Decision Making In Forest Management
DOWNLOAD
Download Decision Making In Forest Management PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Decision Making In Forest Management book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Decision Support For Forest Management
DOWNLOAD
Author : Annika Kangas
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Decision Support For Forest Management written by Annika Kangas and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This updated and expanded second edition adds the most recent advances in participatory planning approaches and methods, giving special emphasis to decision support tools usable under uncertainty. The new edition places emphasis on the selection of criteria and creating alternatives in practical multi-criteria decision making problems.
Handbook Of Operations Research In Natural Resources
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andres Weintraub
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-09-19
Handbook Of Operations Research In Natural Resources written by Andres Weintraub and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-19 with Science categories.
Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact. Andrés Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. Moreover, he has an international reputation in OR and a former president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). He has selected co-editors who are at the top of the sub-fields in natural resources: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining. The book will cover these areas in terms with contributions from researchers on modeling natural research problems, quantifying data, developing algorithms, and discussing the benefits of research implementations. The handbook will include tutorial contributions when necessary. Throughout the book, technological advances and algorithmic developments that have been driven by natural resource problems will be called out and discussed.
Decision Making In Forest Management
DOWNLOAD
Author : R. W. Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Decision Making In Forest Management written by R. W. Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with categories.
Decision Support For Forest Management
DOWNLOAD
Author : Annika Kangas
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-03-26
Decision Support For Forest Management written by Annika Kangas and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
Decision Making In Forest Management
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Robert Wale Williams
language : en
Publisher: Research Studies Press Limited
Release Date : 1981
Decision Making In Forest Management written by Michael Robert Wale Williams and has been published by Research Studies Press Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Business & Economics categories.
Time-scales in financial calculation. Using various compound interest/discount rates. The price/size relationship. The money yield table. Discounted revenue and expenditure. Net discounted revenue. The internal rate of return. Other financial tools. The planting decision. The site-improvement decision. The thinning decision. The felling decision. The pruning decision. The roading decision.
Forest Management And Planning
DOWNLOAD
Author : Pete Bettinger
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2016-12-29
Forest Management And Planning written by Pete Bettinger and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-29 with Science categories.
Forest Management and Planning, Second Edition, addresses contemporary forest management planning issues, providing a concise, focused resource for those in forest management. The book is intermixed with chapters that concentrate on quantitative subjects, such as economics and linear programming, and qualitative chapters that provide discussions of important aspects of natural resource management, such as sustainability. Expanded coverage includes a case study of a closed canopy, uneven-aged forest, new forest plans from South America and Oceania, and a new chapter on scenario planning and climate change adaptation. - Helps students and early career forest managers understand the problems facing professionals in the field today - Designed to support land managers as they make complex decisions on the ecological, economic, and social impacts of forest and natural resources - Presents updated, real-life examples that are illustrated both mathematically and graphically - Includes a new chapter on scenario planning and climate change adaptation - Incorporates the newest research and forest certification standards - Offers access to a companion website with updated solutions, geographic databases, and illustrations
Planning And Decision Making For Forest Management In The Market Economy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Max Krott
language : en
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Release Date : 1997
Planning And Decision Making For Forest Management In The Market Economy written by Max Krott and has been published by Cuvillier Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Capitalism categories.
Quantitative Techniques In Participatory Forest Management
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eugenio Martinez-Falero
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Quantitative Techniques In Participatory Forest Management written by Eugenio Martinez-Falero and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Mathematics categories.
Forest management has evolved from a mercantilist view to a multi-functional one that integrates economic, social, and ecological aspects. However, the issue of sustainability is not yet resolved. Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management brings together global research in three areas of application: inventory of the forest variables that determine the main environmental indices, description and design of new environmental indices, and the application of sustainability indices for regional implementations. All these quantitative techniques create the basis for the development of scientific methodologies of participatory sustainable forest management.
Consideration Of Uncertainty In Forest Management Decision Making
DOWNLOAD
Author : Emmett Frank Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Consideration Of Uncertainty In Forest Management Decision Making written by Emmett Frank Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Decision making categories.
Management decisions are generally considered to be made under one of three categories of future knowledge: certainty, risk, or uncertainty. All three categories occur in forest management. However, forest management decisions whose outcomes are dependent upon future levels of timber yields, prices, utilization standards, or social and legal institutions are made under uncertainty. Forest managers have always recognized that uncertainty existed; however, they have not systematically included it in their decision- making process. The objectives of the study were to: (1) establish the importance of systematically considering uncertainty in forest management decision-making and (2) illustrate and evaluate a model or procedure, for the systematic consideration of uncertainty in forest management decision-making. A review of the present status of forest management decision-making constituted fulfillment of the first objective. Theoretical decision-making models which are currently used in forest management, e. g., present worth analysis, capital budgeting, financial maturity, and linear programming, while conceptually capable of considering uncertainty, imply certainty That is, forestry applications of these models have employed single-valued expectations. Fulfillment of the second objective consisted initially of a review of recent developments in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty. All decision-making problems have some common components. These components are: decision-alternatives, the actions which the decision-maker deems possible to take; states of nature, the future events which determine the outcome of the actions; and consequences, the result of taking a specific action and finding that a particular state occurs. The more popular theoretical models for decision-making under uncertainty were reviewed: minimax, minimax regret, Hurwicz index, and Laplace. While useful in some cases, each of these models has specific disadvantages. In addition, all the models have one common major disadvantage, they contain the implicit assumption that the decision-maker is completely ignorant about the states of nature which influence his problem. In reality, forest managers and other decision-makers usually possess some information, although it may be vague, about their problems. If a decision-maker is not willing to assume complete ignorance about the occurrence of the states of nature, he cannot apply any of the above models. There is a theoretical decision-making model which appears compatible with reality. The model, Bayesian decision theory, allows the decision-maker to arrive at a solution which is compatible with his opinions or judgements about the states of nature. Also, he can combine these opinions or judgements with experimental data to derive a solution using all available information, both subjective and objective. Fulfillment of the second objective was completed by illustrating the application of Bayesian decision theory to a hypothetical problem. The problem, optimal degree of land ownership for an industrial forestry firm, was defined within the Bayesian model and a solution derived. Since the problem was hypothetical, the actual solution is not the primary result of the study. The resulting implications for actual situations is the primary contribution. If forest managers are to make decisions which contain uncertainty, the uncertainty should be systematically recognized in the decision-making process. The Bayesian model is a logical procedure for such recognition. By adopting and applying such models, the efficiency of forest management decision-making will be increased.
Forest Service Decision Making
DOWNLOAD
Author : Charles S. Cotton
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1998
Forest Service Decision Making written by Charles S. Cotton and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
The Forest Service (FS) has spent 20+ years and over $250 million developing multi-year plans for managing national forests. This report discusses the internal and external causes of inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the FS's decision-making process: the inadequate attention that the FS has given to improving the process; the lack of agreement, both inside and outside the agency, on how it is to resolve the conflicts among competing uses on its lands; unresolved interagency issues that transcend its administrative boundaries and jurisdiction; and differences in the requirements of laws that help frame its decision-making. Charts and tables.