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The origin, development and propspect of Non-timber Forest-based Economics

CHEN Xingliang()   

  1. Chinese Academy of Forestry, Chinese Forestry Society, Beijing 100091, China
  • Received:2022-10-19 Revised:2022-11-02 Online:2022-11-30 Published:2022-11-24

Abstract:

The theory and technology of “Non-timber Forest-based Economics” are developed in the bachround of to deepening of the international community’s understanding of the key role of forests in the global sustainable development, especially the multi-functional role of forests, the protection of biodiversity, the maintenance of water and land resources, and the provision of a variety of wood and non-wood forest products, as well as the development of forest ecological economy, the promotion of sustainable forest management and the deepening of multi-functional forest construction.It conforms to the trend of the development of forest-related interdisciplinary frontiers in the world.“Non-timber Forest-based Economics”, focuses on the complete and modern concept of forest resources, takes the forest eco-economic system as the research object, takes the output of non-timber forest products and forest ecological products as the goal, and takes multi-disciplinary integration theory and technology as the means to systematically study the characteristics and functions of underforest economic resources, together with the basic theory, basic methods and scientific and technological system formed by its ecological protection, cultivation, management and development and scientific and rational utilization. Research on the basic theory of “Non-timber Forest-based Economics”, comes from Ecology, Economics, Ecological Economics, Agriculture (Forestry) and other disciplines, and the main body is composed of under-forest economic resources, under-forest ecology, agroforestry management, under-forest economic industry management and so on.Based on the natural solutions and natural benefit-oriented economic growth, “Non-timber Forest-based Economics” in the future will focus on the protection, cultivation and intensive processing and utilization of undergrowth economic biological resources, the construction of structural optimization, functional coordination, healthy and stable forest ecosystem supply services, the optimization and adjustment of agroforestry complex system and the promotion of benefits. Efforts should be made to establish an industrial system with high efficiency, high yield, high quality and sustainability.This paper analyzes the background of the development of under-forest economics, summarizes the development status of under-forest economy, expounds the discipline connotation, characteristics, research object and discipline system focus of under-forest economics, and looks forward to the focus and breakthrough direction of underforest economy research.

Key words: Non-timber Forest-based Economics, discipline system, discipline development, discipline outlook

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