Integrated Multiple-use Forest Planning and Management : Integrated Sustainable Multiple-use Forest Management under the Market System. Proceedings from IUFRO International Conference

Kopenhagen

1992

S. 305-314

12 Lit. Ang.

Bandaufführung

87-89822-12-9

76590

Multiple-use forests should be managed to provide a mix of social values for current and future generations. For most of the last 200 years, the benefits of public and private forests in the Western world were predominantly utilitarian and their immediate social value expressed primarily in market prices. As these countries industrialized and urbanized, romantic and symbolic forest values increased. Today the social values of forest recreation, landscape amenity, biological diversity, cultural heritage and environmental protection are of increasing importance. These forest social values are not well communicated by the economic system. They rely on social and political systems to express their values. Utilitarian social values are often in conflict with romantic and symbolic forest values today; thus foresters increasingly are placed in the role of conflict managers. In what they do and do not do, foresters can reduce or increase social conflict. In this article multiple-use forestry is defined, and the development of the concept and the present status in the Danish Forest Act are described, together with some examples of integrated multiple-use forest planning and management.