A multi-objective scenario evaluation model for sustainable forest management using criteria and indicators

Maness, Thomas C.; Farrell, Ross R.

doi:10.1139/x04-075

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“…The participation of stakeholders was uncommon in the optimization and CBA case studies. Stakeholder participation is nevertheless possible with the optimization approaches, for instance when the preferences of the general public are included in the valuations and expert views are used to assess targets and thresholds [141]. The results imply that more attention should be paid to the participation of stakeholders if optimization is to be used in planning the sustainable management of natural resources.…”

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Decision Support in Assessing the Sustainable Use of Forests and Other Natural Resources - A Comparative Review

Myllyviita¹,

Hujala²,

Kangas³

et al. 2011

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Various decision support methods are used to support the sustainable use of natural resources, but there is little evidence about these methods' actual performances. In this study, 35 carefully selected papers assessing the sustainable use of natural resources were evaluated. The evaluated papers utilized one of the following methods: optimization, costbenefit analysis (CBA) and monetary valuation methods, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) or hybrid approaches. Each method supported sustainability in a different manner. Optimization and CBA case studies rarely involved stakeholders and social sustainability was less processed. Monetary valuation case studies showed a regular participation of the general public, but in a passive role. Experts and stakeholders with an active role were typical participants in MCDA and hybrid case studies. Internationally and nationally defined indicators of sustainability were scarcely used because indicators were frequently defined by stakeholders or the authors of the studied papers. It was presumed that international and national indicators were unsuitable for local use. Sustainability indicators typically took both the quantitative and qualitative form, including gaps and uncertainties. MCDA could be a suitable method for assessing sustainability because it has no strict requirements on the form of the data, and the participation of stakeholders is comprehensive. For the problem structuring phase, however, MCDA might not provide efficient tools. The ideal method for assessing the sustainable use of natural resources could be a hybrid of two methods with different approaches: qualitative methods could be used in the problem structuring process, whereas quantitative methods could be used when priorities and thresholds are assessed.

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Decision Support in Assessing the Sustainable Use of Forests and Other Natural Resources - A Comparative Review

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Hujala²,

Kangas³

et al. 2011

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“…Examples of works in these fields include: timber harvest scheduling in a fuzzy decision environment (Bare and Mendoza 1992), fuzzy goal programming in forestry (Pickens and Hof 1991), a multi-objective evaluation model for sustainable forest management using criteria and indicators (Maness and Farrell 2004) and fuzzy methods for assessing criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management (Mendoza and Prabhu 2004).…”

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“…The decision-maker's goal can be to find a schema which maximizes minimum grade of membership 6 ; this has been seen before in Maness and Farrell (2004) whereby a multi-objective optimization model was created for forest development planning for an integrated forest products company located in the East Kootenay area of British Columbia, Canada. The mathematical model uses a fuzzy MAXMIN approach, where each indicator represents an objective in the model.…”

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“…(For a practical example of the approach see, for example, Maness and Farrell 2004). The approach in the current hypothetical example makes use of the CCFM C&I of SFM and three alternative forest management schemes in which the membership values for each criterion can be obtained based on the performance of each alternative scheme with respect to C&I.…”

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Possibility schema for interdisciplinary forest management evaluation and decision-making

Kijazi¹

2005

The Forestry Chronicle

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Interdisciplinary planning and evaluation of forest management is necessary for sustainable forest management (SFM) schemes involving multiple values of multi-stakeholders. Often, multi-objective forest-planning and evaluation encounter complexity and uncertainty due to "inexactness"— i.e., fuzziness, ambiguity, imprecision and variability — of spatial behaviours of ecological and human systems. This paper develops the possibility schema — from fuzzy sets and theory of possibility — for representation and evaluation of inexact spatial concepts, configurations, and processes, associated with forest ecosystem and stakeholder values. A hypothetical case of interdisciplinary research utilizing criteria and indicators of SFM is used to illustrate the utility of the proposed possibility schema in interdisciplinary forest decision-making. The schema can be used for ex-ante appraisal and ex-post evaluation of forest programs. It can also be used for integration of interdisciplinary forest knowledge, including ecological and socio-economic models of SFM. Key words: decision-making, fuzzy sets, inexactness, interdisciplinary evaluation, multiple values, possibility theory, sustainable forest management, uncertainty

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“…Fertilization can increase forest biomass, but in allowable offset standards such as the Voluntary Carbon Standard, accounting must include total project emissions, including life-cycle emissions from synthetic fertilizer production and use, which lowers the net GHG benefit (Galik and Jackson 2009), potentially discouraging fertilization as a management strategy to increase C storage. Understanding the complexity of the impacts of forest management decisions is increasingly dependent on methods such as multi-objective optimization models (e.g., Maness and Farrell 2004).…”

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Forest carbon management and carbon trading: A review of Canadian forest options for climate change mitigation

GoldenDenise¹,

ColomboStephen²

2011

The Forestry Chronicle

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Forests have significant potential to mitigate climate change. Canada has 30% of the world's boreal forests. The ratification of the Kyoto Protocol commoditized carbon (C) on an international scale. To achieve Canada's emission reduction targets and mitigate climate change, the potential of forest C offset projects and forest C trading is being evaluated. Carbon trading and forest C management have economic and policy implications and potential trade-offs in other forest management objectives. We discuss how forest C management and trading can contribute to global efforts for atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions reduction through either utilization and/or conservation strategies.Key words: Canada, boreal forest, carbon management, carbon trading, climate change mitigation, forest carbon, forest conservation, forest management RÉSUMÉLes forêts sont tout à fait capables d'atténuer les changements climatiques. Le Canada détient 30% des forêts boréales de la planète. La ratification du Protocole de Kyoto a transformé le carbone (C) en un produit de base se transigeant partout dans le monde. Le potentiel des projets de crédits de C forestier et d' échange de C forestier destinés à permettre au Canada d'atteindre ses objectifs de réduction des émissions et d'atténuation des changements climatiques, fait l' objet d'une évalua-tion. Les échanges de C et la gestion du C forestier entraînent des répercussions économiques et politiques ainsi que des interactions potentielles avec d'autres objectifs d'aménagement forestier. Nous discutons comment la gestion du C forestier et ses échanges peuvent contribuer aux efforts globaux de réduction des gaz à effet de serre dans l'atmosphère en fonction de stratégies d'utilisation ou de conservation. Canada-wide, the forestland component of the LULUCF sector was a net sink of 77.5 Mt in 1990 (forest LULUCF removals greater than forest LULUCF emissions) but a source during 2002 to 2007 (emissions greater than removals). The recent trend of forests in the LULUCF sector being a source is due to natural disturbances, accentuated in recent years by the large-scale mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) outbreak in British Columbia and Alberta (Kurz et al. 2008), but also attributable to forest fires and wood removed from forests by harvest.The inclusion of removals by the LULUCF sector recognizes that biological C sinks store C absorbed by plants and that human activity (i.e., forestry and agriculture practices) can affect the size of these sinks. However, while the KP recognises the importance of forests as C sinks (Binkley et al. 2002), the potential to claim forests as a climate change mitigation measure, instead of efforts for reductions at emission sources (e.g., coal-fired electricity generation), was so contentious that comprehensive forestry-based mitigation activities were capped and limited in the early stages of KP negotiations (Purdon 2009). In addition, default KP accounting rules treat C in harvested wood as being completely released into the atmospher...

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A multi-objective scenario evaluation model for sustainable forest management using criteria and indicators

Cited by 39 publications

References 19 publications

Decision Support in Assessing the Sustainable Use of Forests and Other Natural Resources - A Comparative Review

Decision Support in Assessing the Sustainable Use of Forests and Other Natural Resources - A Comparative Review

Possibility schema for interdisciplinary forest management evaluation and decision-making

Forest carbon management and carbon trading: A review of Canadian forest options for climate change mitigation

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