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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 1999, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (4): 492-496.

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Benefit evaluation on water and soil conservation forest A review

Shen Hui, Jiang Fengqi   

  1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinica, Shenyang 110015
  • Received:1999-01-27 Revised:1999-05-19 Online:1999-07-25 Published:1999-07-25

Abstract: Water and soil conservation forest is an important kind of protection forests, which has ecological, social and economic benefits.The evaluation on its comprehensive benefits is currently a significant topic, and the methodologies are quite different due to different interests.The evaluation process begins with constructing a set of complete index system and determining the weight of each index, then the benefits are calculated by appropriate mathematical methods, and last, the assessing models of evaluating comprehensive benefits are defined.Several representative evaluation methods and assessing models are appraised, and the problems and tendencies of research on benefit evaluation are pointed out in this paper.

Key words: Water and soil conservation forest, Benefits evaluation, Index system, Assessing models