Strategy Pattern Creation in Forest Planning in Swedish Forest-Owning Companies

Strategy Pattern Creation in Forest Planning in Swedish Forest-Owning Companies

Forest-owning companies in Sweden have both a goal to yield a good short-term rate of return on their forest and a goal to maintain a high long-term rate of return by maintaining the production of wood-based products. Both these objectives are taken into account in the forest planning process. For the long-term goal, the companies develop strategies formulated in the forest planning system and ...

Industrial Symbiosis in the Swedish Forest Industry

Conflicting images of forest in Swedish discourse

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Trends in spatial forest planning

Both mathematical and heuristic methods have advanced rapidly in spatial forest planning over the past 20 years. The review presented here is broader in both scope and depth (more analysis within spatial forest planning models). We conduct here a world-wide literature review and extensive analysis of the status and trends over the past two decades in spatial forest planning. In our investigatio...

Readiness of Forest Officers for Adaptations in Forest Management Planning

Under the framework of a society that enhances the demand for different kinds of ecosystem services, “Forest Management Planning” (FMP) has changed notably over the last decades. As a consequence of budget constraints and the fact that the present forest planning system of the State Forest Administration of Baden-Württemberg has been in operation since 2000, this system has to be developed furt...