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2013

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Empirical Guidelines For Forest Management Decision Support Systems Based On The Past Experiences Of The Expert’S Community, A. F. Marques, A. Ficko, A. Kangas, C. Rosset, F. Ferriti, J. Rasinmaki, T. Packalen, Sean N. Gordon Jan 2013

Empirical Guidelines For Forest Management Decision Support Systems Based On The Past Experiences Of The Expert’S Community, A. F. Marques, A. Ficko, A. Kangas, C. Rosset, F. Ferriti, J. Rasinmaki, T. Packalen, Sean N. Gordon

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

Aim of the study: Decision support systems for forest management (FMDSS) have been developed world wide to account for a broad range of forest ecosystems, management goals and organizational frameworks (e.g. the wiki page of the FORSYS project reports 62 existing FMDSSs from 23 countries). The need to enhance the collaboration among this diverse community of developers and users fostered the rise of new group communication processes that could capture useful knowledge from past experiences in order to efficiently provide it to new FMDSS development efforts. Material and methods: This paper presents and tests an exploratory process aiming to identify …