International Conference   BUILDING INSIGHTS OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND ACCOUNTING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine May 17 � 19, 2007   IUFRO Unit 4.05.00 - Managerial Economics and Accounting IUFRO Unit 4.05.01 - Managerial, social and environmental accounting IUFRO Unit 4.05.02 - Managerial economics

Sustainable Forest Management Decision Making

in the Hyrcanian Forests of Iran

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

E-mail S_hoseini99@hotmail.com

Seyed Wajihallah Mousavi Mirkalei, Forests and Ranges Management Organization,

Harvesting and Wood Industry Office, Chalus, Iran.

E-mail: Mousavi_Mirkai@yahoo.com

The Natural Broadleaf Forests of Iran (i.e. the Hyrcanian Forests of Iran) are located in north of Iran near the Caspian Sea. These forests cover 1.8 million hectares and are completely natural and deciduous. Decision-making on forestry management in theses forestlands was started about 10 years ago. This new conception is distributed nearly to one million hectare while other forestry planning will move to this way in early future. An statistic data shows that these new forgery managing models were not only closed to sustainable managing, but theirs income doubled.

In this paper, sustainable forest management decision-making in the Hyrcanain Forests of Iran during last decade will be discussed in details.

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