Abstract:

Forest social benefit evaluation has enjoyed great popularity among researchers at home and abroad for quite a long time, but quantitative analysis is still far away from adequacy. The index, methods and results of the forest social benefit evaluation in this paper will be reference for the staff working in the frontiers to do similar evaluations and will provide theoretical basis for the improvement of the forest resource management in China.The research result indicated: the total revenue of social benefit generated by forest in Jiangxi Province was 28.008 billion RMB which in turn could be grouped into: forest tourism revenue closely related with the perimeter zones was 12.272 billion RMB, employment revenue was 9.2 billion RMB, revenue of shaking off poverty was 2.864 billion RMB, and science & culture value was 3.672 billion RMB.Taking the forest materials of Jiangxi Province as the subject which was collected through the first hand materials of survey and second hand materials of documents retrieval, and based on the analysis of the connotation of forest social benefit, this paper has classified the Jiangxi forest social benefit by means of examining documents and consulting related specialists. The quantitative analysis of forest social benefit was carried out by employing the following methods: travelling expenditure method, CVM, market value method and HR cost method.

Key words: Jiangxi Province, forest social benefit, accounting method