Comprehensive Evaluation of Sustainable Forest Managementin Jinggu County, Yunnan Province

The sustainable forest management of Jinggu County, Yunnan Province was discussed based on the general goal in Jinggu County for sustainable forest development, together with objectives of sustainable development of forest resources, continuous implementation of the forests' ecological benefits, increasing economic benefit of forestry, and the long term stability of social benefits. The appraisal index system of sustainable forest management in Jinggu County was constructed with 8 categories of targets and 43 indexes. Values of each single index were determined and its realization ratio was solved. The realization ratio of each category of indexes was calculated by normalizing process on the basis of the realization ratio of individual index. The value of the 43 indexes was calculated through adding weight value. The results showed that the comprehensive index value of ecological environment sustainability was 0.681, that of sociological sustainability value was 0.621, both of these two values were in weak sustainable status. The comprehensive index value of forest resource sustainability was 0.496, whereas that of economic sustainability value was 0.540, both of them were in weak non-sustainable status. The comprehensive index value of forest management was 0.566, and the overall status was weakly non-sustainable.