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SOCIO-7: Forests and the Quality of Life

1 Key Findings

2 Introduction

2.1 Quality of life indicators

2.2 Component indicators

2.3 Indicators relevant to forested areas: economic indicators

2.4 Indicators relevant to forested areas: demographic and social indicators

2.5 relevant to forested areas: forest amenities

3 Methods

3.1 3.1 Defining "forest dependence"

3.2 3.2 Linking forest dependence with other indicators

3.3 3.3 Forest related sectors

3.4 3.4 Linking forest dependence and economic structure

3.5 3.5 Specific indicators used in the analysis

4 Data Sources

5 Results

5.1 Linkages between forest dependency and forest condition

5.2 Linkages between forest dependency and social, economic and demographic indicators

5.3 Linkages between forest dependency and economic structure

6 Discussion and Conclusions

7 Needs for Additional Research

8 Acknowledgments

9 Literature Cited

10 Tables and Figures

Table 1--Correlation coefficients relating employment concentration in forest related sectors with indicators of forest condition

Table 2--Correlation coefficients relating employment concentration in forest related sectors with social, economic and demographic indicators

Table 3--Correlation coefficients relating employment concentration in forest related sectors to employment concentration in other economic sectors

Table 4--Comparison of income per job in forest related sectors and "typical" jobs