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Advanced Scientific Methods and Tools in Sustainable Forest Management: A Synergetic Perspective

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Forest Dynamics and Conservation

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The field of forest management is characterized by the presence of diverse stakeholder groups which approach the task from different, sometimes conflicting, perspectives. Owners and timber producers are interested in maximized harvesting of forest raw materials while the goal of a broader public is to conserve forests. Forest ecosystems provide a spectrum of unique goods and services, such as food and medicinal plants, support of biodiversity, water and air quality, wildlife accommodation and climate mitigation. There is an obvious necessity to harmonize the needs of the stakeholder groups whereby forest conservation and logging are complementing, not competing, goals which can be achieved by promoting the ideas of sustainability. The problem of sustainability in forest management is approached from the perspective of advanced scientific methods and tools. A variety of theoretical concepts underlying the idea of sustainability in forestry studies is reviewed, and an integrated framework for a synergetic sustainable forest management is proposed. The framework accommodates various contributing concepts, such as sustainable development and its 17 goals, forest ecological-economic-social systems, forest ecosystem services and benefits, forest informatics, precision forestry, adaptive forest management, and data science. A nine-step roadmap for practical implementation of the framework is suggested comprising of: (1) data acquisition; (2) data storage; (3) data access; (4) data extraction; (5) data preprocessing; (6) data analysis; (7) modelling; (8) optimization; and (9) decision-making. Applications of advanced scientific methods and tools at each step of the roadmap are demonstrated. Integration of the multiple technologies and tools is a prominent current trend.

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