Forestry has contributed many problems to the Operations Research (OR) community. At the
same time, OR has developed many models and solution methods for use in forestry. In this …

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 …

Abstract Over the years, Operational Research (OR) has been used extensively to support
the forest products industry and public forestry organizations (eg, governments …

We discuss the benefits of using multiple criteria decision support (MCDS) methods in forest
management, briefly present some MCDS methods recently applied in forestry, and …

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 …

Operations research (OR) has helped people to understand and manage agricultural and
forestry resources during the last 40 years. We analyzed its use to assess the past …

The use of supply chain management and optimisation is of increasing importance in the
forest industry. The overall wood-flow starts with standing trees in forests and continues with …

This is a review of recent efforts to develop and implement forest and wildland fire
management decision support systems (FMDSS) that fire managers can use to enhance …

Several major environmental issues like biodiversity loss and climate change currently
concern the international community. These topics that are related to the development of …

The new economic challenges and recent trends in globalization have made it very difficult
for Canadian forest product companies to improve their financial position without the …