Decision Support for Forest Management

The updated and expanded second edition of the book "Decision Support for Forest Management" edited by Kangas, A., Kurttila, M., Hujala, T., Eyvindson, K., Kangas, J. in the Springer Series Managing Forest Ecosystems adds the most recent advances in participatory planning approaches and methods, giving special emphasis to decision support tools usable under uncertainty. The new edition places emphasis on the selection of criteria and creating alternatives in practical multi-criteria decision making problems. Some of the highlights are:

• covers a broad a scope of planning methods and methodologies, supported by comprehensive numerical examples
• first forestry textbook that covers stochastic optimisation and provides numerical examples
• introduces state-of-the art multi-criteria analysis methods linked to practical forestry examples
• presents sound MCA methods, with recommendations and examples for practical application

For more information on the table of contents please have a look at

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319235219?token=prtst0416p#aboutBook