Overcoming challenges of integrating DSS in strategic collaborative forestry scenario development.
| Start date | 2012/01/01 |
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| End date | 2012/09/01 |
| Language | German, English |
| Country | Germany, Netherlands |
| Host organisation | Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) University of Twente |
| Website | http://www.itc.nl/ |
| Contact person | Luc Boerboom |
| Address | PO Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands |
| Telephone | +31 (0)53 487 4247 |
| Fax | +31 (0)53 487 4575 |
| boerboom@itc.nl | |
| Involves a FORSYS case study | Yes |
Overcoming challenges of integrating DSS in strategic collaborative forestry scenario development.
This document invites people interested to elaborate a full proposal for a short term scientific mission for
1. Purpose: This case study delivers detailed understanding of institutionalization of decision support systems in collaborative strategic forest planning. This is relevant because regular forest design planning across Europe, which takes place in about 10 year cycles, needs to be steered in a systematic way by longer term perspectives due to long term uncertainties about climate, but also about forest functions, demography of society etc.
The Ministry of Environment of the German state of Rheinland Pfalz (http://www.mufv.rlp.de/) wishes to develop and implement multi-stakeholder scenario development process, methods and tools to develop a 30-50 year outlook that guides 10 year forest design planning. Initially only climate change shall be considered. In that sense this activity is a follow up from this project http://www.klimlandrp.de/. Together with the Forestclim project http://www.forestclim.eu/ this development and implementation takes place between fall of 2011 and summer of 2012 in a project called Regionale Waldbauplanung Rheinland Pfalz – Regional Forestry Planning Rhineland Palatinate (ReFoRP). Stakeholders are experts from different sections in the ministry who have contacts with different external agencies and organizations.
Different theoretical approaches could be taken depending on mutual interest. Activities could be development of a detailed monitoring tool about choices made in the design process of the strategic decision making, survey of participants in the actual decision making process, and publication of results at the Forsys wiki and in an ISI journal article.
2. Practical considerations:
Myself I am involved in the development and implementation process. We are encountering various challenges of relating and using different decision support systems for different purposes and with different stakeholders. I am too involved to observe all challenges and choices and the effectiveness of the process, methods and tools. It could be an interesting case study to formalize the experience of embedding DSS in forest management process.
• Timing: January – August 2012, but STSM would probably have to take place at ITC and with visits to Rheinland Pfalz around March-May 2012.
• ITC avails of a hotel (http://www.itc.nl/ITC-International-Hotel).
• Language: Only for German speakers.
