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== Problem types==
 
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Guidelines will be created for a number of classes of forest management planning problems, or '''problem types'''. Each problem type shares a number of '''dimensions'''. At present 10 different problem types are defined. They represent our minimal commitment; more problem types can be defined if needed.
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In the pages below you will find information associated with each problem type. Cumulatively they represent the '''Guidelines'''.
 
In the pages below you will find information associated with each problem type. Cumulatively they represent the '''Guidelines'''.

Revision as of 11:53, 7 January 2011

FORSYS – this is our FOCUS

FORSYS aims at producing decision support guidelines for forest management planning problems, where a forest management planning problem involves …

  • the definition of the timing and location of forest management options in a unit of forestland over a planning horizon,
  • in order to approximate or optimize management objectives,
  • that are single or multiple and relate to goods and services that are traded or non-traded, and
  • subject to resource constraints.

Thus the output of a decision support tool as understood in FORSYS ideally includes …

  • an efficient set of actions,
  • tradeoffs between management goals, and
  • impacts of changing and uncertain parameters.

Problem types

Guidelines will be created for a number of classes of forest management planning problems, or problem types. Each problem type shares a number of dimensions. At present 10 different problem types are defined. They represent our minimal commitment; more problem types can be defined if needed.

Problem type definitions

PROBLEM TYPES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
DIMENSIONS
Temporal scale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Long term (strategic) x x x x x x x x
Medium term (tactical) x
Short term (operational) x
Spatial context 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Non spatial x x x x x x
Spatial x x x x
Spatial Scale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Stand level x x x
Forest level x x x x x x
Regional/national level x
Decision making dimension 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Unilateral x x x x x x x
Collegial x x x
Bargaining / participative
Participation process 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
None
Public
Restricted public
Stakeholder
Objectives dimension 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Single x
Multiple x x x x x x x x x
Goods and services dimension 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Market non wood products x x x x x x x
Market wood products x x x x x x x x x x
Market services x x
Non market services x x

Dimensions definitions

Problem type guidelines

In the pages below you will find information associated with each problem type. Cumulatively they represent the Guidelines.