Forest Valuation

Forest produce variety of products.Thus, forest have value to people and contribute to meeting human needs.
The contributions might be :

• direct use of forest,
• indirect use of forest,
• the existence of forest or of options for it's  direct or indirect use in future.

The direct use of forest vary from individual and from groups to group. Likewise, the indirect use can be changed over time as individual situation and perception.The direct use value can be consumptive use ( eg. fuel, timber, medicine, fruits,etc) and non-consumptive use ( eg. trekking, photography,etc).The indirect use  value can be related with soil protection, watershed protection,carbon storage, habitat and protection of biodiversity,etc.