| Foresters’ classification is helpful to understanding their nature behavior. It is of important meaning
to master the nature and difference of production and business decision of foresters’ underwood planting, which
could further sort decision-making mechanism of forests’ behavior, improve the efficiency of rural public policy and
promote the supply-side structural reform of underwood planting products. Combining the results of literature review
on the classification of householders’ type and based on multi-objective production behavior under different demand
preferences, this paper classified the types of foresters. It measured and described the multi-objective behavior of
foresters from four dimensions—profit maximization, labor input minimization, risk aversion and self-social value
realization. Then it classified the foresters into three types—survival pressure, profit-seeking and social value balance
by way of clustering analysis method. At last, it summarized the characteristics of all kinds of foresters. |
