Brazil-DSS usage at a company combining both short rotation plantations and natural forest management in their operation
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Case
| Has flag | N/A |
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| Has full name | DSS usage at a company combining both short rotation plantations and natural forest management in their operation |
| Has country | Brazil |
| Has location | |
| Has responsible organisation | Simosol |
| Has type of owner organization | |
| Has related DSS | |
| Has start date | |
| Has end date | |
| Has DSS development stage | use |
| Has decision stage | |
| Has temporal scale | Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical), Short term (operational) |
| Has spatial context | Non spatial |
| Has spatial scale | Forest level |
| Has decision making dimension | Single decision maker |
| Has objectives dimension | Single objective |
| Has goods and services dimension | Market wood products |
| Has working group theme | |
| Has website | |
| Has description | An in-depth interview of forest management planners of the use of DSS in their daily work; aspects of including which planning tasks they use DSS or not, and why.
Focus on a company that combines both short rotation plantations and management of natural forests in its operation. |
| Has reference | |
| Has wiki contact person | jussi.rasinmaki@simosol.fi |
| Has wiki contact e-mail | jussi.rasinmaki@simosol.fi |
| Has DSS development | |
| Has decision support techniques | |
| Has knowledge management processes | |
| Has support for social participation |
See cases "Brazil: Short rotation eucalyptus pulp wood plantations" and "Brazil: Sustainable natural forest management; rainforest in the Amazon basin" for the description of individual management tasks that the company was combining in its operation.
Observations:
- Not trivial to match the two from the DSS point of view; the company wanted to have a single system to handle the operational planning of both simultaneously
- Looked into offerings on domestic market (my interpretation: because of operational specifics of the short rotation system?), those very much focused on the short rotation plantation
- Significant adaptation effort by the supplier to change the system so that it could handle the _operational_ aspects of both systems: six months so far, not yet ready, at least limited success though with some creative solutions
- What about initial investment decision (Excel only?) (check)
- What about long term planning? (check)
