Criteria and indicators of monitoring the sustainable wood production and forest conservation using AHP (Case study: Kheyrud educational and research forest)

• DOI: 10.5897/ajar.9000136
• Publication Date: 2009-10-31
• Authors: Seyyed Zahra Gous...; J Feghhi; Mohammad Reza Mar...; M Makhdoum
• Keywords: Sustainable Forest Management; Forest Inventory; Sustainable Management; Wood production

Sustainable forest management is known as the most effective type of management. This mode aimed at enabling sustainable and comprehensive development in forest-related sectors. Practicing forests requires powerful tools order to ensure achieving objectives and, same time, direct processes a way. Forest plan suitable means carry out this monitoring. Though, tool set motion, scheme. certain proper criteria indicators practice. The have various applications within plan, including their application monitoring plans. In fact, are themselves derived from functions practiced forests. Therefore, knowing few forests, we can outline indicators. study prioritizing required for plans Caspian general Kheyrud particular. first made using hierarchical analysis two wood production conservation Formulating these helps forest’s be used determining, measuring, analyzing assessing sustainability under study.

Key words: Monitoring indicators, function, function.