Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden
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| Has full name | The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden |
| Has country | Sweden |
| Has location | Applicable in all regions in Sweden |
| Has responsible organisation | Unclear! |
| Has type of owner organization | other |
| Has related DSS | FMPP |
| Has start date | 1980 |
| Has end date | The date "?" was not understood.The date "?" was not understood. |
| Has DSS development stage | Use |
| Has decision stage | choice |
| Has temporal scale | Long term (strategic) |
| Has spatial context | Non spatial |
| Has spatial scale | Forest level |
| Has decision making dimension | Single decision maker |
| Has objectives dimension | Single objective |
| Has goods and services dimension | Market wood products |
| Has working group theme | Dss development process, Models & techniques |
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| Has description | In an international parspective the FMPP (Jonsson et al. 1993)is unique as it include software as well as hardware (innovations and development of field survey equipment) for the entire process and data flow starting with selection of a sample followed by a field inventory, calculation of initial state, projection of a set of alternavative management alternatives for each sample stand and optimization for finding preferred forest holding level management alternatives. A stratified PPS sample (stand size as the size variable, the forest holding stand register making up the sampling frame) is very efficient for large populations and thereby the approach was cost efficient for large forest holdings.
In Sweden it brought about a paradimgm shift in forest management planning, maybe most of all as economics - not just cubic meters and hectars - was explicitly included in the analyses. Another corner stone were the stand - the actual treatment unit - as a sampling unit and base for the analysis contrary to individual sample plots in former systems. The system was designed and built by a small research group in the 1980's at SLU but got widely used by large forest companies in Sweden for 30 years. Large forest companies perform strategic planning procedures in 5 - 10 years interval. It was striking, though, that few persons had deep system knowledge. Moreover, in the last decade ownership and responsibilities have been unclear. Some experience from the use and application of the system is described by Jacobsson et al. (1991) The success factors - how come that it was so widely used for such a long time period? - has yet to be analyzed and documented. |
| Has reference | Jonsson, B., Jacobsson, J., and Kallur, H. 1993. The Forest Management Planning Package. Theory and application. Studia Forestalia Suecica 189. 56 pp.
Jacobsson, J., and Jonsson, B. 1991. The forest management planning package. Experience from applications. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept of Biometry and Forest Management. Report. 21, 38 pp. |
| Has wiki contact person | Tomas Lämås, Dept of Forest Resource Management, SLU |
| Has wiki contact e-mail | tomas.lamas@slu.se |
| Has DSS development | Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden.Description of DSS development |
| Has decision support techniques | Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden.Decision support techniques |
| Has knowledge management processes | Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden.Knowledge management process |
| Has support for social participation | Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden.Support of social participation |
