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Case
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| Has full name | DSS usage on teak plantation in Brazil |
| Has country | Brazil |
| Has location | |
| Has responsible organisation | Simosol |
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| Has related DSS | |
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| Has DSS development stage | use |
| Has decision stage | |
| Has temporal scale | Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical), Short term (operational) |
| 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 |
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| Has description | An in-depth interview of forest management planners of the use of DSS in their daily work; aspects of including which planning tasks they use DSS or not, and why.
Focus on a company having teak plantations. |
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| Has wiki contact person | jussi.rasinmaki@simosol.fi |
| Has wiki contact e-mail | jussi.rasinmaki@simosol.fi |
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| Has decision support techniques | |
| Has knowledge management processes | |
| Has support for social participation |
This case study was conducted in November 2013 as a FORSYS STSM. Interviews were done in 5 companies (1 belonging to this category) with the people responsible for forest management planning. The aim was to find out what the company does, how they do do it, do they use a DSS for it, why and why not?
The STSM was organised by Atrium Forest Consulting / Silvana Nobre. The background of the STSM researcher is forest management DSS development in Finland.
See "Brazil: Short rotation eucalyptus pulp wood plantations" for general characteristics about plantation forestry and the use of DSS. The differences between the eucalyptus plantations and teak plantations are highlighted here.
The base silvicultural regime includes also thinnings. The regime is based more on a "rule of thumb" approach than in eucalyptus plantations, a direct consequence of the history and extent of respective plantations in Brazil. Teak plantations also have somewhat the same phenomenon of growth characteristics changing between clones as eucalyptus plantations, but this is not as intensive.
Related to the silvicultural regime, the unit value of the cut timber changes dramatically between harvests from first thinnings to final cut.
Observations:
- Operational planning still the basis; making sure the base regime is running smoothly. However the role of long term planning is bigger than in short rotation plantations. It has a clear guiding role for management regime formulation as well.
- long term planning: same tool as in short rotation plantation, but not same practical problems with it: the setup of the management closer to the origins of the system (“forestry, not agriculture”)
- The kind of organization you are matters also: teak plantations have longer rotation, and have to accommodate the requirements of outside investment with this => planning is used to match requirements of investments to the possibilities in management.
- Growth models matter: longer time span, slower cycle for changes needed in completely changing your growth models: there has been investment in tool for making sure the growth models are realistic for your plantations
