Forest Value Chain Optimization and Sustainability

Forest Value Chain Optimization and Sustainability
Author: Sophie D'Amours
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498704875

This book provides a global perspective on the various issues that the industry has to face as well as to provide some key global strategies that can help coping with those global challenges, such as collaboration, strategic value chain planning, and interdependency analyses. It presents literature reviews, strategic research orientations, assessment of some current key issues, and state-of-the-art methodologies.

Innovation in Forestry

Innovation in Forestry
Author: Gerhard Weiss
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2011
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1845936892

Innovation in Forestry Territorial and Value Chain Relationships Edited by Gerhard Weiss, Davide Pettenella, Pekka Ollonqvist and Bill Slee Innovation is increasingly recognized as a key factor in environmental protection and sustainable development in forestry and forest-based industries. This volume provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for the analysis of innovation processes and policies in a traditional, rural sector as well as presenting empirical analyses of innovation processes from major innovation areas. Innovative solutions are analysed in wood-related value chains, including timber-frame construction, furniture, bio-energy and forest transportation. Territorial services of the forest sector are examined, including various types of forest ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, non-wood products and recreation. Innovation in Forestry is essential reading for researchers and policy makers in forestry and environmental sciences.

Certification's Impacts on Forests, Stakeholders and Supply Chains

Certification's Impacts on Forests, Stakeholders and Supply Chains
Author:
Publisher: IIED
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2001
Genre: Forest management
ISBN: 1899825878

People like forests- they have many emotional and cultural attachments to them. They also like forest products - and need increasing quantities of them. But they often don't like, don't understand, and don't trust what comes in between: forest management, which lies at the interface of public services (biodiversity, watersheds, etc) and private goods (timber, food, etc). Certification was developed to independently verify the quality of forest management, to communicate this to market players, and so to improve market benefits for the products of good management. The growing influence of the Forest Stewardship Council is one of the most striking recent developments in forestry. Certification is increasingly common in all continents. But has it actually improved forest management? Has it created sufficient market incentives? Above all, has it enabled trust to develop between stakeholders, so that they can work together better, to build the institutions required for sustainable forest management? This book is the result of two years' study by IIED and collaborators in several countries: it provides evidence for considerable policy and institutional change as a result of certification, and the beginnings of change in forest and market practice.

Forests, Business and Sustainability

Forests, Business and Sustainability
Author: Rajat Panwar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1317675258

Forests are under tremendous pressure from human uses of all kinds, and one of the most significant threats to their sustainability comes from commercial interests. This book presents a comprehensive examination of the interactions between the forest products sector and the sustainability of forests. It captures the most current sustainability concerns within the forestry sector and various sustainability-oriented initiatives to address these. Experts from around the world analyze interconnected topics including market mechanisms, regulatory mechanisms, voluntary actions, and governance, and outline their effectiveness, potential, and limitations. By presenting a novel overview of the burgeoning field of business sustainability within the forestry sector, this book paves a way forward in understanding what is working, what is not working, and what could potentially work to ensure sustainable business practices within the forestry sector,

Forest and Biomass Harvest and Logistics

Forest and Biomass Harvest and Logistics
Author: Jingxin Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2022-11-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031129466

This book explains forest and woody biomass harvest, harvesting machines, systems, logistics, supply chain management, best management practices, harvest scheduling and carbon sequestration. It also covers applications of harvesting principles in forest and biomass management practices. The book provides an in-depth understanding of functions and applications of current and future harvesting technologies, the unique characteristics of harvesting machine with respect to cost, productivity, and environmental impacts. Special features include harvest machine illustrations and images of field operations, tabular presentations of filed studies of forest operations and detailed modelling processes for forest and biomass harvest logistics and supply chain management. Specifically, the book is designed for students, researchers, educators, and practitioners in the field of forest and biomass harvest and logistics. The book’s contents have been tested in teaching as the Harvesting Forest Product class for undergraduates and graduates in the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources at West Virginia University since 2000. The information contained in this book is a robust reference resource for students who would be future forest and biomass managers, timber contractors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and educators in the fields of forest and biomass operations, engineering, and resource management.

Applications of Location Analysis

Applications of Location Analysis
Author: H. A. Eiselt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319202820

This book, companion to Foundations of Location Analysis (Springer, 2011), highlights some of the applications of location analysis within the spheres of businesses, those that deal with public services and applications that deal with law enforcement and first responders. While the Foundations book reviewed the theory and first contributions, this book describes how different location techniques have been used to solve real problems. Since many real problems comprise multiple objectives, in this book there is more presence of tools from multicriteria decision making and multiple-objective optimization. The section on business applications looks at such problems as locating bank branches, the potential location of a logistics park, sustainable forest management and layout problems in a hospital, a much more difficult type of problem than mere location problems. The section on public services presents chapters on the design of habitats for wildlife, control of forest fires, the location of intelligent sensors along highways for timely emergency response, locating breast cancer screening centers, an economic analysis for the locations of post offices and school location. The final section of the book includes chapters on the well-known problem of locating fire stations, a model for the location of sensors for travel time information, the problem of police districting, locations of jails, location of Coast Guard vessels and finally, a survey of military applications of location analysis throughout different periods of recent history.

Forest Management and Planning

Forest Management and Planning
Author: Pete Bettinger
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 012809706X

Forest Management and Planning, Second Edition, addresses contemporary forest management planning issues, providing a concise, focused resource for those in forest management. The book is intermixed with chapters that concentrate on quantitative subjects, such as economics and linear programming, and qualitative chapters that provide discussions of important aspects of natural resource management, such as sustainability. Expanded coverage includes a case study of a closed canopy, uneven-aged forest, new forest plans from South America and Oceania, and a new chapter on scenario planning and climate change adaptation. - Helps students and early career forest managers understand the problems facing professionals in the field today - Designed to support land managers as they make complex decisions on the ecological, economic, and social impacts of forest and natural resources - Presents updated, real-life examples that are illustrated both mathematically and graphically - Includes a new chapter on scenario planning and climate change adaptation - Incorporates the newest research and forest certification standards - Offers access to a companion website with updated solutions, geographic databases, and illustrations

Spatial Modeling in GIS and R for Earth and Environmental Sciences

Spatial Modeling in GIS and R for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Author: Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2019-01-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128156953

Spatial Modeling in GIS and R for Earth and Environmental Sciences offers an integrated approach to spatial modelling using both GIS and R. Given the importance of Geographical Information Systems and geostatistics across a variety of applications in Earth and Environmental Science, a clear link between GIS and open source software is essential for the study of spatial objects or phenomena that occur in the real world and facilitate problem-solving. Organized into clear sections on applications and using case studies, the book helps researchers to more quickly understand GIS data and formulate more complex conclusions. The book is the first reference to provide methods and applications for combining the use of R and GIS in modeling spatial processes. It is an essential tool for students and researchers in earth and environmental science, especially those looking to better utilize GIS and spatial modeling. - Offers a clear, interdisciplinary guide to serve researchers in a variety of fields, including hazards, land surveying, remote sensing, cartography, geophysics, geology, natural resources, environment and geography - Provides an overview, methods and case studies for each application - Expresses concepts and methods at an appropriate level for both students and new users to learn by example

Optimizing the Primary Forest Products Supply Chain

Optimizing the Primary Forest Products Supply Chain
Author: Jeff D. Hamann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2008
Genre: Business logistics
ISBN:

This thesis is a collection of four submitted manuscripts that present methods to assist forest ecosystem service managers wanting to develop operational sampling, monitoring, and production plans for a set of specific quantifiable ecosystem services, which are formulated as a series of general multi-objective optimization problems. The problems are solved using a heuristic solution technique to determine the best trade-off, efficient, or Pareto frontiers, among the potentially competing and possibly non-commensurate objectives, with the intention that the decision maker(s) will select and implement a single plan from the Pareto frontier. The first manuscript presents the general formulation and solution framework, and demonstrates the method with a problem that has five objectives. The method demonstrates that Pareto frontiers for problems with unknown inputs, many competing objectives, and complex constraints can be analyzed using simple search rules. The second manuscript examines design-based estimation and model-based prediction methods to obtain guesses of unknown inputs, and the resulting outputs, for operational production plans. The results indicate that model-based prediction methods, using simple correlation models, provide benefits by reducing production uncertainties, and thus offer substantial cost savings, or increases in net revenue, when comparison to traditional design-based methods. The third manuscript approximates the Pareto frontier between the maximum information content (i.e. entropy) and the minumum cost for a forest sample, where the results from the sample will be used for many objectives (e.g. prediction, simulation, and optimization). The results depend on the definition of the sample design, but follow similar patterns for all 36 sample designs examined. Finally, the fourth manuscript presents an examination of the Pareto frontier for an operational harvest schedule, using the sample that contains the maximum information content, and the objectives for the operation must satisfy multiple internal and external customers (i.e. production, financial, environmental, logistics, and marketing). By including additional information (i.e. spatial correlation) in the prediction, simulation, and optimization process, these manuscripts demonstrate substantial potential increases in financial objectives (i.e. maximize net revenue, minimize costs), environmental objectives (i.e. maximize unharvested area), materials management objectives (i.e. minimize product degredation), information objectives (i.e. maximum entopy sampling) as well as provide a framework for the objective examination of complex forest ecosystem supply chain problems with multiple objectives.

Forest Certification in Sustainable Development

Forest Certification in Sustainable Development
Author: Walter Smith
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2000-09-27
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1420032704

From recycled products to organic food, the movement to be "environmentally friendly" is now expanding into the forestry field. Recognizing this impact, Home Depot has committed to giving preference to selling "certified wood," proven to come from forests that meet certain biological and social sustainablility standards. Retailers and vendors can o