Mercedes Aguilar Castaneda
, C. Jose Antonio Bravo Iglesias
, Jose Angel Chang Porto
, Kellys Cecilia Naranjo Acosta
Mercedes Aguilar Castaneda 1
C. Jose Antonio Bravo Iglesias 2
Jose Angel Chang Porto 3
Kellys Cecilia Naranjo Acosta 4
- Specialist in Forestry, Sub Director of Research and Postgraduate, Municipal University Center Palma Soriano, Universidad de Oriente. Santiago de Cuba 1
- Institute of Agroforestry research. Ministry of the Agriculture. La Habana. Cuba 2
- Master in Forestry Sciences. Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Agronomy. Department of Agronomy. Universidad de Oriente 3
- English Language Instructor, Municipal University Center Palma Soriano, Universidad de Oriente 4
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The monitoring of the criteria and indicators carried out in Cuba to a municipal level and management areas are limited to a valuation according to the established methodology, making an inadequate evaluation of the same ones, what does not allow to obtain results on scientific bases that guarantee a correct valuation to define if the Forest Management is sustainable. This work carries out an evaluation of the criteria and indicators in the municipality "Palma Soriano" Santiago de Cuba province. The indicators were valued by means of a scale that allows judging their behavior using the approved and implemented methodology in Cuba. With these valuations there were carried out the graphs of sustainability, as tools to evaluate the performance of the criteria and indicators during 10 years. It concludes that the evaluation of the acting for each criteria was of " weak", "Excellent", "Extremely weak", "Weak" and "Favorable", for the criteria Forest Covering, Health and vitality of the Forest Ecosystems, Contribution of the Forest Ecosystems to the environmental Services, Productive functions of the Forest Ecosystems and Multiple Socio-economic benefits to cover the necessities of the society respectively.
Sustainability criteria, Forest management, Graphs of sustainability.