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{{STSM Opportinity
|Start date=2012/01/15
|End date=2012/03/31
|Language=German
|Country=Netherlands
|Host organisation=Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
|Website=http://www.itc.nl/
|Contact person=Luc Boerboom 
|Address=University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE  Enschede, The Netherlands
|Telephone=+31 (0)53 487 44 44
|Fax=+31 (0)53 487 44 00
|Email=boerboom@itc.nl
|Involves a FORSYS case study=Yes
}}
=Overcoming challenges of integrating decision support systems in collaborative forestry scenario development processes=

==Background==
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. 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. 

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.

==Motivation for the mission  (to be elaborated in STSM project proposal)==
* Goal of the proposed STSM and its contribution to FORSYS objectives 
**Understand embedding of DSS in collaborative forest scenario development
* Main contents of the STSM (list of activities to be carried out at the host institution; you can take ideas from the STSM call description, see attached on the wiki pages)
**Develop a survey for stakeholders
**Describe the challenges and resolutions
Different theoretical approaches could be taken depending on mutual interest.

==Practical Considerations==
Timing: January – August 2012, but STSM would probably have to take place at ITC and in Rheinland Pfalz around March-May 2012. 
Language: Only for German speakers.