We address two main challenges facing the implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM) in the Hyrcanian forest of Iran: inconsistent forest policy and the use of outdated science and techniques. We propose the Sustainable Hyrcanian Forest Management Model (SHFMM) as the best currently...

The aim of this study was to investigate the issues of forest stakeholders with regard to their role in forest management. For this aim, the theory of calculating Shapley value was used for modelling a cooperative game for participatory management in Iranian forests. Four scenarios were used to...

Understanding the effects of silvicultural practices including single-tree selection on soil properties is essential for forest management in temperate broadleaved beech forests. Changes in physico-chemical and biological soil properties in 15 harvest-created gaps under single-tree selection and...

Vast areas of Zagros forests of Iran have been affected by oak decline in the last decade. Due to the rapid outbreak caused by charcoal disease and its destructive consequences on the natural ecosystems, it is essential to develop forest management plans that address innovative and appropriate...

Due to global warming and energy conservation, the importance of forests should be seriously considered. Forest could not only produce bioenergy by harvest to substitute fossil fuels, but also sequestrate carbon dioxide from the air without harvest. How to measure the trade-off between forests as...

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 ...

The study mainly aims at looking into the disparities in beneficiary's socio-economic status between the areas without implementation of forestry plans and the areas where forestry plans had initially been available even though they have recently been terminated as well. Babol Roud forestry plan is ...

The present study adopts a game theory approach analyzing land-use planning in Zagros forests, Iran. A Static Game of Incomplete Information (SGII) was applied to the evaluation of participatory forest management in the study area. This tool allows a complete assessment of sustainable forest...

Snow damage on natural stands is an important problem concerning mountainous forest management. In the present research, the frequency and intensity of heavy snow damage on natural stands and the relationship of damages with characteristics of trees, stand and topography were studied in mountainous ...

By examining the forest structure not only the forest conditions such as species composition, story and succession are determined, but also the future of forest in relation to growth, species diversity changes, canopy cover and basal area could be predicted. The purpose of this study was to...