GEMET

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

environmental management > forest management > sustainable forest management
environmental management > sustainable management > sustainable forest management

Preferred term

sustainable forest management  

Definition

  • stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way, and at a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to fulfil, now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic and social functions, at local, national and global levels, and that does not cause damage to other ecosystems

Broader concept

Related concepts

Scope note

  • Improved definition (EN only): forest biodiversity based on man's intervention

Belongs to group

Belongs to array

In other languages

URI

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/15305

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD