Ghassan Jaqoub ⁽¹⁾, Osama Radwan ⁽²⁾, and Shahd Sheikh Al-Haddadin⁽³⁾*

(1). Department of Agricultural Economics, Tishreen University

(2). Department, of Forestry and Environment, Tishreen University

(3). Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Lattakia Agriculture Directorate, Latakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Shahd sheikh al haddadin. E-Mail: shahdshiekalhahadin@gmail.com).

Received:16/01/2023          Accepted: 29/03/2023

Abstract: 

This research was conducted during the years 2022 – 2023 in the fire-damaged forest that occurred in the village of Resion on 9-10 2020 in the Al-Haffa region – Lattakia Governorate, where the research aimed to study the effects resulting from the fire and its social effects on the surrounding villages. A questionnaire that was designed that included axes was to study the most important reasons that affected the surrounding site community of the fire and the factors that would mitigate fires or may affect other fires in the same area. The descriptive analytical method was adopted to calculate averages, frequencies axes percentages the field survey method. And the use of the SPSS statistical analysis program to calculate the studied correlations, the use of the binary Likert scale, the chi-square test, the phi coefficient, and the use of appropriate economic analysis indicators for the purpose. The results of the analysis of the questionnaire showed that the forest constitutes an important resource and source of livelihood for the residents of the surrounding villages and others, and the protection of forests from the harm they are exposed to from visitors depends on the continuity of population stability in them, and there is a relation between the citizen’s gender, their jobs the level, and their participation in firefighting,and there is no relation between the level of education and participation in firefighting.

Keywords: forests, fires, forest resources, forest laws, Lattakia Governorate

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