Innovations in the forest sector may be very different in origin, objectives, context and content. This paper analyses several institutional innovations with the capacity to create considerable changes in the rules of the game of forest policy making in Austria, Scotland and France. All cases...

This paper presents the findings of a Delphi survey, conducted in four European regions (Great Britain, Nordic Region, Central Europe and Iberia) to assess public preferences for 12 key structural attributes of forests. The objectives were to explore the extent to which generalisations can be...

Non-timber forest products and services receive growing attention as they are expected to contribute to income in rural areas and to the solution of conflicts over forest use. This article studies the role of the forestry sector innovation systems of Central European countries in the development...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Thesen -- 2. Referat -- Sozialistische ökonomische Integration unter den Bedingungen der umfassenden Intensivierung -- 3. Diskussion -- Zur Arbeit im RGW nach der Wirtschaftsberatung der Mitgliedsländer des RGW auf höchster Ebene im Juni 1984 in Moskau...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Thesen -- "Theoretische Fragen der weiteren Vertiefung der sozialistischen ökonomischen Integration der Mitgliedsländer des RGW unter besonderer Beachtung der Probleme der internationalen ökonomischen Organisationen" -- 2. Einführungsvortrag --...

We present the first polynomial-time algorithm for computing the minimal covering set of a (weak) tournament. The algorithm draws upon a linear programming formulation of a subset of the minimal covering set known as the essential set. On the other hand, we show that no efficient algorithm...