Author(s):
1. Beytollah Mahmoudi, Shahrekord university, Iran

Abstract:
Zagros forests as the vast forest areas of Iran have been the living place of forest dwellers and nomads since the time immemorial and have been converted into a vital source of livelihood; as such that the revenues obtained from forest constitute a significant part of Forest dwellers incomes. The approach used in this research has been descriptive and quantitative analysis by using the semi-structured interview. At first, the effect of the income obtained from the forest on the family's economy was examined; then, the poverty line and poverty indexes including census ratio, poverty gap, Foster, Greer, Thorbeck, Amartya Sen and Gini coefficient were calculated and analyzed. The results showed that people earn money through 9 living strategies that forest with annual revenue of 27718176 Rials for each family has the second economic portion with 18.07 percent. 76 percent of people are under poverty line which reached 88 percent by removing forest income, and 12 percent of families were transformed into under poverty line, and this has made 1.54 times increase in depth of poverty. Index of Foster, Greer, and Thorbeck has been 0.15, and it has reached 0.23 percent after removal of forests. Moreover, the omission of forest revenue makes 11 percent increases in unequal distribution of incomes.

Key words:
Forest dwellers, Livelihood, poverty indexes, Zagros Forests of Iran

Thematic field:
Forest policy, economics, and organization in forestry

Date of abstract submission:
20.08.2017.

Conference:
Šumarska nauka u funkciji održivog razvoja šumarstva
25 godina šumarstva Republike Srpske

Abstract