An Incomplete Information Static Game Evaluating Community-Based Forest Management in Zagros, Iran

The present study adopts a game theory approach analyzing land-use planning in Zagros forests, Iran. A Static Game of Incomplete Information (SGII) was applied to the evaluation of participatory forest management in the study area. This tool allows a complete assessment of sustainable forest planning producing two modeling scenarios based on (i) high and (ii) low social acceptance. According to the SGII results, the Nash Bayesian Equilibrium (NBE) strategy suggests the importance of landscape protection in forest management. The results of the NBE analytical strategy show that landscape protection with barbed wires is the most used strategy in local forest management. The response to the local community includes cooperation in conditions of high social acceptance and noncooperation in conditions of low social acceptance. Overall, social acceptance is an adaptive goal in forest management plans.

[1]  Prem L. Sankhayan,et al.  Playing forest governance games: State-village conflict in Iran , 2016 .

[2]  E. Bulte,et al.  Trust, regulation and participatory forest management: Micro-level evidence on forest governance from Ethiopia , 2019, World Development.

[3]  M. Namiranian,et al.  Traditional silvopastoral management and its effects on forest stand structure in northern Zagros, Iran , 2014 .

[4]  Chander Shahi,et al.  An evolutionary game-theoretic approach to the strategies of community members under Joint Forest Management regime , 2007 .

[5]  T. Maraseni,et al.  An assessment of governance quality for community-based forest management systems in Asia: Prioritisation of governance indicators at various scales , 2019, Land Use Policy.

[6]  A. Dastranj,et al.  Forest park site selection based on a Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process framework (Case study: the Galegol Basin, Lorestan province, Iran) , 2016 .

[7]  A. Angelsen,et al.  Poverty, sustainability, and household livelihood strategies in Zagros, Iran , 2012 .

[8]  C. Margules,et al.  Governance Challenges in an Eastern Indonesian Forest Landscape , 2018 .

[9]  EVALUATING EXISTING STRATEGIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OF ZAGROS FORESTS OF IRAN , 2017 .

[10]  S. M. Limaei.  Mixed strategy game theory, application in forest industry , 2010 .

[11]  Alessandro Paletto,et al.  Stakeholders' Preferences and the Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Services: A Comparative Analysis in Italy , 2018 .

[12]  P. Ellis,et al.  Reduced-impact logging practices reduce forest disturbance and carbon emissions in community managed forests on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico , 2019, Forest Ecology and Management.

[13]  A. K C,et al.  Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Community Forest in Nepal , 2015 .

[14]  H. Sobhani,et al.  Traditional Forest Management and its Application to Encourage Public Participation for Sustainable Forest Management in the Northern Zagros Mountains of Kurdistan Province, Iran , 2004 .

[15]  P. L. Sankhayan,et al.  A dynamic bio-economic model for community management of goat and oak forests in Zagros, Iran , 2014 .