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
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.
Risk and decision analysts, as well as policy makers, are often faced with problems having spatial characteristics. Spatial variability is increasingly recognized as a key component in health, safety, and environmental exposure and risk assessment (e.g. Keller et al. 2014, Zagmutt et al., 2015, Zhou et al., 2014). In addition, there is a broad literature on spatial decision support in the environmental domain. A subset of this growing research field deals with risk (Malczewski, 2006), but, arguably, without a proper risk -analytic framework.
The special issue (SI) of the journal Industrial Management & Data Systems focuses on one of the very crucial but under-developed areas in knowledge-based decision support systems (KB-DSS) for business performance improvement, namely how KB-DSS can help address sustainability and societal challenges in real business environment. Specifically, it addresses the following questions:
