The Future of Forestry : Non-Wood Forest Products and Services Regarding Social, Economics and Politics Aspects, Gökhan Şen,Ersin Güngör, Editör, Sonçağ Publishing, Ankara, ss.35-56, 2020
This study to identify the attitudes of the forest
managers at the regional managers’ level towards the problems related to
processes such as production, socio-economic conditions, and sales,
organizational and legal processes concerning. The study site is İstanbul
constitutes nearly 21 % of the country’s population and has an important
potential when the internal market and labor force are considered. Regional
Directorate of Forestry of İstanbul covers a large responsibility area is
another criterion to be preferred to study on. Within the scope of the study, a
questionnaire study was applied, and it was handled in two stages in the
evaluation. The first part includes the questions that inquire information
about the characteristics of the questionnaire participants such as information
about the sub-district directorate, the length of service, age, gender, and
educational information. The second part defines 5 different dimensions about
production. In the study, t-test was used to determine the difference between
groups, reliability analysis for data reliability, one-way MANOVA tests were
used to determine attitude. According to the results of the survey, forest
managers show that they have positive attitudes towards the development of ODOU
production in their regions, but they are broadly concerned about the legal,
administrative and technical adverse effects of production, especially
contributing to the livelihood of the public. Responses perceived negativities
generally show uniformity regarding the production process within the
environmental, legal and managerial framework.