The development of co-operations among forest owners in Austria
Abstract
Small forests are of great importance to Austria’s forestry; approximately half of the entire annual harvest originates from small, private properties. In many cases, professional management is not possible due to the very small and often fragmented parcels. Old and insufficient plants and ma-chinery makes small forests even more difficult to manage. To overcome these weaknesses and to increase competitive ability, co-operations between the forest owners have been established. So far, the activities of these co-operations are predominantly limited to wood mar-keting and machine sharing. In the future, an advancement of these un-ions to enterprises with a wide range of services will be necessary. This project is a benchmarking study for 12 forest co-operations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Furthermore the current development status will be demonstrated with an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results are showing big differences, due to different operational areas, number of forest owners, annual cuts and many other reasons. As the most important critical success factors have been identified: management, configuration, co-operations, public relations, continuing education and management of the members. They are the basis for the design of the models for forest co-operations.
Forestry Cooperations Small scale forestry
Publikationen
Project staff
Karl Stampfer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Karl Stampfer
karl.stampfer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91001, 91501, 91511
Project Leader
01.11.2003 - 31.12.2006
Thomas Steinmüller
Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Steinmüller
thomas.steinmueller@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.11.2003 - 31.12.2006