This paper is a comprehensive review of spatial forest-planning initiative that has been
carried out in forest-management planning over the last 2 decades. It describes, first of all …

Operations research is becoming increasingly prevalent in the natural resource sector,
specifically in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining. While there are similar research …

Optimization models and methods have been used extensively in the forest industry. In this
paper we describe the general wood-flow in forestry and a variety of planning problems …

Adjacency constraints in harvest scheduling models prevent the harvest of adjacent
management units within a given time period. Two mixed integer linear programming (MILP) …

Visual environmental aesthetics as a combinatorial output of a mathematical model can
enhance public acceptance of forest activities and increase the perception of sustainability …

The existing forest economic models, rooted in sustained yield timber management systems
and neo-classical economic framework, are subject to many limitations. Social, economic …

This article reviews an array of forest planning approaches where spatial objectives are
taken into account in optimization. According to ecological arguments, factors at the level of …

An increase in the use of operations research techniques for forest-level planning, as
expressed by publication of papers in peer-reviewed North American forestry journals, is …

The existence of multiple decision-makers and goals, spatial and non-linear forest
management objectives and the combinatorial nature of forest planning problems are …

Adjacency considerations have a significant impact on the acceptability of forest planning
alternatives and have forced analysts to look for effective methods for incorporating such …