The IUFRO units 4.04.04, 4.04.06 and 3.04.00 are co-organizing with the University of Washington (Precision Forestry Coop) and the European Union Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program (http://suforun.ctfc.cat/) the 2017 Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR) which will be held in Suquamish, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 27-30, 2017 (http://depts.washington.edu/ssafr17/).
We welcome abstracts on the following themes:
- Educational tools in operations research and management science
- Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods
- Forest fire and invasive pest detection, management & control
- Forest Decision Support Systems – development and use
- OR/MS techniques for forest and landscape planning – strategic, operational and tactical levels
- Forest harvest operations models
- Forest supply chain optimization
- Forest sector modeling: economics and policies
- Bioenergy and biorefinery siting
- Forest transportation & routing models
- Spatially explicit harvest scheduling models
- Remote sensing and geospatial informatics
- Assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Modeling sustainability
- Modeling uncertainty, hazard and risk in forest management
- Optimal reserve selection models
- Use of geodata and map services in analyzing spatial data
- The carbon balance of the forest sector: projections under management options and climate scenarios
Deadline for abstract submission: January 10, 2017: http://depts.washington.edu/ssafr17/abstract-submission/