Abstract: Through the case study, three calculation methods of the index weight including AHP method, entropy weight method, entropy-AHP method, and two comprehensive evaluation models of the sustainable forest management including the linear weighted sum model, the weighted index model were compared and analyzed. The results prove that the entropy AHP method is an objective and scientific method which integrates the expert decision and the data information decision into one to evaluate the index weight, and the weighted index model is a reasonable comprehensive evaluation model which takes into account the multi-target operation and the coordinated development requirements of the forests and the results are close to the reality of the forest management. So, the weighted index model based on entropy-AHP is a feasible, comprehensive evaluation method of the sustainable forest management.

Key words: sustainable management, comprehensive evaluation method, entropy-AHP, the weighted index model