The impact of the introduction of sustainable forest management objectives on the optimisation of PC-based forest-level harvest schedules

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 689-701

  Nieuwenhuis, Maarten ^a   Tiernan, Dermot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Castlebar Co ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Forest level planning; Harvest scheduling; Optimisation; Sustainable forest management (SFM)

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MODEL; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP); SOCIAL MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT (SFM);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FINANCE; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCHEDULING;

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGY; FINANCE; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PARAMETERS; SCHEDULING; SIMULATION;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 13444312141     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.03.019     Document Type: Article

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