Rational harvesting policy and sustainable development of community in forest regions

Abstract

Forest ecosystem is one of the most important ecosystems in the world that human-beings rely on. Forest harvesting policy is one of the main criteria indicating how and how much the human beings open up and make use of forest. Whether the policy is reasonable or not has high relations with not only the increasing or decreasing of forest system, but also the development speed of human society. In this paper, the author analyzed the development of interaction between human society and forest ecosystem from ancient times to today. Then author stated that the rational harvesting policy should be the harvesting sequences of both harvesting density and harvesting time, which might result in the maximum comprehensive benefit, including economical profit, social benefit and ecological benefit, of forest to human society. At last, according to the analysis of interaction between human-beings and her environment, the prediction analysis for human society development in forest regions in the future was presented using Entropy Growting Analysis.

Keywords

Forest harvesting / Rational harvesting policy / Sustainable development / Forest regions

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