Dynamic model for the assessment of the forest management efficiency taking into account the development of the transport network

Abstract

The main objective of the article is to develop a mathematical model for assessing the environmental and economic effectiveness of forest management taking into account the planning of the transport network on the territory of the forest fund. The objective is set due to the fact that, despite the relevance of the problem of ensuring the effective environmental, socio-economic development of the territories of the forest fund and the existing scientific achievements in this area, both in Russia and abroad, a small amount of research has so far been accumulated in the scientific environment, which considers forest transport systems as one of the main factors that, in modern conditions of management, contributes to the achievement of the goal of sustainable development of forest areas. A comprehensive consideration of the problem of environmental and economic efficiency of planning a transport network on the territory of the forest fund is only indirectly present in the scientific literature and is local in nature. The presented article proposes an approach according to which a quantitative criterion for assessing the effectiveness of forest management is formed as achieving the maximum of all potential income from the use of various types of forest resources and the ecological potential of the territory taking into account the factor of the level of development of the transport network. This approach allows to strike an optimal balance between the economic and environmental indicators of the project for the creation and development of a transport network on the basis of the criterion of integrated environmental and economic efficiency. When solving the problems set forth in the article, methods and means of economic analysis, financial mathematics, economic and mathematical modeling, and analytical geometry have been used. © 2021 Author(s).