Integrating Multi Criteria Decision Analysis in Forest Planning
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2020) | Viewed by 347
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Interests: forest management; multiple criteria analysis; scenario analysis; collaborative planning
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Dear Colleagues,
In the context of sustainable forest management, forest planning is a complex process often involving a number of different stakeholders, objectives, and possible alternative solutions to the decision problem. As a result, there is a need for tools and methods that can support the planning process by analyzing synergies and trade-offs between different forest values. One such tool is multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA), which can help decision-makers to synthesize information so that the problem is defined, the objectives identified, and the ‘best’ alternative based on the importance of these objectives could be identified. The present Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers dealing with integrating MCDA in forest planning. We are particularly interested in papers dealing with the development of MCDA methods for forest planning, including MCDA integrated into forest decision support systems. Further, we encourage papers on case studies where MCDA has been applied to forest planning in innovative ways, to support sustainable forest management and the involvement of stakeholders.
Prof. Karin Öhman
Dr. Eva-Maria Nordström
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- trade-offs
- decision support
- sustainable forest management
- multi criteria decision analysis
- multi objective forest planning
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