Social participation into regional forest planning attending to multifunctional objectives

Margarita Rico and Andrés González

Forest Policy and Economics, 2015, vol. 59, issue C, 27-34

Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to determine the adequate forest strategy to fulfil the multi-functional objectives that society demands. To this end, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been applied as a quantitative technique to prioritise various forestry planning measures in the Autonomous Region of Castilla y León, based on the opinion of a group of stakeholders representing the region's forestry sector. The need to promote this forest multi-functionality is a matter of priority for forest policies at international, national and regional levels. The final results indicate that society prefers clearly multi-functional forests, judging from the highly balanced weightings given to social, environmental and economic objectives and action measures.

Keywords: Forest multi-functionality; Multi-criteria decision-making techniques; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Stakeholders; Castilla y León (Spain) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.05.007

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