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Decision making in land management involves preferential selection
among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult
owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the
analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the
1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning,
resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business,
energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation,
more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental
sciences are appearing regularly. This realization has prompted the
authors to collect some of the important works in this area and
present them as a single volume for managers and scholars. Because
land management contains a somewhat unique set of features not
found in other AHP application areas, such as site-specific
decisions, group participation and collaboration, and incomplete
scientific knowledge, this text fills a void in the literature on
management science and decision analysis for forest resources.
This updated and expanded second edition adds the most recent
advances in participatory planning approaches and methods, giving
special emphasis to decision support tools usable under
uncertainty. The new edition places emphasis on the selection of
criteria and creating alternatives in practical multi-criteria
decision making problems.
Decision making in land management involves preferential selection
among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult
owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the
analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the
1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning,
resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business,
energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation,
more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental
sciences are appearing regularly. This realization has prompted the
authors to collect some of the important works in this area and
present them as a single volume for managers and scholars. Because
land management contains a somewhat unique set of features not
found in other AHP application areas, such as site-specific
decisions, group participation and collaboration, and incomplete
scientific knowledge, this text fills a void in the literature on
management science and decision analysis for forest resources.
This book has been developed as a textbook of decision support
methods for s- dents and can also serve as a handbook for practical
foresters. It is based on the research we have carried out and
lectures we have given over the past years. We have set out to
present all the methods in enough details and examples that they
can be adopted from this book. For researchers who need more
details, references are given to more advanced scienti c papers and
books. In this book, theories of decision making and the methods
used for forestry - cision support are presented. The book covers
basics of classical utility theory and its fuzzy counterparts,
exact and heuristic optimization method and modern mul- criteria
decision support tools such as AHP or ELECTRE. Possibilities of
analyzing and dealing with uncertainty are also brie y presented.
The use of each method is illustrated with examples. In addition to
decision aid methods, we present the basic theory of participatory
planning. Both hard and soft methods suitable for partici- tory or
group decision analysis are presented, such as problem structuring
method and voting. The criticism towards decision theory is also
covered. Finally, some real-life examples of the methods are
presented. Annika Kangas Department of Forest Resource Management
University of Helsinki Jyrki Kangas Metsahallitus ] Mikko Kurttila
University of Joensuu v Acknowledgements
Manyresearchersandstudentshavehelpedusbyreviewingchapters,
suggesting- provements and even checking our example calculations.
We would like to ackno- edgethesereviewers, Ms.AnuHankala,
M.Sc.TeppoHujala, M.Sc.AnnuKaila,
This edited open access volume explores the role of forest
bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a
particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear,
growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and
environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable
production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in
order to lead to an economic paradigm shift? This and other
questions are discussed throughout the volume. Since science
indicates that climate change will continue this century, the
authors also analyse how forests can be adapted to increasing
forest disturbances that changing climate are expected to cause.
The authors propose climate-smart forestry as useful approach for
climate mitigation and adaptation of forests to climate change, as
wells as sustainable increase of economic well-being based on
forestry. The book illustrates the application of climate-smart
forestry in the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany and Spain, i.e.,
in EU countries with quite different forests and forest sectors.
This proactive and inspiring volume is an essential resource for
Forest Management professionals, decision makers, scientists, and
forestry students.
This edited open access volume explores the role of forest
bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a
particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear,
growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and
environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable
production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in
order to lead to an economic paradigm shift? This and other
questions are discussed throughout the volume. Since science
indicates that climate change will continue this century, the
authors also analyse how forests can be adapted to increasing
forest disturbances that changing climate are expected to cause.
The authors propose climate-smart forestry as useful approach for
climate mitigation and adaptation of forests to climate change, as
wells as sustainable increase of economic well-being based on
forestry. The book illustrates the application of climate-smart
forestry in the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany and Spain, i.e.,
in EU countries with quite different forests and forest sectors.
This proactive and inspiring volume is an essential resource for
Forest Management professionals, decision makers, scientists, and
forestry students.
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