Adaptive Design of Forested Landscapes

Gadow, Klaus von; Nuutinen, Tuula; Kellomäki, Seppo

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6759-4_1

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“…Standardised forests reduce biodiversity and cannot be adapted to fit new policy challenges (Gadow et al, 2008). The DSS developed allows an integrated view of the forest and provides guidelines for forest management based on efficient and non-dominate solutions, which can promote diversity and a flexible allocation of resources.…”

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confidence: 99%

An integrated decision support system for the Mediterranean forests

2019

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Mediterranean forests contain a relevant biological diversity and are relevant for local economy. However, they are subject to various risks, particularly the risk of forest fires. This turns the critical decisions of forest managers, affecting both the long-term future of the forest and daily activities, to be difficult. To simulate decisions, and help managers and policy makers, a decision support system, which integrates the biological, environmental and economic management perspectives of agricultural and forest areas, was developed and considers the activities existing in the territory. The decision support system considers the characteristics of the biophysical units that comprise the territorial study area, production technologies and conservation of agro-forestry goods and preferences of managers or stakeholders. The proposed approach was applied in a pilot Forest Intervention Zone (FIZ) located within the Algarve region inner land. The results show that the decision support system proposed is an important tool for managing the territory and for implementing the manager's decisions.

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confidence: 99%

An integrated decision support system for the Mediterranean forests

2019

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“…More of the harvestable value could have been removed, and concern for disturbances might have been downgraded. A similar short-sighted attitude has been common across the world [3]. Instead of setting management goals for commodity production, a strategy to deal with changing social preferences and historic events could have been wiser [34].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Medieval kings imposed policies about the rate of harvest in crown forests, along with other measures that formalized previous traditions such as old Roman rights concerning harvesting firewood and other forest products. Reliability of the timber and fuelwood supply were the stated motives that drove forest policies in Europe from the 9th to 20th centuries [2,3]. These priorities superseded the importance of other products and services such as medicinal plants, hunting, grazing, etc.…”

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Harvest Regulation for Multi-Resource Management, Old and New Approaches (Old and New)

Mendoza

Fajardo

Curiel³

et al. 2015

Forests

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Current Mexican forest management is the product of a history that dates back to 1926. Earlier approaches were directly or indirectly aimed at attaining the normal forest model. Around 1980, multi-resource and environmental impact considerations were mandated for all private timber operations. Timber-oriented silviculture was deemed insufficient to take proper care of non-timber values in the forest. Concerns about water quality, biodiversity, and natural conservation were the motives for promoting voluntary best OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 671 management practices, in 2012 and afterwards. In this research, two traditional Mexican forest management schemes, Sicodesi and Plan Costa, enhanced with best management practices, are compared to Mapa, a management method specifically designed to manage landscape attributes. Results from two successive forest inventories 10 and 13 years apart show that Sicodesi and Plan Costa, even when modified to comply with best management practices, failed to maintain proper stewardship of non-timber values. Mapa, however, employed multiple means to drive forest dynamics to fulfill multi-resource objectives, constrained by self-financing and competitive profitability. These capabilities in Mapa enabled some degree of control over non-timber values, but many more important processes occur beyond the property boundary, and beyond the planning scope considered in Mapa and all other forest planning methods.

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“…For example, "near-natural" forest management, favoring mixed stands of site-adapted tree species and selective harvesting, has become a dominant type of forest management in Europe (Butter, 1998;Detten et al, 2009;Pommerening, 2001;Röhe, 2003). Selective harvesting, also known as "Continuous cover" or "near-natural" forest management (Gadow et al, 2008) is being practiced in many parts of the world, albeit on a smaller scale than evenaged forest management (see, for example, Guldin, 2002;Muchiri et al, 2002;Seydack et al, 1995;Trasobares and Pukkala, 2005).…”

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Application of the generalized Faustmann model to uneven-aged forest management

Chang¹,

Gadow²

2010

JFE

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JEL classification: Q230 Q570Keywords: Generalized Faustmann model Continuous cover forest Uneven-aged management Loblolly-shortleaf pine forest Comparative static analysis Sensitivity analysis a b s t r a c t In this paper, a generalized Faustmann model is developed for uneven-aged management to allow the number of years and the level of residual growing stock to vary from one cutting cycle to the next. Comparative static analyses are conducted to determine the effect of changes in interest rate, stumpage price of the trees selected for harvest, the stumpage value of the residual growing stock, and the future land value on the decision variables. The model is then applied to study the uneven-aged management of a loblolly-shortleaf pine stand in south central U.S. to determine the length of the cutting cycle and the level of residual growing stock for the first cutting cycle as well as for a case involving four cutting cycles. Sensitivity analyses reveal that for the uneven-aged loblolly-shortleaf pine stand both the length of the cutting cycle and the level of the residual growing stock are very sensitive to changes in land value in the future, in the stumpage prices of trees selected for harvest, in the stumpage prices of the residual growing stock, and in the interest rate.

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Adaptive Design of Forested Landscapes

Cited by 4 publications

References 67 publications

An integrated decision support system for the Mediterranean forests

An integrated decision support system for the Mediterranean forests

Harvest Regulation for Multi-Resource Management, Old and New Approaches (Old and New)

Application of the generalized Faustmann model to uneven-aged forest management

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