RELATIONSHIP OF FOREST VILLAGES AND FOREST INDUSTRY:

MEASUREMENT OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE YEARS

BETWEEN 2007 TO 2013

SUMMARY
Nowadays, with rapid population growth, unplanned urbanization and
industrialization are caused destruction of natural areas and damage to the rural
economy. With the spread of sustainability at global level, green economies have
gained importance. Thanks to green economies, forests and forest industries are at the
forefront in sustainable development.
Forests are natural resource which have structures directly interacting with the rural
also providing input to many sectors in terms of economic. In this study, it is aimed to
reveal the relation between forest villagers and forest industries. The social capital in
the rural has to be developed in order to improve the forest village. For this reason, the
variables were evaluated for both sectors and forest village in between 2007 to 2013.
In this study focused on: How have regional employment changes affected the region
in selected sectors at the reference years? How did the national employment change
affect the employment change in the region? Is there a relation between the selected
sectors and the forest village with economic way? According to the regional economic
performance measurements, the location selection of forest industry and its
relationship with forest villagers were evaluated.
The study consists of six sections. In the first part, the reasons why the study was
chosen, its purpose, its scope and its methodology are given. The study has been
handled with cause-effect relationships in the historical process.
In the second chapter, it was aimed to get an idea about the legal, institutional and
political structure of forests by explaining the situation about forests. Besides, spatial
and demographic data related to forestry is given. How many targets of development
plan about forestry policies have been applied since 1963? Unfortunately, the case of
the study shows that the targeted policies was behind the target in practice, although
there is strong relationship between forest products and many industries.
One of the target of study is, if the manufacturing industrial perspective changed, the

only quality of the forest area but also its quantity. For these reason, forestry situation
was handled not just the forest land but also the productivity, distribution of growing
stock and annual increment.
In the third chapter, forest villages and villagers are mentioned because of the rural
development understanding in the forest. Focused on the relationship between forest
and forest villagers, migration, incentives about forest villagers and
cooperatives. Between the reference years, number of Turkey forest villages and
village population increased but the forest village population in the total population
decreased. This situation reveals the problem of migration include the rural. Young
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people at working age have to migrate from forest villages because of the economic
condition. Policies have been developed for the development of forest villages, such
as loans to support various individual credits and cooperatives. However, these
policies are not enough for the development of forest villages.
In the fourth chapter, while referring the studies on forest and economic relations, the
importance of the forest industry has been mentioned about relation on the other
industrial branches. Foreign trade of selected forest industries is described in this
section. The forestry and the forest industries are the oldest branches of the economic
activity for this reason, they spread all over the country by the time. The forestry sector
has a potential for a sector that supports sustainable development and provides
ecological balance of ecosystems. Today, the sector provides income to the forest
villagers, the poorest part of Turkey, and stands out as a tool for the development of
forest villages. It is important to investigate agglomeration, cluster and connections in
the supply chain of the forest industry as can be seen from studies. With the
advancement of technology, selected sectors are separated. It is understood that sectors
choose places according to different production factors.
In the fifth chapter, selected regional analysis have been mentioned. Moreover, the
findings of the applied method and the spatial, demographic data were compared.
Within the framework of the method applied, in which regions the selected sectors are
agglomerated that have been interpreted taking into consideration the criteria of
industrial site selection.
Location quotient and shift-share analyses from the regional analysis tools were
selected to measure the sectoral concentration due to the location decision of the
industry. Location quotient and shift-share analyses results, give ideas that whether it
is a sector that grows with the change in the amount of employment. Employment data
for the forestry and forest products industries were used in SGK statistical year in 2007
and 2013. Forests are a renewable natural resources (which take a long time). The
sustainability of forests is significant for forest industry dependent on raw materials.
The location of the forest industry relationship with rural areas in the context of

economic performance measure is calculated taking into account the employment

changes in the four selected sectors.
Two different analyses of 2007 and 2013 for the selected four sectors were revealed.
The reason for the selection of the year 2013 from the reference years is a new
legislation affecting rural areas from this year. Law No. 6360 are created a breaking
point for rural areas. In the study, all sectors were evaluated individually and all
selected forest industries because these sectors take part of the all structure, and effect
each other. The status of NUTS
Findings revealed by two different analysis methods are related to the location

collected in seven groups. NUTS 3 regions collected in seven groups were evaluated
on the group characteristics according to sectors. Group characteristics were perused
with incentive areas and forest density of NUTS 3. Taking into account the many
benefits other than the economic benefits of forests, forest villagers should play an
active role regarding to forest activities.

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Forestry industries are influenced by factors such as raw materials and transportation.
Market and entrepreneurial factors are at the forefront when the process of accessing
final goods from the industrial sectors is prolonged. These factors are influenced by
railway transportation and port factor. In addition, it is thought that incentives play a
role in the development of these sectors especially in the 5th and 6th incentive zones,
although the raw material presence is low. It is of particular importance that incentives

As a result, in the last chapter, which is the sixth chapter where assessments for the
NUTS 3 regions. Policies and suggestions have been made for the sectors. Forest
rehabilitation activities, especially forestation, erosion control and energy forest,
should be carried out regularly and on a plan and project basis. Rural development
should be ensured with those living in the forest village using social capital in order to
improve the economic situation of the forest village. Forestry and logging and wood
and wood products which are directly related to forest villagers, should be
strengthened with regions that source of raw materials. Forest productivity should be
increased. The idle capacity in the sector should not be created by taking into account
the allowable cut values of the sector. It is necessary to improve the conditions of raw
material production by ensuring that the forest villagers participate in the process so
as to raise the socio-economic levels of the forest villagers. Economic investments in
the forest sector have to be initiatives that protect natural capital on the basis of
thresholds.
It is necessary to intensify the work of rehabilitation in areas where there is degraded
forest area. Railway and port-connected furniture and paper and paper products
industry should be strengthened in terms of transport links with high forest density.

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