Problematic character of forest land transformation
2007
Bara, G., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia)
In order not to decrease the significance of a forest in the environmental maintenance and its role in the national economy, Latvian Forest policy needs to ensure that the existing forest areas are not decreasing, establish forest land transformation restrictions, thus, maintaining a long lasting development of forests. The preconditions for the change of the forest land use is one of the instruments for the state policy realisation, with the help of which a long-term development of forests can be ensured. At the moment working out the land policy in Latvia on a country level is being started. The publication is in the context of setting strategic targets for forestry and human resource development planning strategy, within the framework of Latvian forest and related department national programme. Due to the reasons mentioned, the topic discussed in the article is a problem of the day, and the research in this direction has got both theoretical and practical significance. The author investigate the forest land transformation process, by analysing normative acts and political documents in the article, as well as by summarising statistical data about the relevant processes in Latvia and in the world, during last six years. The issues, related to the forest land transformation process have been covered in the article; it has been analysed whether there are cases when a necessity arises to review the existing normative regulations. The answers have been given how to eliminate identified shortcomings, contradictions or problems.
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