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Public participation in environmental decision-making is nowadays accepted as an integral part of thesustainable development process and an important mean for improving quality, legitimacy and capacity ofenvironmental assessment and decisions. When communities participate in the management of their resources inform of consultation or active involvement, there is a greater likelihood of success as people are more willing toobey their own regulations than those imposed upon them from outside. This paper presents results of a survey inSerbia-BiH cross border region that explored the attitudes of local people towards natural resources andenvironment quality, environmental priorities and efficiency of local government in solving environmentalproblems. Results were used as inputs for drafting "Action plan for sustainable use of cross border naturalresource" contributing in this way to better acceptance and easier implementation of the plan at the communitylevel.

The monograph contains the experimental results of quantitative and qualitative properties of fast-growing willows and perennial crop Miscanthus grown on agricultural land in south-west Slovakia and Miscanthus, grain Sorghum and Phalaris species in Serbia. Individual chapters are addressed to current state and perspectives of biomass production in rural development and marginal land suitable for biomass production based on examples in Slovakia and Serbia. Estimation of biomass production within case study of the farm Kolíňany (Slovakia) with example of biogas use is included. The economic part of the monograph is devoted to bioenergy on the energy market and to modelling of revitalisation of agricultural land for biomass. Evaluation of economic efficiency of woody plants /Salix/ and perennial crops /Miscanthus/, cultivation of arable land of farms in the conditions of Slovakia and Serbia provides applicable knowledge for practical growers. Overview on EU and national legislation and entrepreneurship support for biomass production is provided as well. The monograph provides valuable information and an overview of current knowledge and trends with a number of literature sources and their comparison with the results of the project team.