New Issues in Forest Land Management from an Operations Research Perspective

Weintraub, Andrés; Bare, B. Bruce

doi:10.1287/inte.26.5.9

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“…Gong 1994;Weintraub and Bare 1996;Pukkala and Miina 1997;Vettenranta and Miina 1999;Buongiorno 2001;Chang 2005;Zhou et al 2008). However, social and environmental services of forest ecosystems are becoming more and more important in forest management and must therefore be integrated into forest modelling procedures.…”

Section: Impacts In Focus Of Risk Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

Yousefpour

Jacobsen

Thorsen

et al. 2011

Annals of Forest Science

183

141

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Abstract• Context This review paper provides an overview of approaches to which we may resort for handling the complex decision problems involving uncertainty and risk that climate change implies for forest managers. Modelling approaches that could support adaptive management strategies seem to be called for, not only as climate change denotes increased economic uncertainty but also because new and more reliable information becomes available as time passes and climate changes.• Aims The paper (1) provides a broad overview of state-ofthe-art methods for optimal decision making under risk and uncertainty in forestry and (2) elaborates on the possible use of these methods in adaptive forest management under climate change.

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Section: Impacts In Focus Of Risk Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

Yousefpour

Jacobsen

Thorsen

et al. 2011

Annals of Forest Science

183

141

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“…Starting from the basis that, in the literature, different optimization methods have frequently been used to address different forest management problems (Weintraub and Bare, 1996;Kaya et al, 2016;Yoshimoto et al, 2016), the temporal aspect of applying these techniques in industrial forest plantations was analyzed. When considering different planning times, the classic definitions of strategic, tactical and operational levels were taken into account (McDill, 2014;Borges et al, 2014b), bearing in mind that they are usually organized hierarchically (Banhara et al, 2010).…”

Section: Planning Levels: Strategic Tactical and Operationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, the purpose of this paper was to not only undertake a survey of the use of a particular optimization method, but to also furnish the debate with arguments in order to help researchers and managers arrive at a more sensible use of these methods in the forest plantation field. Although there are several surveys on the application of these techniques in the broad field of forest management (e.g., Weintraub and Bare, 1996;Diaz-Balteiro and Romero, 2008;Uhde et al, 2015), to our knowledge, there are none specifically focused on this type of forest system. The same can be said in a contrary manner: reviews of forest plantations usually ignore the use of mathematical optimization approaches (Brockerhoff et al, 2008;Paquette and Messier, 2010;Pawson et al, 2013 …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A critical survey of optimization methods in industrial forest plantations management

Belavenutti

Romero

Dı́az-Balteiro

2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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ABSTRACT:The application of optimization methods to forest management has given rise to a successful line of investigation in recent decades. However, there have been few publications associated with the application of these techniques to the management of industrial forest plantations (those with short or medium rotations, always less than 50 years), which consider the important role played by these forest systems in the supply of diverse goods and services.This study presents an overview of this literature which, by analyzing 67 articles published in journals contained in the ISI Web of Science, highlight, among other aspects, the techniques employed, their evolution, their planning type (strategic, tactical or operational), the functional objectives and constraints considered, or the type of software deployed in these studies. The results show how Model I has been the one most frequently used in these studies, and how the spatial component is increasing in importance. However, classic optimization methods, such as mixed integer programming, have been those most commonly resorted to, although the employment of multi-criteria techniques such as goal programming and analytic hierarchical process have strongly emerged in recent years.

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“…Operational planning states when and how the operations are performed [14]. The use of Operations Research (OR) techniques in these planning levels has frequently been described for several decades [12,15,16].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational Research Techniques Used for Addressing Biodiversity Objectives into Forest Management: An Overview

Ezquerro

Pardos²,

Dı́az-Balteiro

2016

Forests

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Abstract:The integration of biodiversity into forest management has traditionally been a challenge for many researchers and practitioners. In this paper, we have provided a survey of forest management papers that use different Operations Research (OR) methods in order to integrate biodiversity objectives into their planning models. One hundred and seventy-nine references appearing in the ISI Web of Science database in the last 30 years have been categorized and evaluated according to different attributes like model components, forest management elements, or biodiversity issues. The results show that many OR methods have been applied to deal with this challenging objective. Thus, up to 18 OR techniques, divided into four large groups, which have been employed in four or more articles, have been identified. However, it has been observed how the evolution of these papers in time apparently tended to increase only until 2008. Finally, two clear trends in this set of papers should be highlighted: the incorporation of spatial analysis tools into these operational research models and, second, the setting up of hybrid models, which combine different techniques to solve this type of problem.

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New Issues in Forest Land Management from an Operations Research Perspective

Cited by 48 publications

References 42 publications

A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

A critical survey of optimization methods in industrial forest plantations management

Operational Research Techniques Used for Addressing Biodiversity Objectives into Forest Management: An Overview

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