In the context of the COST Action FORSYS a Training School on “Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Forest Management” is organized by BOKU and taking place from 16.09-21.09.2012 in Vienna, Austria. The training school intends to focus on the development and application of forest management decision support systems (DSS). The general aim of the course is to make participants familiar with the challenges of DSS development, give insight to existing DSS cases and allow them to contribute to projects focussing on decision support. The training school will concentrate on the theory of decision sciences, case studies and practical training examples. Thematic issues to be addressed will include the wide range of topics covered in sustainable forest management in particular focussing on challenges related to spatial planning, predicting forest dynamics under climate change and modelling trade offs of different ecosystem services.
The Training School is targeted to postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of every student’s doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least some substantive work, but not to have completely finished their thesis. Interested candidates should send the application to the chair of the organizing committee: Harald Vacik (harald.vacik@boku.ac.at). Deadline for the application is 3rd of June 2012. The Organizing Committee will select the candidates based on their application.
