The mission of SLU is to pursue knowledge of biological natural resources and their sustainable utilization through education and research, as well as environmental monitoring and assessment. Its activities are characterized by a strong link between education and research of high international standards, and that these activities take place in close collaboration with parties in the sectors concerned. The Faculty of Forest Sciences is one of four faculties within SLU. A total of 3 200 people are employed at the University, whereof close to 500 at the Faculty of Forest Sciences. The Forest Management Planning Group specializes in the multi-resource management of forests. The group is especially interested in long-term planning regarding the development of forest landscapes under different management regimes. Mathematical models of planning problems are constructed, combining timber production and both environmental and social values, which are integrated in studies of participatory planning processes. The group has played a leading role in the creation of one of the most advanced forest planning systems in Europe, the Heureka system. In ARANGE SLU main focus is within Data and case study implementation (WP1) and Improved planning and economic valuation (WP4). In WP1 SLU contributes with a case study in the Scandinavian range focusing on multiple uses of forests, particularly the interaction between forestry and reindeer herding.
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Persons involved:
Ola Eriksson
Prof. Dr., is trained in forestry and economics and has been professor of forest management planning since 1995. Meanwhile, he has completed 5 PhDs and 5 licentiate degrees. He is chair of the COST Action FORSYS on forest decision support systems.
Tomas Lämås
Associate Professor, has been Program Director during the 9 years of the Heureka research program. He also was a member of a Module Management Team of the EC FP6 Integrated project EFORWOOD.
Peder Wikström
Dr, is in his research focusing on forest management planning, specially stand and forest level management analysis. He has a long experience in developing forestry decision support systems designed for handling complex models and he has a special interest in optimization models.
Karin Öhman
Associate Professor, is in her research focusing on long term forest planning for a forestry that takes consideration to more than just timber production and is in her work using methods for multi-criteria analysis. She has also long experience of optimizing spatial forest planning problems.
Erik Wilhelmsson
Dr, is lecturer in forest management planning and besides teaching he is performing research on goals stated by non-industrial private forest owners and on planning procedures for this owner category. He has also experience from research on the interaction between forestry and reindeer herding.
Eva-Maria Nordström
Dr, works on developing and testing forest planning approaches for situations with conflicting values and multiple stakeholders. She has experience of using multiple criteria decision analysis as a tool for participatory forest planning.
