Annika Kangas, Jyrki Kangas, Mikko Kurttila

Decision Support for Forest Management (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The goal of Kangas, Kangas and Kurttila's Decision Support for Forest Management is to provide students and researchers with a toolbox of methods for approaching the different planning situations that may arise in practice. It draws together a wide range of methods used in planning forest management regimes and presents a systematic overview of current methodological approaches.

While earlier books concerning forest planning have tended to focus on linear programming, economic aspects, or specific multi-criteria decision aid tools, this book provides a much broader range of tools to meet a variety of planning situations. The methods themselves cover a range of decision situations - from cases involving single decision makers, through group decision making, to participatory planning. They include traditional decision support tools, from optimization to utility functions, as well as methods that are just gaining ground in forest planning - such as problem structuring methods and social choice theory.

Including examples which illustrate the application of each technique to specific management planning problems, the book offers an invaluable resource for both researchers and advanced students specializing in management and planning issues relating to forestry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402067877
• Artikelnr.: 43728955

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"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)