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Forest land provides several environmental services and goods with significant implications
for different socioeconomic and environmental dimensions. Forestry and its management are
determinant activities for sustainable development, specifically in the current context of urgent
mitigation of climate change. In this perspective, one objective of this research was to survey the main
insights from the literature about the forest and management dimensions put together, highlighting
the contributions of these activities to mitigate climate change. Another objective was to explore
indicators related to forest management (land, employment, output, and net emissions) in order to
obtain a forest sustainability index through factor analysis. As main insights from this study, we
can quote that the literature survey pinpoints the most relevant factors framing forest management:
soil characteristics, ecology, ecosystems, biodiversity, deforestation, climate change, socioeconomic
frameworks, local knowledge, public policies, institutional context, and new technologies. Forest
indicators reveal a strong relationship between forest land, employment and output, and a weaker
relation with net emissions. We concluded that there is a need for stakeholders to explore and
improve the interlinkage with climate change impact, specifically with regard to improving the
relationships of forestry greenhouse gas emissions impacts with forest size and output.
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European Union Forest indicators Factor analysis Forest sustainability index
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MDPI