Guidelines for the Country Report
From COST Action FP0804: FORSYS
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FORSYS – this is our FOCUS
FORSYS aims at producing decision support guidelines for forest management planning problems, where a forest management planning problem involves …
- the definition of the timing and location of forest management options in a unit of forestland over a planning horizon,
- in order to approximate or optimize management objectives,
- that are single or multiple and relate to goods and services that are traded or non-traded, and
- subject to resource constraints.
Thus the output of a decision support tool as understood in FORSYS ideally includes …
- an efficient set of actions,
- tradeoffs between management goals, and
- impacts of changing and uncertain parameters.
Problem types
Problem type definitions
Guidelines will be created for a number of classes of forest management planning problems, or problem types. Each problem type shares a number of dimensions. dimensions. At present 10 different problem types are defined. They represent our minimal commitment; more problem types can be covered in due course of FORSYS.
| PROBLEM TYPES | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIMENSIONS | ||||||||||||
| Temporal scale | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| Long term (strategic) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Medium term (tactical) | x | |||||||||||
| Short term (operational) | x | |||||||||||
| Spatial context | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| Non spatial | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Spatial | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| Spatial Scale | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| Stand level | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Forest level | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Regional/national level | x | |||||||||||
| Decision making dimension | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| Unilateral | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| Collegial | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Bargaining / participative | ||||||||||||
| Participation process | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| None | ||||||||||||
| Public | ||||||||||||
| Restricted public | ||||||||||||
| Stakeholder | ||||||||||||
| Objectives dimension | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| Single | x | |||||||||||
| Multiple | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| Goods and services dimension | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ... |
| Market non wood products | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| Market wood products | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| Market services | x | x | ||||||||||
| Non market services | x | x |
Problem type guidelines
In the pages below you will find information associated with each problem type. Cumulatively they represent the Guidelines.
