Forest management plan as an instrument for socio-economic development of regions: a case study from Tusheti, Georgia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43310%2F21%3A43921140" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43310/21:43921140 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/21:43921140

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/publications/proceedings-archive/40500-and-working-parties-brno21-abstracts.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/publications/proceedings-archive/40500-and-working-parties-brno21-abstracts.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Forest management plan as an instrument for socio-economic development of regions: a case study from Tusheti, Georgia

Original language description

There are several protected areas in the region of Tusheti, Georgia (national park, strict nature reserve and protected landscape area). Their management has considerable gaps (inventory and forest management principles are missing). The condition of protected areas is not satisfactory and dynamic changes occur recently (vegetation dieback, occurrence of insects under bark). These are reasons for which the monitoring of forest ecosystems has to take place and forest management measures have to be adjusted in order to allow careful exploitation of forest ecosystems in line with the management targets. During years of 2014-2015 the Georgian Agency of Protected Area declared needs (after discussion with different stakeholders) for Tusheti region, that can be described as follows (only a few examples): non-existence of the forest inventory; occurrence of forests, grasslands, pasturelands and their acreage has not been determined precisely; forest areas have not been precisely defined and forest types have not been determined (defined) - the characterization of natural conditions does not exist; definitions of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of wood-producing resources (forest functions) do not exist; the health condition of forest ecosystems is not assessed; indicators of timber volume in the given area are not defined (annual increment, timber supply, timber use possibilities, logging limits, regeneration possibilities etc.); tree species composition and representation of individual species in the given area are not defined or determined etc. As a project outputs were created maps and methodological procedures for the forest management (forest status determination) and planning; evaluation of the condition of forest ecosystems in Tusheti region of Georgia from the perspective of their endangerment by biotic factors (namely by under-bark insects), proposed methodology for basic forest management planning with emphasis on forest protection and assurance of the fulfilment of other forest functions - management of forest stands in the sense of near-natural forest management. The paper deals results from the 4-years pilot project (2015-2018) for develop at setting up a basic model of sustainable forest management system built on actual data obtained about the condition of forest ecosystems reflected into the forest management plan of the pilot area (cca 2350 ha). An inseparable part of the outputs were a series of training courses for stakeholders, in which these were informed in detail about individual methodological procedures, map outputs, their use, and were trained for the collection of basic field data and their processing. The aim was also to enhance the qualification of staff working at Administrations of Protected Landscape Areas. Within the project solution, a simple forest management plan was be set up that would provide a general view about possibilities of using wood for the local population with respect to the current condition of forest stands within the framework of forest site classification (qualitative and quantitative evaluation, characterization of forest types). Emphasis was put on the reduction of negative factors, namely the occurrence of forest insect pests, forest fires, soil erosion, etc.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů