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Decision Support Systems in Forest Management

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Numerous decision support systems have been developed for forest management over the past 20 years or more. In this chapter, the authors briefly review some of the more important and recent developments, including examples from North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition to specific systems, we also review some of the more-significant methodological approaches such as artificial neural networks, knowledge-based systems, and multicriteria decision models. A basic conclusion that emerges from this review is that the availability of DSSs in forest management has enabled more-effective analysis of the options for and implications of alternative management approaches for all components of forest ecosystems. The variety of tools described herein, and the approaches taken by the different systems, provide a sample of the possible methods that can be used to help stakeholders and decision makers arrive at reasoned and reasonable decisions.

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  1. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Keith M. Reynolds

  2. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Burlington, VT, USA

    Mark Twery

  3. Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Manfred J. Lexer & Harald Vacik

  4. Forest Research, Scotland, UK

    Duncan Ray

  5. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Guofan Shao

  6. Institute of Agronomy, Department of Forest Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Jose G. Borges

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Reynolds, K. et al. (2008). Decision Support Systems in Forest Management. In: Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2. International Handbooks Information System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48716-6_24

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