This paper provides a survey of the literature on multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM)
applications to forestry problems undertaken in the last 30 years or so. More than 250 …

Operations research (OR) has helped people to understand and manage agricultural and
forestry resources during the last 40 years. We analyzed its use to assess the past …

This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling
agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is …

We discuss the benefits of using multiple criteria decision support (MCDS) methods in forest
management, briefly present some MCDS methods recently applied in forestry, and …

Climate change is a phenomenon that is forcing the world to adapt to a different
environment. In this study, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is combined with a …

Nowadays, the need to incorporate the carbon captured by the forest ecosystems as a
complementary objective into the corresponding management optimisation models is …

This chapter presents a bibliography of goal programming for the period 1990–2000. Goal
programming is introduced and the main variants are defined. An analysis of applications by …

The existing forest economic models, rooted in sustained yield timber management systems
and neo-classical economic framework, are subject to many limitations. Social, economic …

Let us consider i= 1, 2,… n alternative forest plans to be evaluated according to j= 1, 2,… m
indicators of sustainability. An expert or panel of experts suggests a set of targets or …

While riparian vegetation can play a major role in protecting land, water and natural habitat
in catchments, there are high costs associated with tree planting and establishment and in …