SOCIOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FUELWOOD USE IN A RURAL AREA OF TURKEY

The present article is based on the socio-economic analysis of fuelwoo d use in 70 villages in Trabzon, Turkey. Energy requirements of the 70 villages studied are subsidized considerably by the surrounding fores t in the form of firewood. It was noticed that the amount of fuelwood consumption in the 70 villages was 171 371 m(3) in 1990. The total amo unt of fuelwood per house provided by the forest enterprise was 12 212 m(3) in the same year and, therefore, the amount of illegal fuelwood consumption was 159 160 m(3) This study showed that the amount of fuel wood provided by the forest enterprise for each house in the villages was only 7% of the amount of fuelwood the villages used up. Finally, t he economic, social, cultural, legal, technical, managerial and psycho logical reasons for the illegal fuelwood consumption fi om the State F orests have been studied and necessary and appropriate solutions have been proposed.