FOREST RESOURCES PLANNING IN THE SCOPE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

sustainability, harvest scheduling, operations research, forest heritage, activity unit, forest district, planning horizon, human needs, ecosystem, yield, stand. The idea of sustainable development has been based on the illusion that we can have it all. Sustainable development is an oxymoron, suggesting that it can be sustained ecosystem functioning while achieving steady economic growth. In parts of the world where poverty reduces people’s capacity to use forests and other ecosystems in ways that protect ecosystem functioning, some economic growth for a limited period of time may be necessary to avoid intensifying pressures on ecosystems. Sustainable development, in the broadest sense, integrates all of the biological, social, economic, cultural and other factors that affect national management decisions. Everything affects everything else in this view of sustainable development and, therefore, one must know everything about everything to make informed decisions. This may be ultimately true, but only in varying degrees. In this investigation in the light of all the sustainable development factors, how the forest managers must manage the forest resources to compensate the needs without decrease the forests. Some forest management ways are advised and emerged as well as constraints related to forest resources to achive the sustainable development