Small-scale properties are the prevailing ownership category in Slovenian private forests. Owners are becoming increasingly diverse with predominant multifunctional management orientation which has led to underutilisation of wood potentials over the past decades. We surveyed forest-related stakeholders (24) to understand their perceptions on factors affecting private forest management. We used their perceptions, as opposed to the actual barriers, to understand what needs to be changed in forest policy. This study is based on the latest (private forest owners) PFOs typology conducted in Slovenia which resulted in types of engaged and detached forest owners. A typology based framework for data collection and analysis was performed using six pre-set categories from operational environment. We followed the Simple Multiple-Attribute Rating Techniques method to evaluate the most important private forest management hindering factors. The results showed that stakeholders perceived only minor differences between owner types according to hindering factors. The psychological factors were perceived as the crucial category separating the two types, suggesting that detached owners are more substantially driven by personal decisions, which follow recent societal changes. The group of economic factors was recognized as the most important category for both types suggesting that forest policy should prioritize profit-oriented management strategies. The results imply that owner-specific forest policy may not be the priority for stakeholders and that the problems of private forest management can be solved with the implementation of innovative and active policy measures, which take into account multifunctional forest management orientation of PFOs, their characteristics and ownership trends.

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订婚和独立森林所有者中阻碍森林管理的因素：斯洛文尼亚利益相关者的看法

小型物业是斯洛文尼亚私人森林中的主要所有权类别。业主以多功能管理为主导，变得越来越多样化，在过去的几十年中导致了木材潜力的未充分利用。我们调查了与森林有关的利益相关者（24），以了解他们对影响私有森林管理的因素的看法。我们利用他们的看法而不是实际的障碍来理解森林政策需要改变的地方。这项研究基于在斯洛文尼亚进行的最新（私人森林所有者）PFO类型，该类型导致了从事和独立森林所有者的类型。使用来自操作环境的六个预设类别执行了基于类型的数据收集和分析框架。我们遵循简单的多属性评级技术方法来评估最重要的私有林经营障碍因素。结果表明，利益相关者根据障碍因素仅感知所有者类型之间的细微差异。心理因素被认为是将两种类型分开的关键类别，这表明独立的所有者在很大程度上受到个人决定的驱动，而个人决定是随着最近的社会变化而变化的。经济因素组被认为是这两种类型中最重要的类别，这表明森林政策应优先考虑以利润为导向的管理策略。