Ecological Evaluation of the Sustainability of City Forests

The Košutnjak forest in the city of Belgrade, Serbia, with an area 259 ha, provides ecological and social benefits to its inhabitants, but composition has changed last 20 years: areas have decreased, people become irresponsible towards soil, degradation is evident. question whether potential regenerate survive. horizontal assessment attributes was carried out using data from official database administrative unit “Košutnjak (2007–2016)”, which, conjunction basic forest, defines indicators change, stability, self-renewal, which assume sustainability can be a useful tool for sustainable management. are processed on three-level alphanumeric scale Microsoft Excel, collected analyzed mapped ArcGis 9.3. ability forests survive without human intervention evaluated EEFS method sustainability, used first time this study. results showed that change significant, stability medium, self-renewal low most sections, so rated as unlikely. provided form basis management strategy platform long-term monitoring condition.