Assessing the sustainability of community forest management: A case study from Iran
| Autor: | Fateme Aghamir, Ali Jafari, Steven Van Passel, Hamdollah Sadeghi Kaji, Kindeya Gebrehiwot, Hossein Azadi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | VAN PASSEL, Steven, Gebrehiwot, Kindeya, AZADI, Hossein, Jafari, Ali, Kaji, Hamdollah Sadeghi, Aghamir, Fateme |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Government 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Sociology and Political Science Economics business.industry Forest management Environmental resource management Sustainable forest management Capacity building Criteria and indicators Central Zagros forests Dopolan Iran Forestry 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Ranking Sustainability Pairwise comparison Business Forest protection Biology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Forest policy and economics |
| ISSN: | 1389-9341 |
| Popis: | The development of sustainability criteria and indicators is necessary to assess the current management and to recognize appropriate management approaches towards sustainable forest management (SFM). The aim of this study is to assess the sustainability of current management in the Dopolan community forest and assess alternative management scenarios towards SFM. To this end, we applied multi criteria analysis which consists of three steps: a) developing a primary set of criteria and indicators (C&Is) on focus groups discussions, b) finalizing and weighing the set of C&Is, applying a pair wise comparison as well as ranking method, and c) assessing the current forest management regimes and alternative scenarios against a set of C&Is. As a result, 8 criteria and 40 indicators were selected. Our results indicated that to achieve SFM, the criteria including forest protection against natural and human factors, the establishment of appropriate legal and institutional requirements and socioeconomic functions of forests, are the most important criteria (weighted 14.60%, 14.28% and 13.96%, respectively). Assessing the current management regimes revealed that the criteria consisting of biodiversity conservation and local communities' awareness have the maximum distance to SFM (weighted 7.75% and 9.18%, respectively). Among the alternative forest management scenarios, the sixth scenario namely conservation and rehabilitation, local investment attraction in forest conservation and rehabilitation, enabling and capacity building of forest inhabitants were realized as the best scenarios (weighted 26.20%) to achieve SFM. A joint effort of the concerned government forestry officials and local people is needed to enhance the sustainability of all community based forestry models. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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