Investigation Some Affecting Indicators on Participation in the Sustainable Management of Forests (Case study: traditional area of Kalgachi, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province)

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, Department of Natural Resources, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, I. R. Iran.

2 PhD Student of Silviculture, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, I. R. Iran.

3 PhD Student of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, I. R. Iran.

Abstract

This study aimed to investigation the status of participation in the sustainable management of the Kalgchy traditional area forests. Questionnaire was the main instrument which used in this study, that its various items were chosen by documentary studies and expert panel composed of prominent country experts and elite experts and distributed between local people and experts. Determination of the relationship between indicators was used by fuzzy techniques DEMATEL and for the role of social and economic factors on the participation of communities in sustainable forest management was used by logistic regression model. According to local people and experts, the participation of local people is low to moderate in the planning and implementation of projects. The results of model DEMATEL showed that the "help to upgrade facilities and human resources for the conservation and restoration" as the most influential and "administrative and technical co-operation" as an indicator of richest of participatory management indicators. Age and usage history of the forest area variables had inverse relation with the participation and the Pearson’s test results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between the incomes of local people with participate of sustainable forest management indicators.

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Forest Research and Development
Volume 4, Issue 3
December 2018
Pages 273-288

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