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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES-TARIM BILIMLERI DERGISI, vol.15, no.2, pp.173-180, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
Mountainous areas are the ecosystems which are ecologically sensitive and needed to be protected for their resource values. In this concept, management planning process for mountainous ecosystems has been studied in this research on the case of Cimen Mountain, Kahramanmaras. First of all, natural, socioeconomic and cultural structures were identified and assessed by ecological assessment method in Geographical Information Systems environment. General Village Information Form was used for gathering the socio-economic and cultural data and these data has guided the management planning process. According to the evaluation results it is concluded that Cimen Mountain is a system that has to be protected with its resource values. Local community is poor and living directly depended to the natural resources. It is concluded that this results serious degradation on natural resources. According to these results, in the concept of wise use approach, ideal objective of Cimen Mountain Management Plan was identified as; "to develop mechanisms that will provide wise use of Cimen Mountain ecosystem resources". In order to make the ideal objective achievable, short term objectives were identified according to the opportunities and constraints. As a result, in the framework of short term objectives and proposed land use, an organization model aiming to provide the efficiency of Cimen Mountain Management Plan was established.