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

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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/