Abstract
In Turkey, the understanding of planning focused on timber production has given its place on Multiple Use Management (MUM). Because the whole infrastructure of forestry with inventory system leading the way depends on timber production, some cases of bottle neck are expected during the transition period. Database design, probably the most important stage during the transition to MUM, together with the digital basic maps making up the basis of this infrastructure constitute the main point of this article. Firstly, the forest management philosophy of Turkey in the past was shortly touched upon in the article. Ecosystem Based Multiple Use Forest Management (EBMUFM) approaches was briefly introduced. The second stage of the process of EBMUFM, database design was described by examining the classical planning infrastructure and the coverage to be produced and consumed were suggested in the form of lists. At the application stage, two different geographical databases were established with GIS in Balcı Planning Unit of the years 1984 and 2006. Following that the related basic maps are produced. Timely diversity of the planning unit of 20 years is put forward comparatively with regard to the stand parameters such as tree types, age class, development stage, canopy closure, mixture, volume and increment.
Highlights
Forest resources in the world were planned and operated in the axis of timber production until the early 1960s
Initiating from sub compartment and compartment with the smallest database design, the evaluation in each scale will be easier in such issues as planning unit, forest enterprises, regional directories and forests in the whole Turkey
Database design is crucially important for various companies and facilities, private enterprises and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in order to evaluate the produced data through their own purposes consistent to the software they use
Summary
Forest resources in the world were planned and operated in the axis of timber production until the early 1960s. Multiple forest use philosophy being carried out the early 1990s has reached a level threatening forest sources by backing up the legal and technical infrastructures. In the period of last 20 years, anxieties about the decrease in biological diversity, climate changes, drought, nature and especially forest ecosystems as well as information flow, increase in the effectiveness of civil movements of nature protection have centered the ecosystem planning in the world agenda. Each country adapts the philosophy of forest sources management to forestry in its own entity even under varied names, by supported from international conventions and processes [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
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