Metla Project 3521

Forest owners' decision situations and pluralistic decision support

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Duration: 2009-2013   Keywords: Multi-objective forest planning, decision support, non-industrial private forest owners
Research project group: Family forestry and forest policy

Objectives

The project examines the development of interaction practices of practical private forest planning during the last decade and the future development needs of forest planning. In addition, the project will identify the genuine planning problems of private forest owners, which enables development of customer-oriented planning services and products. This can be one way to improve the effectiveness of forest planning. A social network analysis will also be carried out in a project with respect two different decision-making situations: forest owners voluntary nature protection decision and (energy wood) harvesting decision. In addition, the effects of errors in forest inventory data on forest owners’ decision making will be examined. The duration of the project is five year and it ends year 2013.

Project leader: Kurttila, Mikko
The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Joensuu Office, PL 68, FI-80101 JOENSUU, FINLAND
Phone: +358 10 211 3262 Telefax: +358 10 211 2103
E-mail: mikko.kurttila@metla.fi

Other researchers: Haara, Arto, JO (2011), Hujala, Teppo, VA (2009-12), Hyvönen, Pekka, JO (2012), Hänninen, Harri, VA (2010), Kilpeläinen, Harri, JO (2011-12), Pykäläinen, Jouni, JO (2011-12)


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Updated 24.05.2012
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