Dear Colleagues,
IUFRO Units 4.04.04—Sustainable Forest
Management Scheduling, IUFRO Unit 4.03—Informatics, Modelling, and
Statistics and IUFRO Unit 4.03.03. Information management and
information technologies are sponsoring a Special Issue of Forests
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests)
on Decision Support to Address Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest
Management Planning
We welcome the submission of manuscripts for publication in this
Forests special issue (SI). This SI aims at contributing to our
understanding of how we can enhance forest management planning, in
integrating a wide range of ecosystem services (ES) and assuring a
sustainable supply (e.g. products and services listed in the
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment). We welcome manuscripts that focus
on 1) models to help forest managers check the impact of management
options on the provision of ES, 2) methods to help forest managers
develop plans targeting the supply of ES, 3) methods to help forest
managers analyze tradeoffs between a multitude of ES,
4) methods to help forest managers assess the sensitivity of the
supply of ecosystem services to uncertain parameters, 5) multiple
criteria decision support systems and 6) approaches to map the
demand for ES and the quality and quantity of ES supply. Papers
submitted for publication in this Special Issue will undergo a
rigorous peer review process with the aim of prompt and wide
dissemination of research results and applications.
More information at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Decision_Support_to_Ecosystem_Services
On behalf the other co-editors of this SI, Harald Vacik, Keith
Reynolds, Luiz Carlos Rodriguez and Emin Baskent,
Jose
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José G. Borges
Professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
https://fenix.isa.ulisboa.pt/qubEdu/homepage/isa2342
Coordinator of EMMC Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDfOR)
http://www.medfor.eu/
Coordinator of IUFRO Group Sustainable forest management scheduling
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40400/40404/