Índice de sostenibilidad para evaluar el impacto de la producción forestal no maderable en los medios de vida rurales

Abstract

Abstract:To improve the multidimensional sustainability of NTFP production requires relevant indicators that allow the monitoring and evaluation of their progress. The objective of this work is to create a sustainability index to evaluate the impact of production non-timber forestry in rural livelihoods. In this qualitative research and quantitative analysis, 118 indicators were identified in the related literature and, of these, based on the Delphi method, 108 indicators were selected: 24 economic, 18 social, 23 environmental, 15 cultural and 28 political/institutional. These indicators, prior to normalization, using the min-max method, are added to a two-level index. In it At the first level the indicators are added to a dimensional sub-index and at the second level the indicators subscripts are added to the index. The sustainability index scores between 0 and 1, the more Closer to 1, the greater the level of sustainability and the closer to 0, the opposite. HE hopes that this index will serve as a methodological basis for evaluating the sustainability of non-timber forest production, as a whole or individually.