Analysis of the Distribution of Forest Management Areas by the Forest Environmental Tax in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Table 2

Forest area and population of the Noto and Kanazawa-Kaga-Hakusan region.

	Main financial resource	Operating entity	Main aims	Obligation to make management plan	Necessity to make agreement with local governments
Forest management mainly with the forest environmental tax	Fund of forest environmental tax	Prefecture, municipality, forest cooperative & NPO	Conservation of multiple functions of forests & management of disadvantaged forests	—	○
Forest environment conservation operation	Subsidies from central government, Forestry Agency	Prefecture, municipality, forest cooperative, NPO, forest owner & contractor of management	Conservation of multiple functions of forest & cost reduction of forestry	○	—