Abstract
The forests in Bavaria cover about one third of its land area or 2.56 Mio hectares (ha) and the major part of this forest is held by private forest owners. Around 700 000 landlords manage approximately 1.4 Mio ha. In Bavaria, about 130 Forest Owner Associations (FOAs) play a key role in managing the small scale forests. In the last years, a new concept in small scale forest management arose, “Forest-Management-Service-Contract” (FMSC). The statutory corporations needed a proper management for their forests accordingly the German forest laws and the FOA took the chance to adopt a new business concept. In Bavaria exist about 3000 forest-management-service-contracts, covering over 40.000 hectares. In a current project “Further development of the successful concept – Forest-Management-Service-Contracts – through economic analysis” will be elaborated a data base for the better understanding of the crucial to success factors of FMSC. The economic analysis of the FMSC will base on business process analysis related to the administration of FMSC, on economic operating figures deviated from a single contract analysis and performance data. This information base aims to optimize the contracting process and to reduce the risks related to unknown hazards of the single FMSC.
Highlights
The forests in Bavaria cover about one third of its land area or 2.56 Mio hectares and the major part of these forests are held by private forest owners
The economic analysis will be based on business process analysis related to the administration of single contracts on economic operating figures deviated from single contract analysis and performance data. This information base aims to optimize the contracting process and to reduce the risks related to unknown hazards of the single FMSC
A) participatory methods of empirical social research are used to analyse business processes related to FMSCs, b) quantitative analysis serve to document and process the individual working time of Forest Owner Associations (FOAs)-staff members used for single working steps within the FMSC business process, c) single FMSCs are analysed for concrete economic information and are put in relation to the forest structure of the contract area and d) in workshops, the project team applies methods like SWOT to analyse the FMSCs and develop the concept for future benefits for the forest owners as well as for the FOAs (Gaitanides 2007); (Lutze, Neuner 2010b)
Summary
The forests in Bavaria cover about one third of its land area or 2.56 Mio hectares (ha) and the major part of these forests are held by private forest owners. Around 700 000 landlords manage approximately 1.4 Mio ha. Two thirds of the private forest enterprises cover less than 20 ha. In Bavaria, about 130 Forest Owner Associations (FOAs) play a key role in managing the small scale forests. A new concept in small scale forest management arose. A considerable part of the forest owners is not able or willing to manage their forest by themselves. That means forest owners are overage and /or physically unable to work or deal with the management of their property, they do not have the skills and expertise, or they live to far from their forest property (urban forest owners)
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