Balancing landscape-level forest management between recreation and wood production

Eggers, Jeannette; Lindhagen, A; Lind, Torgny; Lämås, Tomas; Öhman, Karin

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2018.04.016

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“…Costa Freitas [62] used a three-element assessment of risk (fire), biodiversity and profitability of forest management in the Mediterranean forests in the south of Portugal. Multi-analysis of forest use intensity and tourist pressure indicators enabled Eggers [63] to propose various scenarios for forest management in southern Sweden. The idea of coding the forest is not new, however it gives us opportunity to describe full potential of each forest precisely with digits that allow us to order and compare different stands.…”

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The Concept of Regulating Forest Management in a Region Subject to High Environmental Pressure

Borecki

Łopiński²,

Kędziora

et al. 2018

Forests

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In modern forestry, the complexity of the planning process is increasing, specifically in the context of the sustainable use of forest resources and its adaptation to climate changes. This article presents the concept of forest use regulation promoting the sustainable forestry development in forest management planning. A method for defining a synthetic criterion of assessing important features of stand structure was proposed, which would enable the classification of stands in terms of needs and the urgency of their transformation (reconstruction) or suitability for longer standing. As a result, such a concept may ensure the preservation of the relative uniformity of logging use and the improvement of age structure as well as an increase of natural values of the forest, regardless of a stand’s age. The concept was tested on a large forest complex (over 0.5 million hectares) subjected to intense environmental pressure (Silesian Region in Poland). We prepared long-term individualistic development forecasts, separately for area and volume. Based on this, we followed the cutting uniformity principle in the analysed time period by calculating a long-term average of cutting allowance. It was determined by averaging the projected usage size in moving window and eventually was adopted as the cutting upper limit in the whole analysed period. The proposed size of cuts in each period resulted from the relation between the average value and the forecast. Three sets of stands of the differentiated urgency of interventions were distinguished: I—well-stocked and stable stands (no need of intervention)—55% of stands area, II – acceptable stands (not urgent intervention needed)—35% and III—poor stands (urgent intervention needed)—10%. This concept joins top-down and bottom-up approach of cutting uniformity that focuses stand’s status instead of its age or dimensions.

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The Concept of Regulating Forest Management in a Region Subject to High Environmental Pressure

Borecki

Łopiński²,

Kędziora

et al. 2018

Forests

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“…This study is novel because it developed space-based factors and introduced not only the ecological characteristics of forest wetlands, but also the land use ownership or distance from the city for land feasibility. As reported by Eggers et al (2018) [19], such an assessment tool as that developed in this study can be useful for local government forest wetland management as well as for determining the characteristics of an individual forest wetland. As a result of this assessment system that was composed of 5 criteria and 16 factors in 107 study sites, 3 types were statistically classified depending on their spatial characteristics.…”

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“…Despite an increasing number of studies regarding the ecological significance of wetland biodiversity [16] including studies highlighting potential conflicts between conservation and utilization [18][19][20], few studies have incorporated human presence in wetland management. The conservation aspects of wetlands to date have been the focus rather than the management of human presence in wetlands.…”

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A GIS-Assisted Assessment and Attribute-Based Clustering of Forest Wetland Utility in South Korea

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The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of forest wetlands by developing factors for site suitability and applying these factors to 107 sites in South Korea. We developed a forest wetland assessment in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment to assess site suitability. We considered 16 factors including slope, elevation, visibility, land ownership, distance to city, and so on. We conducted an expert survey with experts to analyze the relative importance by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). We found that the order of importance of the 5 criteria applied in this study was: (1) Natural Ecology, (2) Land Use, (3) Natural Landscape, (4) Tourist Attraction, and (5) Accessibility. We then analyzed the spatial characteristics of each site based on the AHP result and divided the 107 forest wetlands into three categories by cluster analysis. Sites with high scores on the assessment were primarily the landscape ecology or land use criterion. Our differentiation of these forest wetland characteristics could help enable policymakers to develop sustainable management with the aim of balancing conservation with utilization in ecotourism destinations.

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“…With increased environmental protection pressure and greater demands for forest tourism and recreation, plantation forests have gradually shifted from a sole timber production function to multi-functional management, and from passive multi-functional utilization to active multi-functional operation [2]. The value of forest tourism and recreation has become an important aspect of the total value of the plantation forestry economy and an increasingly important determining factor in multi-functional forest operations [3]. People explore forests through multiple senses such as sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, of which vision is dominant [4].…”

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GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Assessment and Seasonal Impact on Plantation Forest Landscape Visual Sensitivity

Yang

Zhang

et al. 2019

Forests

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Visual sensitivity assessments identify the location of the high-sensitivity areas in terms of visual change. Studying the visual sensitivity of plantation forest landscapes and their seasonal changes can help resolve increasingly frequent conflicts between tourism and forest management activities, in the context of the multi-functional management of plantation forests. In this study, we used the geographic information system (GIS) and multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) methods combined with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to perform a visual sensitivity evaluation. Nine map-based criteria were selected, and the visual sensitivity of summer and autumn values were calculated, using data from sources including inventory data for forest management planning and design, digital elevation model (DEM), and aerial photographs. Vegetation uniformity (VU) and color diversity (CD) indices were constructed using three patch-level-based landscape indices, including area (AREA), fractal dimension index (FRAC), and proximity (PROX), to visualize the summer and autumn vegetation characteristics of a plantation forest landscape. We conducted a case study on the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Plantation, China’s largest forest plantation. The results were evaluated by experts, confirming the method to be reliable. This study provides an accurate, objective, and visualized evaluation method for the visual sensitivity of plantations for forest management units at the landscape scale. In analyzing the visual sensitivity of plantation forest landscapes, appropriate criteria, e.g., uniformity or diversity should be selected based on forest vegetation characteristics. When identifying high-sensitivity regions, it is necessary to simultaneously analyze areas with high visual sensitivity in different seasons and then superimpose the results.

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Balancing landscape-level forest management between recreation and wood production

Cited by 34 publications

References 30 publications

The Concept of Regulating Forest Management in a Region Subject to High Environmental Pressure

The Concept of Regulating Forest Management in a Region Subject to High Environmental Pressure

A GIS-Assisted Assessment and Attribute-Based Clustering of Forest Wetland Utility in South Korea

GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Assessment and Seasonal Impact on Plantation Forest Landscape Visual Sensitivity

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