Dear Colleagues
The
IUFRO units 4.04.04, 4.04.06 and 3.04.00 are co-organizing
with the University
of Washington (Precision Forestry Coop) and the European Union
Marie
Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program
(http://suforun.ctfc.cat/)
the 2017 Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources
(SSAFR) which will
be held in Suquamish, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 27-30,
2017 (http://depts.washington.edu/ssafr17/).
We
welcome abstracts on the following themes:
·
Educational
tools in operations
research and management science
·
Multi
Criteria Decision Analysis
(MCDA) methods
·
Forest
fire and invasive pest
detection, management & control
·
Forest
Decision Support Systems –
development and use
·
OR/MS
techniques for forest and
landscape planning – strategic, operational and tactical
levels
·
Forest
harvest operations models
·
Forest
supply chain optimization
·
Forest
sector modeling: economics
and policies
·
Bioenergy
and biorefinery siting
·
Forest
transportation & routing
models
·
Spatially
explicit harvest
scheduling models
·
Remote
sensing and geospatial
informatics
·
Assessment
of biodiversity
and ecosystem services
·
Modeling
sustainability
·
Modeling
uncertainty, hazard and
risk in forest management
·
Optimal
reserve selection models
·
Use of
geodata and map services in
analyzing spatial data
·
The
carbon balance of the forest
sector: projections under management options and climate
scenarios
Deadline for submission: January
10, 2017
More
information at: http://depts.washington.edu/ssafr17/abstract-submission/
We are
looking forward to your
abstract and to meeting you at the Symposium!
Best
regards,
Jose
Borges, Sandor Tóth, Marc
McDill, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo and Woodam Chung
-- José G. Borges Professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon http://www.isa.utl.pt/home/node/369 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/