Spatially dynamic forest management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-89

  Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a   Juutinen, Artti ^b,c   Mazziotta, Adriano ^a   Miettinen, Kaisa ^a   Podkopaev, Dmitry ^a   Reunanen, Pasi ^a   Salminen, Hannu ^c   Tikkanen, Olli Pekka ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cost effectiveness; Forest management; Land use planning; Multi objective optimization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

% REDUCTIONS; DEAD WOOD; ECONOMIC RETURNS; FOREST LANDSCAPE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LAND USE PLANNING; MANAGEMENT REGIME; MULTI-OBJECTIVES OPTIMIZATION; NATURAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL COMBINATION;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

BIODIVERSITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAXONOMY; TIMBER;

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FINLAND; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STAND; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIES HABITAT; TAIGA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; TREE; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; HUMANS; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84893009687     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.021     Document Type: Article

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