Emil Kitchoukov, Nikola Stoyanov, Tsvetelina Simeonova-Zarcin, Todor Stoyanov
Keywords: sustainable forest management, forest certification, profitability, FSC, logging, woodworking
Abstract
The main objective of the study is to analyse and evaluate the profitability of introducing the FSC certificate for sustainable forest management at Yundola and Petrohan, which are training forests at the University of Forestry – Sofia. These two forest enterprises and adjacent state forest and hunting forest enterprises are considered in this case as model forest areas, including certified and subject to certification forest enterprises and typical forest areas with coniferous and deciduous forests.