Adaptive optimization of forest management in a stochastic world

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 99, Issue , 2016, Pages 525-543

  Lohmander, Peter ^a  

^a SLU   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forest managements; Stochastic dynamic optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955104167     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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