania is a unique social-ecological system and a traditional farming landscape with rich biological and cultural diversity. Commons institutions have ancient roots here, and are still prevalent today. In this paper, we attempt to give an overview of the traditional organisation, accelerating challenges, transformations and reorganisations of the Székely commons over their history based on existing literature, covering the interval between the 16th and 21th centuries. Based on this overview, we also identify key drivers for resilience that counteracted dismantling forces, to account for the long persistence and transformability of these institutions. We found that between the end of the 16th and the mid-19th centuries, Székely commons showed remarkable stability in their functioning based on village bylaws, and these documents also demonstrate that most communities could be characterised by Ostrom's design principles in this period. From the 19th century, the pressures of state centralisation, market integration, new technologies, population growth, polarisation and changing values intensified, creating significant dismantling forces. However, Székely commons survived, and we argue that the harsh mountainous environment and isolation, coupled with locally rooted identity, worldview and a rich institutional memory, and also the traditional notions of equity and the widespread availability of common resources constituted elements of resilience, which helped to prevent dissolution. We conclude that as direct human-nature links lie at the heart of many of the identified drivers for resilience, nurturing these links seems essential for the survival of traditional local institutions and management practices that maintain biological and cultural diversity in a globalised world.

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A Forest Commons Revival in Slovenia

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

What can we learn from business models in the European forest sector: Exploring the key elements of new business model designs

What can we learn from business models in the European forest sector: Exploring the key elements of new business model designs

Disturbances, robustness and adaptation in forest commons: Comparative insights from two cases in the Southeastern Alps

Coping with Dismantling Forces: Traditional Management and Transformations of Székely-Hungarian Village Commons of Transylvania, in the 16–21th Centuries

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