DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL FOR SUPPORTING DECISION-MAKING TO MANAGE BAMBOO FORESTS AT LOCAL SCALE

Abstract

 Recently Bamboo forests have been abandoned and it causes many environmental problems. Under this background, a tool that can evaluate environmental and economic impact of bomboo forests management was developed in this study. This model structure includes, strategies, banboo resource use options and management approaches and sub model to evaluate social-economic and environmental aspects. Specifically model inputs are the area of banboo and socio-economic characteristics of the target region and main model outputs are low-carbon effects and impacts to ecosystems, self sufficiency in the target region. Then this model was applied to Kobe city and Awaji resion, the former is the central urban city and the later is the rural area of Hyogo prefecture in Japan. This result implicates some effective bamboo management ways reflecting the characteristics of these two region. It is expected that this decision supporting model of bamboo forests will supports to plan the bamboo forest management under each regional environmental and socio-economic contexts.