The Forestry Development Strategy is a key document for establishing the foundations of a unified and functional system for the management and sustainable development of forestry. During its implementation, numerous indicators of forest conditions are used in the preparation of forest area management plans (such as area, habitat, tree species composition, biodiversity, ecosystem services, structure, health status, volume, volume increment, quality, risk factors due to climate change, etc.). These indicators enable the monitoring of trends and forecasting of future changes, and are therefore used in the development of national forestry and other related policies. Changes in the indicators (both qualitative and quantitative) occur as a result of implementing guidelines and measures aimed at achieving strategic goals. Indicators also provide feedback information that can be used to develop operational forest management plans and can serve in planning the management of other resources, sectors, and activities related to forestry. Current issues such as environmental protection, climate change, biodiversity conservation, and renewable energy sources cannot be effectively addressed without monitoring indicators and management plans of a multifunctional character related to forestry. The application of various indicators depends on the size of the forest areas to which they refer, the method of presentation, and the indicator classification system. In the Forestry Development Strategy of the Republic of Srpska, over 50 indicators have been defined, aligned with the Pan-European Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management of the European Union, as covered by the MCPFE process.
Medarević et al. (2024) studied this question.