The project builds the groundwork for a transparent economic evaluation of close-to-nature forest management and for decision-making by forest owners and managers.
Process the available historical and current domestic and international findings on close-to-nature management methods and their economic modelling.
Evaluate data on management measures carried out and planned at the selected demonstration sites of non-clear-cut management.
Prepare an economic analysis of at least three selected sites over short-term, medium-term and long-term horizons.
Create at least 18 basic economic efficiency evaluation models, in variants both accounting for and not accounting for the time factor.
Compare the economic efficiency of close-to-nature management with traditional clear-cut management methods.
Create a transparent methodology for evaluating close-to-nature management with economic evaluation as its central component.