Evaluation according to criteria and ındicators of sustainable forest management: Saçinka Forest Planning Unit

Authors : Burak Çavdar, Hacı Yolasığmaz

Pages : 18-29

Doi:10.17474/acuofd.48359

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Publication Date : 2015-06-30

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The reasons such as; decrease in forest areas, deterioration in the structure, fragmented structures, decrease in water sources, environmental pollution and increase in carbon level in air are considered as the main sources of problems like global warming and global climate change. Countries have been trying to develop cooperative solutions for these problems since the mid-20th century. Sustainable forest management criteria and indicators, which were outcomes of Biological Diversity Agreement and the processes afterwards, have also been specified in Turkey based on Pan-European process indicators. According to this set of criteria and indicators, data are collected in the scale of Forest Enterprises and the current situation is evaluated in the meetings held by Regional Directorates of Forestry. Most of the data to be evaluated are obtained from forest management plans in the scale of Forest Planning Units and a great deal of economic indicators are dealt in the scale of Forestry Enterprises. Starting from this point of view; this study analyzes the SFM criteria and indicators set data of Saçinka Forest Planning Unit. Accordingly, it examines whether forest ecosystem is conducted in a sustainable way or not.
Keywords : Orman amenajmanı, ölçüt ve gösterge, sürdürülebilir orman yönetimi, uluslararası süreçler

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