Strategies for Sustainable Management of Hyrcanian Forests, Resulting from the Logging Ban, Using TOPSIS and Shannon's Entropy

Falakian, Haya; Hassanzad Navroodi, Iraj; Omidi, Ali

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Volume 12, Issue 25 (3-2025)

PEC 2025, 12(25): 74-87

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Strategies for Sustainable Management of Hyrcanian Forests, Resulting from the Logging Ban, Using TOPSIS and Shannon's Entropy

Haya Falakian¹

, Iraj Hassanzad Navroodi ^*

, Ali Omidi³

1- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Guilan, Sowmeh sara, Iran
Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Guilan, Sowmeh sara, Iran, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Guilan, Sowmeh sara, Iran , iraj.hassanzad@gmail.com
3- General Directorate of Natural Resources and Watershed Management of Guilan province, Rasht, Iran

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After the logging ban in Hyrcanian forests, it is necessary to investigate its consequences. The purpose of this research is to identify appropriate strategies resulting from the logging ban for future forestry plans. First, the positive and negative consequences were categorized according to the origin of the effect as internal and external SWOT factors. After screening items with acceptable validity and reliability, four SWOT strategies—progressive (SO), competitive diversity (ST), revision (WO), and defensive (WT)—were determined. Forty-five strategies based on sustainable management were evaluated using the TOPSIS technique through a Delphi survey (15 experts) with purposeful sampling and a 7-point Likert scale. The results of Shannon's entropy calculations showed that the strategy of management structure, local forest communities, ecological and health values, dealing with risks, and other global forest functions have the most weight and influence in the ranking of sustainable management strategies. The results indicated that, according to the Pareto principle, 34 strategies account for 80% of the importance. Therefore, for sustainable management, a wide range of decisions should be incorporated into forestry plans. Strategies include the expansion of wood farming, conserving habitats, special trees, ruined parcels, and the outskirts of villages, wood and non-wood exploitation subject to the elimination of forest destruction factors, increasing the income of traditional users, and designing and implementing forestry plans that are balanced across all forest areas. Additional measures include stricter restrictions on traditional animal husbandry, conditional interaction with forest herders for protection and restoration, and the integration of management, environmental, and social perspectives in the supervision of forestry plans. Promotion of education programs and natural resources is also emphasized. Basic exploitation through growing young stands, reducing natural hazards, increasing wood cultivation, eliminating hydrological disturbances in the forest road zone, and implementing forestry plans based on sustainability criteria are considered the most important solutions for sustainable forest management.

Article number: 6

Keywords: Strategies, Consequences, Logging Ban, Hyrcanian Forests, Sustainable Forest Management, TOPSIS

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2024/02/11 | Accepted: 2024/08/27 | Published: 2025/04/24

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