GEMET
General
Multilingual
Environmental
Thesaurus
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

Other relations
Scope note

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

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