Decision Support for Forest Management [Hardcover]

This updated and expanded second edition adds the most recent advances in participatory planning approaches and methods, giving special emphasis to decision support tools usable under uncertainty. The new edition places emphasis on the selection of criteria and creating alternatives in practical multi-criteria decision making problems.1. Planning and Decision Support.- 2. Forest Management Planning.- 3. Single-Criteria Problems.- 4. Multi-Criteria Decision Problems.- 5. Uncertainty in Multi-Criteria Decision Making.- 6. Linear Programming and its Extensions in Forest Planning.- 7. Heuristic Optimisation.- 8. Uncertainty in Optimisation.- 9. Participatory Planning and Group Decision Making.- 10. Voting Methods.- 11. Participatory Planning Processes in Action.- 12. Behavioral Aspects.- 13. Final Remarks.This book is based on the research, lectures and real-life experiences of authors who all originate from Finland. &  This book presents the advances and progress in the use of OR in forestry management over the last forty to fifty years. The substantial growth in the range of techniques, methods and approaches extensively shown through examples in the book Decision Support for Forest Management, should put forest managers and decision makers well equipped to face this challenge. (Hans W. Ittmann, IFORS News, Vol. 11 (1), March, 2017)

This book offers a thorough review and explanation of decision support methods and tools, and shows how these are best applied to a wide range of situations in the practice of sustainable forest management. The goal is to provide both students and working forest managers a toolbox of methods covering most of the decision situations encountered in practice.

 

The first chapter introduces basic concepts of planning, decision making and decision support. Chapter Two explores forest management as a planning problem, including definitions of sustainability, the lÃÉ