Forest territorial organization for exploitation of byproducts in the central Zagros(Case Study: Forests of Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari province)

Subject Areas : forest

Zahra Azizi ¹ , Asghar Hoseini ² , Hamed Sadeghian ³

1 - Assistant professor, department of remote sensing and GIS, Islamic Azad university, science and research branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - - Master of science at forestry, faculty of natural resources and earth science, university of Shahrekord
3 - Master of science at forestry, faculty of agriculture, university of Yasooj.

Received: 2016-10-07 Accepted : 2017-05-15 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: central Zagros, Forest territorial organizing, Conventional territory,

Abstract :

Nowadays, severe destruction in Zagros forests is obvious because of environmental and socioeconomical problems. According to the laws in IRAN, the most important task of forest, range and watershed management organization is conservation, restoration and development of forests. The optimal forest management is the best solution to do. So this study has been conducted the forest territorial organizing for exploitation of byproducts in the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari province (the central Zagros). In order to achieve the goal, “The Analytic Network Process” was used. The most important criteria effective in determination of management unit in central Zagros were identified. Then the experts were surveys to determine the importance of each criteria factor in achieving the purpose. Using the appropriate software (Super Decisions 1.6.0) were analyzed the expert’s opinions. The results of this study indicate that the best choice among three alternatives is village conventional territory as management unit in central Zagros followed by family conventional territory and watershed.

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