Traditional Forest Management and its Application to Encourage Public Participation for Sustainable Forest Management in the Northern Zagros Mountains of Kurdistan Province, Iran

Ghazanfari, Hedayat; Namiranian, Manoochehr; Sobhani, H; Mohajer, R Marvie

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“…Collecting an appropriate data set on soil erosion is essential to draw the sustainable managerial strategies for a watershed management, since soil erosion stands at the top priority (Singh, 2003;Ghazanfari et al 2003;Emadodin et al, 2012;Eskandarie, 2012;Sadeghi and Cerda, 2015;Zakerinejad and Maerker, 2015) among different types of land degradation. It is used for the integrated watershed management which aims at coordinating various sectors in the national level in order to protect the safety of the people and arriving at economically productive, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable watershed needs.…”

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Soil Erosion in Iran: State of the Art, Tendency and Solutions

Sadeghi¹

2017

AgricultForest

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Soil Erosion in Iran: State of the Art, Tendency and Solutions

Sadeghi¹

2017

AgricultForest

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“…The executive management was the most relevant factor involved in the crisis in the forest due to legal liability and options available; while the second most relevant factor is local people. With regard to the role of local people in management of Zagros forest and socio-economic problems in these forests (Ghazanfari et al, 2004;Valipour et al, 2014), it was observed that the local residents were the most effective in dealing with the crisis in executive management activities. Universities and research centers are the third most relevant factor, because they function in the production of information.…”

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“…Targeting in the forestry systems is required to be performed with the cooperation of the local people. Cooperation of the local people in targeting leads to the presence of social demands in forestry projects (Ghazanfari et al, 2004;Salam et al, 2006). Taking into account the social demands in targets of plan design leads to elimination of some of the technical demand of forest management, but the likelihood of achieving and reaching goals increases.…”

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“…Stabilizing factors are atmospheric CO 2 and greenhouse gases. The basis of policy makings in these forests has been providing sectional policies, disproportionate with forest conditions and incompatible with the local communities living in the forest (Ghazanfari et al, 2004). This matter has provided the background for pre-oriented each system tends toward disorder due to inside and outside forces.…”

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Evaluating Existing Strategies in Environmental Crisis of Zagros Forests of Iran

Zandebasiri¹

2017

Appl Ecol Env Res

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Abstract. Zagros vegetation region is located in the west and southwest of the country of Iran. Nowadays, these forests are in severe quantitative and qualitative environmental dangers due to various climatic reasons, uncontrolled exploitation, overgrazing of livestock and lack of knowledge about management requirements and have become seriously affected. In the last 6 years, there have been numerous reports about the decline of oak trees in the central and southern Zagros forests. In this research was evaluated existing policies in decline crisis of Zagros forest of Iran with game theory. The research process has been conducted in several sections. In the first section of the research, key players of the decline crisis game in Zagros forests were examined, in order to evaluate strategies for crisis. In the second section of the research, the main strategies of the key players in decline crisis management were determined. Thereafter, the benefits of different strategies for key players were quantitatively evaluated with game theory. The result shows that it is clear from the diagram of the evaluation result of players in crisis game in Zagros forests that mode of results is in the executive management and local people of Zagros forests. Executive management has been having protection of forest resources and rainfall saving strategies. In reaction, local people has been having corporation and lack of corporation strategies. It can be extracted from the game theory model in this research that the game has 2 Nash Equilibriums (NE) in combination of protection of forest resources with lack of corporation of the people and combination of saving rainfall with corporation of the people. Based on the results there is no useful role for rainfall saving in Zagros forest of Iran. The way out of this impasse is to design appropriate policies in Zagros forests for the balance of rainfall saving and protection of forest resources, in a way that it follows the local community cooperation.

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“…is one of the dominant tree species in these forests. Although the policy of Iran's Forest and Rangeland Organization is to conserve these forests, due to the lack of social acceptance and participation, this policy has not been successfully implemented yet (Ebrahimi-Rastaghi 2001; Ghazanfari et al 2004). Consequently, traditional exploitations by local communities living in these regions have still continued.…”

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Estimation of leaf area index and assessment of its allometric equations in oak forests: Northern Zagros, Iran

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AbStrAct:The focus of the present study is the estimation of leaf area index (LAI) and the assessment of allometric equations for predicting the leaf area of Lebanon oaks (Quercus libani Oliv.) in Iran's northern Zagros forests. To that end, 50 oak trees were randomly selected and their biophysical parameters were measured. Then, on the basis of destructive sampling of the oak trees, their specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf area were measured. The results showed that SLA and LAI of the Lebanon oaks were 136.9 cm·g -1 and 1.99, respectively. Among all the parameters we measured, the crown volume exhibited the highest correlation with LAI (r 2 = 0.65). The easily measured tree parameters such as diameter at breast height did not show a high correlation with leaf area (r 2 = 0.36). Our obtained moderate correlations in the allometric equations could be due to the fact that branches of these trees had been pollarded by the local people when the branches were only 3 or 4 years old; therefore, the natural structure of the crowns in these trees might have been damaged.

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Traditional Forest Management and its Application to Encourage Public Participation for Sustainable Forest Management in the Northern Zagros Mountains of Kurdistan Province, Iran

Cited by 85 publications

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Soil Erosion in Iran: State of the Art, Tendency and Solutions

Soil Erosion in Iran: State of the Art, Tendency and Solutions

Evaluating Existing Strategies in Environmental Crisis of Zagros Forests of Iran

Estimation of leaf area index and assessment of its allometric equations in oak forests: Northern Zagros, Iran

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