Decision Methods for Forest Resource Management

San Diego, CA; London, UK: Academic Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo with glossy green, blue and black pictorial boards; xvii, 439 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Near fine, clean and tight. Hardcover. ISBN: 0121413608

"Readership: Forestry professionals and graduate students in forestry and natural resource management, as well as forestry business practitioners, university and government foresters, and libraries at institutions with strong programs in forestry and related programs."--BOOK JACKET

Contents: Introduction. Principles of linear programming: formulations. Principles of linear programming: solutions. Even-aged forest management: a first model. Area- and volume-control management with linear programming. A dynamic model of the even-aged forest. Economic objectives and environmental policies for even-aged forests. Managing the uneven-aged forest with linear programming. Economic and environmental management of uneven-aged forests. Multiple objectives management with goal progamming. Forest resource programming models with interger variables. Project management with the critical path method (CPM) and the project evaluation and review technique (PERT). Multistage decision making with dynamic progamming. Simulation of uneven-aged stand management. Simulation of even-aged forest management. Projecting forest landscape and income under risk with Markov chains. Optimizing forest income and biodiversity with Markov decision processes. Analysis of forest resource investments. Econometric analysis and forecasting of forest product markets. More Information: Table of contents. Publisher description.