Functional forest road network planning by consideration of environmental impact assessment for wood harvesting

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 142, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 109-116

  Gumus, Selcuk ^a   Acar, H Hulusi ^a   Toksoy, Devlet ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environmental impact assessment; Forest functions; Forest roads; Geographical information system; Wood harvesting

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARVESTING; PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; WOOD;

FOREST FUNCTIONS; WOOD HARVESTING;

FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HARVESTING; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WOOD;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FORESTRY; MAPS AS TOPIC; MOTOR VEHICLES; POLICY MAKING; TRANSPORTATION; TREES; TURKEY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; PLANNING; ROADS; WOOD;

EID: 44949091471     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9912-y     Document Type: Article

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