Introduction: In recent years, one of the most important challenges in the management of Hyrcanian forests is the continuation of the process of forests logging or its logging ban (forest respiration). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and...

Iranian per capita forest area is as low as one-fourth of the global one. However, the Iranian forests have experienced a rapid degradation and frequently-occurred fire events. Therefore, this study aims to consider driving factors of forest fires in the Iranian forests as well as to investigate...

In this study, in order to investigate the effects of climatic-economic variables on the degradation of forests in Iran, the Autoregressive Distributed-lagged model (ARDL) has been applied during the period from 1991 to 2014. The results of the short-term estimation revealed that the dependent...

The aim of this paper is to measure the relative performance of forest management units considering economics and carbon dynamic in Caspian forests of Iran. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) was ...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been recognized as an analysis of the impacts that a project can impose on the environment, with the purpose of balancing the positive and negative impacts of the project. Forest road construction is one of the costliest and most important projects that its ...

Forest logging is one of the most important goals of forest management system having different economic and social consequences. This research aims at identifying, weighting and prioritizing the economic and social consequences of forest logging using the points of view of the experts, specialists...

The sources of raw wood for industries in Iran are forest, imports, wood cultivation and garden waste. However, Restrictions on imports and bans on logging in forest areas in recent years have caused greater attention to wood cultivation and in particular to poplar cultivation. Despite the...

The aim of this research was to evaluate the non-market products of a forest park in north of Iran. Required socio-economics data were collected using questionnaires. Travel cost method was used to estimate the economics and recreational values. Regression analysis was used to estimate some socio-...

Seasonal fluctuations play an important role in the pricing of a timber sale. A good understanding of timber price mechanisms and predictability in the timber market would be very practical for forest owners, managers, and investors, and is crucial for the correct functioning of the timber sector....

The purpose of this study was to analyze the economic effects of oak trees dieback on villagers in Malekshahi County. The statistical sample of the study was 216 villagers who were selected based on the Cochran formula and using the proportionate stratified random sampling method. The main tool for ...