call for papers SI - Decision Support for Forest Ecosystem Management Sustainability

This Special Issue of the journal Sustainability will comprise a selection of papers that present recent approaches and tools for addressing the sustainability of forest management scheduling. It aims at reporting research focusing on four main topics. (1) Development of criteria and indicators for assessing the impacts of management strategies on biodiversity, on vulnerability to wildfires, on product and revenue flows and on ecosystem sustainability. (2) Methods that can link traditional stand‑level approaches for forest production with a landscape‑level approach that targets spatial structures associated with ecological functioning and sustainable supply of forest-based services. (3) Methods that may help assess risk and uncertainty as well as trade-offs between ecosystem services to develop sustainable forest ecosystem management plans. (4) Decision support systems as platforms for the transfer of technology and knowledge of forest ecosystems in a way that is understandable to everyone, thus addressing participatory planning concerns. Bringing together research on topics (1) to (4) may contribute to an innovative interdisciplinary approach to help realize the potential of sustainable forest ecosystem management and policy analysis. This Special Issue is thus sponsored by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO Unit 4.04.04—Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling). Papers submitted for publication in this Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer review process with the aim of prompt and wide dissemination of research results and applications.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2016

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