J. For. Sci., 2024, 70(2):41-63 | DOI: 10.17221/75/2023-JFS

Administrative system of afforestation in the Czech Republic: A long journey to a new forestReview

Martin Baláš1, Josef Gallo ORCID...1, Marcin Czacharowski2, Michal Pástor3, Jaroslav Jankovič3, Igor Štefančík3, Ivan Kuneš1, Hubert Hasenauer4
1 Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2 Department of Silviculture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Warsaw, Poland
3 Department of Silviculture and Forest Production, National Forest Centre – Forest Research Institute in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
4 Institute of Silviculture, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

This review uses a case study based on an executed afforestation project to comprehensively describe the administrative procedure regarding afforestation of agricultural land in the Czech Republic, Central Europe. We consider the official proceedings for obtaining a permit to land-use change (i.e. changing the nature of land use and the mode of land use in the real estate cadastre) as a very complex and protracted procedure, which can substantially reduce the motivation of people to establish new forests. Therefore, we propose a simplification of the administration process of land-use change. The main idea is to make the procedure as simple as possible in those areas where afforestation is desirable, especially from the environmental point of view. It assumes the possibility of quick, precise and, if possible, automatic distinction whether the afforestation is suitable or not. The situation in the Czech Republic is compared with the surrounding Central-European countries: Poland and Slovakia. In these countries, the official procedure connected with afforestation seems to be rather less complicated.

Keywords: administration; afforestation of agricultural land; forest establishment; land-use change; spatial planning policy

Received: June 30, 2023; Revised: December 5, 2023; Accepted: December 6, 2023; Prepublished online: February 23, 2024; Published: February 28, 2024  Show citation

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Baláš M, Gallo J, Czacharowski M, Pástor M, Jankovič J, Štefančík I, et al.. Administrative system of afforestation in the Czech Republic: A long journey to a new forest. J. For. Sci. 2024;70(2):41-63. doi: 10.17221/75/2023-JFS.
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