It is well known that forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including provisioning services (wood, firewood, fruits, etc.), cultural services (recreation, knowledge, etc.) and regulating services (water and climate regulation, among others). Therefore, ecosystem services include goods and services, with and without markets. Both the marketed and the non-marketed goods and services should be incorporated into forest management making processes in several ways.
The journal Forests (ISSN 1999-4907, IF 1.951) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Integrating Ecosystem Services into Valuation and Forest Management Decisions". Professor Luis Díaz-Balteiro, of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (Madrid, Spain), and Dr. Mario Soliño, of the National Institute for Agriculture & Food Research & Technology (INIA), Forest Research Centre (CIFOR), (Madrid, Spain), are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.
We would like to inform you about the possibility to publish results of your scientific work in the special Issue entitled "Decision Support Approaches in Adaptive Forest Management-Selected Papers from the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress".
The submission deadline is 30. October 2017. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
In 2014 the European Commission (EC) defined Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as that one in which “societal actors work together during the whole research and innovation process in order to better align both the process and its outcomes, with the values, needs and expectations of European society”. The concretion of this framework of RRI has been articulated by the EC around six key areas: government, public engagement, gender equality, science education, open access and open science and ethics.
In our daily lives or professional settings, there are many decision problems that involve multiple criteria, which may be conflicting and incommensurable. The complexity of real-world decision and the plethora of factors and criteria that are often involved necessitate the implementation of a sound theoretical framework to structure and model the decision-making process. Methods of Multiple Criteria Decision Making/Aid (MCDM/A) can be applied to support decision makers (DMs) in such task.
While systems based on complex decision-making techniques are developed and widely used in various industrial settings, there is a pressing demand for methods that humans can understand.
Management information system broadly refers to a computer-based system that provides managers with the tools to organize, evaluate and efficiently manage departments within an organization. In order to provide past, present and prediction information, a management information system can include software that helps in decision making, data resources such as databases, the hardware resources of a system, decision support systems, people management and project management applications, and any computerized processes that enable the d
