This approach facilitates interaction with the related subjects in forest law, resources economics and empirical social research. Forest related aspects of environmental and land use planning law, nature and landscape protection law, and procedural law are of importance and have increasing weight in teaching and research. Overview Forest Economics Major elements are managerial and resource economic aspects of forest enterprises, forest sector development and wood utilisation as a renewable resource. Concerning forest enterprises and management, teaching and research focuses on structural aspects and objectives of different groups of public and private forest owners, alternative combinations of production goals for goods and services, finance and investment based on market proceeds and compensation payments and on appropriate accounting systems for managerial decision making. Economic aspects of nature conservation is a new subject to be gradually developed.
Close linkages exist between economic analysis, policy development and land tenure considerations.
This field is developed with the chair s other subject areas. It has considerable importance as regards the cultural specificity as well as the changes that determine the social meaning of forests, the actual economic uses and the political framework for their conservation. Teaching and research programmes focus on public perception of forests and nature, on social performance in sustainable management and group specific attitudes towards forests and forestry. The methodological concept considers forest issues in relation to a changing understanding of environment and nature which is influenced by local, regional and global conditions.