Environmental and Social Sustainability: The role of Forest as the most influential ecosystem

Abstract

There are many environmentally essential issues having close relationships with forest existence. Forests which are very crucial to balance the short-term requirements of today's human needs, to anticipate the necessities of the next generations, as well as to preserve long-term ecosystem situations and functions to support other living creatures, are therefore very vital to be well maintained. The best operative way to fulfill these requirements is to practice the forest ecosystem management paradigm as the template. In an ecosystem where the green plants are dominant or inhabit the greater proportion of occupancy, more energy and biological cycling useful for other living creatures will be available. Forest ecosystem which is dominated by big and long-standing trees influence the most to the environment compare to other types of ecosystems. For the complete sustainability problematic to be resolved, the Three Pillars of Sustainability must be viable and environmental sustainability need to be the top priority. All of these require careful thoughts, tradeoffs and compromises and often need sacrificing to some extent so that other needs can be pursued.