Entwicklung der Finanzierung einer Multifunktionalen Waldbewirtschaftung in den Forstbetrieben Offentlicher Waldeigentumer im Schweizerischen Alpenraum

Abstract

"With the federal forestry legislation coming into force in 1993, a multi-functional forest management has been established as the fundamental objective of the national forest policy in Switzerland. This modern concept has already been developed with the beginning of the federal forest policy during the second half of the last century with the effect that forest enterprises already perform extensive activities in the service sector. For forest enterprises of public forest owners in the Alpine region it can be exemplarily shown by the payment flows at which degree the multi-functional management takes effect on the corresponding financing. Services provided by forest enterprises in the sector of protection (safe-guarding) and well-being are not only financed by the profits obtained from wood production, but also by budget positions especially established for this purpose. Since the 1980th, the sectoral financing for providing services by the forest enterprises has at least partially contributed to the off-setting of the impact caused by unfavorable economic conditions in the wood production. Due to the on-going planning process for the realisation of coordinated regional or cantonal policies as well as country overlapping developments within the realms of the Alpine convention, the basis for the financing of public forest enterprises based on a multi- functional forest management will be even further differentiated in the coming years. Pilot projects carried out under the new financial equalisation system between the federal and cantonal governments suggest that multi-functional forest management will form a solid basis for the development and implementation of forest enterprises strategies. On the operational level it is needful to develop and apply suitable instruments for cost and management controls."