Economic and legal conditions of sustainable public access to forests

Forestry sector, except of production of raw wood material, provides also the possibility of public access to forests based on the principles of the ecosystem services provision -- such possibility is specified by both the internal management conditions as well as the external restrictions. The effective public access is affected by a number of factors -- the most important ones are property rights in forestry, economic interests and preferences of forest enterprises, legal restrictions, social and environmental interests and preferences of the society. The objective of the proposed project is to analyze the principles and conditions of sustainable and effective public access to forests under specific economic and legal conditions of forestry.