Technical Efficiency Assessment of Land Transactions in Forest Areas Under Consolidation Campaign in Bulgarian South Western State Enterprise

Land consolidationLand consolidation in forestForests areas constantly appears in all forestForests areas where the ownership is distributed between the state and the private owners. The managers face the hard problem of taking decisions combining multiple criteria, which do not integrate the various aspects into one indicatorIndicators. This article summarizes the main characteristics and features of forestForests land areas under consolidation that can be involved in one criterion to support the decision-making. The aim of the current study is to propose a managerial approach suitable to support multi-criteria decision processes based on the technical efficiencyEfficiency of the forestForests territories when consolidation is being undertaken. The approach implemented here is a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis that is quite appropriate for the technical efficiencyEfficiency estimation of forestForests areas being consolidated. The main results reveal that the quality of the current forestsForests standing on the purchased areas is not the main benefit, but the quality of habitats.