Decisions for Sustainability
June 12-14, 2007
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Forest Estate Models for the Future
 
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Global Glimpses
Wood Supply Modelling in New Zealand - Dealing with the challenges

Past, Present and Future Challenges for the Office of the Chief Forester (Québec)

National/regional wood supply issues in Sweden
Wood Supply
Getting beyond the numbers - A look at wood supply in Canada

Integrating strategic forest estate modelling with tactical scenario development in Tasmania, Australia

PNWPRIVATE: A nested system of regional private timber supply models for Oregon and Washington with extensive mill and resource detail
Sustainability and Multiple Values
Sustainability of forest resources: assessing the various measures

Scenarios of triad zoning on a crown license in New Brunswick

Maintaining diverse forest values across multiple stands - the need for landscape planning
Model Design and Use
Designing models for designing the forest estate

Decentralized planning for the evaluation of spatial and inter-temporal tradeoffs in forest management

Parallel processing as a technical solution to large harvest scheduling problems

A system for rapid development of estate models for appraisals
Multiple Values and Water
Management of timber under a habitat conservation plan (HCP) in the Pacific Northwest

Modelling cumulative impacts for development of sustainable resource management plans

Modeling biodiversity, water, and carbon using Patchworks

Determining hydrologic hazards in BC using Bayesian belief networks to support decision-making in Mountain pine beetle responses
Data and Parameter Choice
Examining the length of the planning horizon in the midst of catastrophic natural disturbance and uncertainty

Handling data errors in forest planning

Complexity versus accuracy: inclusion, exclusion, and aggregation of data elements and the effects on strategic harvest scheduling problems
First Nations and Traditonal Use
Multi-scale cross-cultural resource modeling

Co-operative land management: the process, the players, the successes

Haisla perspectives on timber supply in Haisla traditional territory
Environmental Considerations
Environmental services market in forestry

Looking back and thinking forward

Spruce budworm and management planning
Stakeholders
Exploration of forest managment alternatives for public forest in New Brunswick

British Columbia Central Coast planning project - managing clients and expectations

Modeling needs of a private timberland owner
Economics
"What happened to economics?" incorporating forest business economic attributes into tactical analysis and planning

Incorporating demand criteria into traditional supply-based forest models

A study of the incremental costs related to application of ecosystem-based management
Habitat
Managing for structural attributes critical to maintaining wildlife habitat in managed stands and linkages to forest estate modelling

Using goal programming to evaluate MPB and woodlands caribou management tradeoffs

Habitat supply modelling in British Columbia
Seeking Solutions
Target-oriented multiple-period simultaneous forest planning using simulated annealing algorithms

Linking LP models with spatially-explicit models for forest planning

Recursive graph optimization for achieving spatial structure goals in estate models

To optimize or not to optimize: a practitioner's perspective
Disturbance
Influence of windstorms on marbled murrelet habitat development in managed coastal forests of Washington state: a scenario-based analysis

Sustainability of timber supply considering the risk of wildfire

Mid-term timber supply in the wake of the mountain pine beetle

Scheduling harvests in an environment of insect disturbance
Decision choices
Assessing habitat conditions for dispersing owls across space and time: combining expert opinion with empirical data to assess alternatives in Washington state's forest land planning process

Uncovering social and analytical factors contributing to the successful application of decision support systems for forest biodiversity management

Cost effective planning approaches to sustaining biodiversity at the landscape level in the managed forests of southeastern British Columbia
Climate Change and Carbon
Spruce budworm effects on optimum timber supply and carbon sequestered for an industrial forest in New Brunswick

Forest and natural resources management and climate change: Communicating to resource managers through cooperative extension

Stand level analysis of the impact of carbon credit trading on the behaviour of a forestry firm
Forest Estate Models
Other Tools
Decision Support
Habitat Supply
Sustainability
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