Case Lessons involving models & methods

Has related case	Lesson	Has working group theme
Austria-Improving forestry extension services for small-scale private landowners	Projection of stand development increases knowledge base	Models & techniques Knowledge management
Belgium-BoLa a specific sDSS to support land use planning in Flanders	Neighbourhood interrelations should be included in the generator	Dss development process Models & techniques
Belgium-BoLa a specific sDSS to support land use planning in Flanders	Results are always strongly dependent on the quality of the underlying data	Models & techniques Knowledge management
Belgium-BoLa a specific sDSS to support land use planning in Flanders	The user has to be aware of the possibly large impact that the chosen land indicators and threshold	Models & techniques Participation
Belgium-Participative modelling of long-term wood production in the forest complex Bosland	Adapting the software to make it possible to easily include also the output of other mechanistic	Dss development process Models & techniques
Belgium-Participative modelling of long-term wood production in the forest complex ‘Bosland’	A financial analysis is an important component in the discussion about the preferences of different	Dss development process Models & techniques
Belgium-Participative modelling of long-term wood production in the forest complex ‘Bosland’	Afforestion and deforestation options should be included in the management options	Dss development process Models & techniques
Belgium-Participative modelling of long-term wood production in the forest complex ‘Bosland’	An optimisation module comparing alternative scenarios based on multi-criteria analysis should be	Dss development process Models & techniques
Belgium-Participative modelling of long-term wood production in the forest complex ‘Bosland’	It should be possible to specify the rotation time of a species not only by age but also by target	Dss development process Models & techniques
Germany-Using GISCAME to test alternative land-use scenarios under climate change in the Upper Elbe Valley	Need of flexibilization of analytical tools - no overdesigned tool that provides too much features for the use	Dss development process Models & techniques
Ireland-PractiSFM multi-resource inventory and decision support for private forest owners	Provide a simple version of the DSS, which new users can try out and learn quickly	Dss development process Models & techniques
Italy-A comprehensive system for forest management planning in Trentino Province	To compare the current and the past quantitative-qualitative parameters of the forest, great effort	Dss development process Models & techniques
Italy-Analysis of logging residues chain for a sustainable bioenergy production in Alta Val di Non	Embedding a DSS in a GIS software allows obtaining information at different spatial scales using the	Dss development process Models & techniques
Italy-Assessing forest functions at stand scale in a sub-regional forest plan in the Dolomites	DSS can help in varying the treatment according to more than one forest function	Dss development process Models & techniques
Italy-ProgettoBosco a data-driven DSS for forest planning: an application in Abruzzo Region	The definition of standardized and specific criteria for selecting and zoning forest compartment	Dss development process Models & techniques
Italy-ProgettoBosco a data-driven DSS for forest planning: an application in Abruzzo Region	The fact that ProgettoBosco is conceived according to the criteria and indicators of sustainable	Dss development process Models & techniques
Portugal-Supporting a multi stakeholders decision process in a Portuguese National Forest	Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning	Dss development process Models & techniques
Sweden-The development and introduction of versatile DSS in Sweden	As the core of forest DSS are models describing the development of trees and stands (growth and	Models & techniques
Sweden-The development and introduction of versatile DSS in Sweden	Enabling the analyses of several ecosystem services (timber and non-timber resources) in one and the	Models & techniques
Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden	Providing procedures and structure for data flow from selection of field sample, performing field	Models & techniques
United States-Boise-Payette-Sawtooth National Forest Plan	Multiple DSS are often needed to meet complex needs	Models & techniques
United States-Boise-Payette-Sawtooth National Forest Plan	The kinds of DSS traditionally used to calculate timber harvest levels are now being used to model	Dss development process Models & techniques
United States-The forest plan revision process in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	Despite the widely use and acceptance of the DSS there was still a lack of expertise to	Models & techniques Knowledge management
United States-The forest plan revision process in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	From a management perspective, to avoid the complication of testing something new, the models used	Models & techniques
United States-The restoration strategy of the dry and mesic landscape in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	Analysis at the landscape level allowed the integration of concerns about multiple resources as well	Models & techniques Knowledge management
United States-The restoration strategy of the dry and mesic landscape in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	Forest managers have to analyze how their forest management interventions effect the landscape	Models & techniques Knowledge management