The use of Analytical Network Process (ANP) Approach to Assess the Health of Natural Production Forest

Abstract

The need of the sustainable forest management has become the world most demand in a recent to face the climate change issue. Monitoring the health of forest thus should be done properly as one of indicators for achieving sustainable forest management. Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) is one of the methods applied to monitor the status, change and trends of forest health condition by using the ecological indicators. Here, we re-introduce the used of Analytical Networking Process (ANP) approach to scoring the health condition of natural production forest. We weighted the-four ecological indicators of Forest Health Monitoring (FHM), e.g. forest productivity in term of quality and quantity, forest health and vitality (tree-damage and crown condition), site quality, and biodiversity. Final score of forest health is obtained by combining indicator weights and relative score of each indicator. This work has been published in 2008, but reintroducing the method is taking a high importance as it needed for better developing the health assessment for different forest type and function.