Factors affecting forest cooperative's participation in forestry in Turkey |
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| Authors: | Erdo?an Atmi? H Batuhan Gün?en Banu Bayramo?lu Lise Wietze Lise |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway;2. Department of Economics, Mekelle University, Box 451, Mekelle, Ethiopia;3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KULeuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, Box 2411, BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium;1. Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Campus, Pokhara, Nepal;2. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway;3. University of the Ryukyus, Japan;4. Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan;2. Socioeconomics Program, CIMMYT, Islamabad, Pakistan;3. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302 West Bengal, India;1. University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Vecna pot 83, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;2. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Resource Management, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden;3. University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Forestry Section, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;4. University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Science, P.O. Box 33, 00014, Finland;5. Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland;6. European Forest Institute Central-East and South-East European Regional Office (EFICEEC-EFISEE), c/o University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Feistmantelstr. 4, A-1180 Vienna, Austria;7. Umeå University, Department of Geography and Economic History, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This study analyses forest cooperative's participation in forestry in Turkey. The study was carried out with 71 forest cooperatives in the Kastamonu province, located in the Western Black Sea Region. By using a principal component analysis it was found that the most important factors affecting forest cooperative's participation in forestry are: (1) member involvement, (2) forest ownership and administration, and (3) harmony within cooperatives and between cooperatives and the state. These three factors explained 59% of participation within a cooperative.Regression analyses indicate that active members, sufficiency of work, use of published material, and the availability of capital and credit are important variables to explain variations in participation. A game theoretic model indicates a positive link between a cooperative's wood production (payoff) and levels of participation as derived from the principal component analysis, indicating that a productive forest goes hand in hand with high levels of forest cooperative's participation in forestry. |
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