NorFor

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name NorFor
Has acronym NorFor
Has wiki contact person
Has wiki contact e-mail

Software identification

Has software NorFor.Software

Description

Has description NorFor is a spatial, partial equilibrium model of the Norwegian forest sector based on the assumption of perfect competition and perfect foresight. Maiximising NPV of the annual net social payoff, the model determines optimal behavior in forestry and forest industry as well as consumers.
Has modelling scope Economical indicators
Has temporal scale Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Forest level, Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives, Single objective
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension Market non-wood products, Market services, Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension More than one decision maker/stakeholder, Single decision maker
Has forest management goal
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile
Has country Norway
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users <=3
Has number of real-life applications 0
Has utilisation in education no
Has research project reference Sjølie, H. K., Latta, G. S., Adams, D. M., & Solberg, B. (2011). Impacts of agent information assumptions in forest sector modeling. Journal of Forest Economics, 17(2), 169-184.
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques NorFor.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes NorFor.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation NorFor.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development NorFor.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website
Has online demo
Has manual No
Has technical documentation No
Has reference Sjølie, H.K., Latta, G., Gobakken, T. and Solberg, B. 2011. NorFor - a forest sector model of Norway - Model overview and structure. INA fagrapport 18. http://www.umb.no/statisk/ina/publikasjoner/fagrapport/if18.pdf.