Making forestry decisions with multiple criteria: A review and an assessment

L Diaz-Balteiro, C Romero - Forest ecology and management, 2008 - Elsevier
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 …

Hybrid MCDA methods to integrate multiple ecosystem services in forest management planning: a critical review

B Uhde, W Andreas Hahn, VC Griess… - Environmental …, 2015 - Springer
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a decision aid frequently used in the field of forest
management planning. It includes the evaluation of multiple criteria such as the production …

Continuous cover forestry in Finland–recent research results

T Pukkala, E Lähde, O Laiho - Continuous cover forestry, 2011 - Springer
The current official silvicultural instructions of Finland recommend even-aged rotation forest
management (RFM) combined with low thinning and artificial regeneration. However, the …

A multifunctional comparison of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management in a boreal region

T Pukkala, E Lähde, O Laiho, K Salo… - Canadian Journal of …, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
The choice between even-and uneven-aged forest management is a topical issue as the
negative impacts of clear-felling are being increasingly criticized and the profitability of even …

The inclusion of improved forest management in strategic forest planning and its impact on timber harvests, carbon and biodiversity conservation

M Ezquerro, M Pardos, L Diaz-Balteiro - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
In forestry, although the so-called nature-based climate solutions have usually been focused
on the calculation of carbon captured in new afforestation projects, it should be noted that …

Sustainability of forest management plans: a discrete goal programming approach

L Diaz-Balteiro, C Romero - Journal of Environmental Management, 2004 - Elsevier
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 …

Changed thinning regimes may increase carbon stock under climate change: A case study from a Finnish boreal forest

J Garcia-Gonzalo, H Peltola, E Briceno-Elizondo… - Climatic Change, 2007 - Springer
A physiological growth and yield model was applied for assessing the effects of forest
management and climate change on the carbon (C) stocks in a forest management unit …

Decision-making in forestry: A review of the hybridisation of multiple criteria and group decision-making methods

E Ortiz-Urbina, J González-Pachón, L Diaz-Balteiro - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
The degree of complexity in forest management has increased in the last few decades, not
only due to the inclusion of specific new issues (eg, climate change, social protection, etc.) …

Bank financial statement management using a goal programming model

BA Halim, H Abd Karim, NA Fahami, NF Mahad… - Procedia-social and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The six goals of one of the premier banks in Malaysia, namely asset accumulation, liability
reduction, equity wealth, earning, profitability and optimum management items in the …

Forest management under fire risk when forest carbon sequestration has value

S Couture, A Reynaud - Ecological Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
We develop a multiple forest use model to determine the optimal harvest date for a forest
stand producing both timber and carbon benefits under a risk of fire. An empirical application …