scholarly journals Re-evaluating our approach to forest management planning: A complex journey

2005 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Hélène Mathey ◽  
Emina Krcmar ◽  
Ilan Vertinsky
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Decision Support Tools ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
Forest Values

The evolution of forest values from timber supply to ecological and social values has been leading to the redefinition of the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) paradigm. In parallel, scientific knowledge is expanding and uncovering the interconnectedness of the various processes that support these values. We thus have many wishes and much knowledge but we have to ensure that we have the decision support tools that will pull them together to promote SFM. After a broad review of the evolution of decision support tools in forest management, this paper presents a case for more holistic numerical planning tools. To illustrate that such tools can be designed, we propose a simple decentralized approach. In this approach, a landscape management strategy evolves based on local decisions, integrating spatial and aspatial, multi-period and period-specific goals. Such tools could become a useful platform for sustainable forest management planning. Key words: decision support tools, sustainable forest management, evolution, holistic planning, complexity, cellular automata

scholarly journals Personal and group forest values and perceptions of groups' forest values in northwestern Ontario

2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Lee ◽  
Shashi Kant
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Forest Values

With the recent involvement of a greater diversity of groups working in forest management planning, the identification and understanding of people's forest values and their perceptions of one another's values may be a promising approach to sustainable forest management. This study identifies and analyzes the forest values and perceptions of the members of four groups, Aboriginal People, Environmental Non-Government Organizations (ENGOs), the forest industry, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), in northwestern Ontario. Conceptual Content Cognitive Mapping (3CM) was used to identify people's forest values and perceptions and dominant forest value themes were created using hierarchical clustering. Inter-group and intra-group similarities and differences among the rankings of participants' forest values and their perceptions were determined through various non-parametric statistical tests. Participants' perceptions about each group were generally similar, which included the two most prominent themes to be similar across all participants' perceptions of each group. Although the perceptions for a particular group were similar across the participant groups, they differed substantially with that participant group's personal ranking of the forest value themes. Key words: forest values, perceptions, stakeholders, cognitive mapping, sustainable forest management, collaborative decision-making

Integrating multi-discipline teams into forest planning: A case study in west-central Alberta

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D Simpson ◽  
Ted Gooding
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Penalty Cost ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Supply Analysis ◽  
Forest Values

Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. completed its 2007–2016 detailed forest management plan for its forest management agreement area by engaging multi-discipline expertise to better manage forest values. Disciplines were formed into impact assessment groups, which were charged with developing indicators and targets for identified values and objectives and with constructing models to predict the impacts of forest management activities. Three different modeling approaches were used in developing the plan and the best results were obtained by integrating indicators directly into the forecasting model even when the indicators were simple versions of complex models. Integrating indicators into the forecasting model reduced the penalty cost on other indicators, permitted the model to find better solutions, provided almost immediate feedback to the plan development team, permitted more scenarios to be investigated, and provided a better understanding of the dynamics and tradeoffs. The other two techniques used in the DFMP involved the assessment of forecasted scenarios with more complex discipline specific models, which provided more detailed information about the indicators. Key words: forecasting, forest management planning, Patchworks, forest management modeling, timber supply analysis, trade-off analysis, VOIT

Evaluating the transition to sustainable forest management in Ontario’s Crown Forest Sustainability Act and forest management planning manuals from 1994 to 2009

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Robson ◽  
Troy Davis
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
Crown Forest ◽  
Range Of Values

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the extent of policy change and learning in the 20 years following the implementation of Ontario’s forest sustainability legislation. Extent of policy learning and change towards sustainable forest management are measured using a combination of content, co-occurrence, and textual analysis of the previous Crown Timber Act and the new Crown Forest Sustainability Act, as well as the latter’s 1996 and 2009 forest planning manuals. There were four key findings. First, policy change towards sustainable forest management has been limited. Second, although there was an increased number of values mentioned in new legislation and planning manuals, the frequency of timber values remained dominant. Third, although integration occurred among a greater range of values, integration with timber values continued to dominate. Fourth, with respect to policy learning, the achievement of sustainable forest management is now explicit and judged based on evidence regarding the inclusion of a range of values beyond timber. The paper concludes that the transition to the more integrative and responsive policies of sustainable forest management remains a work in progress.

scholarly journals Web-Based Forest Resources Management Decision Support System

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Marto ◽  
Keith Reynolds ◽  
José Borges ◽  
Vladimir Bushenkov ◽  
Susete Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
The Web

In this paper, we present a web-based decision support system (DSS)—wSADfLOR—to facilitate the access of stakeholders to tools that may contribute to enhancing forest management planning. The emphasis is on a web-based architecture and a web graphic user interface (wGUI) that may effectively support the analysis of trade-offs between ecosystem services in order to address participatory and sustainable forest management objectives. For that purpose, the wGUI provides remote access to a management information system, enabling users to analyze environmental and biometric data and topological information as well. Moreover, the wGUI provides remote access to forest simulators so that users may define and simulate prescriptions such as chronological sequences of management options and the corresponding forest ecosystem services outcomes. Remote access to management planning methods is further provided so that users may input their objectives and constraints. The wGUI delivers information about tradeoffs between ecosystem services in the form of decision maps so that users in different locations may negotiate bundles of ecosystem services as well as the plan needed to provide them. The multiple criteria programming routines provide proposals for management plans that may be assessed further, using geographical and alphanumeric information provided by the wGUI. Results for an application to a forested landscape extending to 14,388 ha are presented and discussed. This landscape provides several ecosystem services and the development of its management plan involves multiple stakeholders. Results show that the web-based architecture and the wGUI provide effective access for stakeholders to information about the forest management planning area and to decision support tools that may contribute to addressing complex multi-objective and multiple-decision-maker management planning contexts. They also highlight that the involvement and participation of stakeholders in the design of the web-based architecture contributes to assuring the quality and the usability of the system.

scholarly journals Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil: Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning

10.5772/30293 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andr Eduardo Biscaia de Lacerda ◽  
Maria Augusta Doetzer Rosot ◽  
Afonso Figueiredo ◽  
Marilice Cordeiro ◽  
Evelyn Roberta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Participatory Forest Management

scholarly journals Bi-Level Participatory Forest Management Planning Supported by Pareto Frontier Visualization

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-500
Author(s):  
S Marques ◽  
V A Bushenkov ◽  
A V Lotov ◽  
M Marto ◽  
J G Borges
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Pareto Frontier ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Master Problem ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Decomposition Approach ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Interactive Decision Maps

Abstract This research addresses the problem of forested landscape management planning in contexts characterized by multiple ecosystem services and multiple stakeholders. A new methodology for participatory landscape-level forest management is proposed. Specifically, a bilevel representation is used, whereas models of subsystems are used for constructing an integrated model of the master problem. Participatory workshops and interactive visualization of the Pareto frontier are used to support the solution of the multi-objective optimization upper- and lower-level problems. The visualization is implemented by a technique—Interactive Decision Maps—that displays interactively the Pareto frontier in the form of decision maps, that is, collections of the objectives’ tradeoff curves. Since the upper-level problem may be characterized by a large number of decision variables, we compare the Pareto frontier generated by the Interactive Decision Maps technique with the Pareto frontier generated by a decomposition approach that builds from the Pareto frontiers of the lower-level subproblems. The approach supports further the negotiation between upper- and lower-level goals. Results are discussed for a large-scale application in a forested landscape in northwest Portugal.

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