Volume : 4, Issue : 1, January - 2015

Opening up and Sustainable development of mountainous regions

Vasileios J. Giannoulas, Vasileios C. Drosos, Evangelos Karagiannis, Aristotelis Kosmas G. Doucas

Abstract :

<p>In 2009, in Copenhagen found out that while the ices melt interest for the environment &ldquo;freezes&rdquo; because of the economic< /> crisis. The sustainable development is the best answer to this bleak outlook. The principal objective of the paper is the< /> evaluation of the opening up of the mountainous forest of Greece.< /> The calculation of the optimum road density is calculated by the method of internal rate, but is also evaluated empirically.< /> In mountainous forests of Greece analyse the conditions of opening up&ndash;harvesting of wood. The opening up is investigated based on the< /> optimum road density:< /> &ndash; The theoretical optimum (Dth) i.e., when the total costs become minimum.< /> &ndash; The economical optimum (Dec) i.e., when construction costs are equal to the skidding costs.< /> &ndash; The maximum (Dmax) i.e. when not taken into account the construction costs of roads and the loss of land revenue.< /> &ndash; The formulation of the opening up of forest areas is impossible, since each forest area is something special that requires a special handling. The< /> techno&ndash;economic opening up of each forest area is achieved after a thorough study of the traffic, the soil and climate, and forest, financial and< /> ecological conditions of the region.< /> &ndash; In productive mountainous forests with technical&ndash;economic criteria i.e. when not considering indirect benefits, in terms of opening up (road< /> network) there is a problem of excessive road construction through uneven space distribution of the forest roads in places.</p>