FORSYS 2013 International confererence on DSS for SFM

FORSYS 2013 – International conference on Decision support systems for Sustainable Forest Management

http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/

April 24-26, 2013, Umeå, Sweden

FORSYS 2013 is the final event of the FORSYS COST Action. FORSYS has brought together developers and users of forest DSSs from more than 30 countries. The 2013 international conference should gather expertise from different areas related to forest DSS to form a comprehensive picture of problems and opportunities. The following main areas will be covered:

·  DSS serving different clients (forest policy, participation and multiple objectives, family and company forestry)

· Specific ecosystem services and the role of DSS: (timber and non-timber goods , regulatory services, cultural services)

·  Generic methods for DSS (ontology, optimization, risk assessment)

Invited papers for special issue of Scandinavian. Journal of Forest Research

Key notes ·  Sandor F. Tóth Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Informatics, University of Washington http://www.washington.edu/

·  Katharina Helming: Dr. sc. agr., Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

· Laurent Mermet: Professor of Environmental Management, AgroParisTech

·  Florian Kraxner: Deputy Program Leader of Ecosystems Services and Management Program, IIASA

·  Jose Borges: Associate Professor, Department of Forest Engineering of Instituto Superior de Agronomia of the Technical University of Lisbon

For contacts see http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/contacts.html.