Guidelines for the Country Report

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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

Problem type definitions

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 covered in due course of FORSYS.

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

Guidelines for type pages

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