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Decision Support for Forest Management pp 11–21Cite as

Forest Management Planning

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Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems ((MAFE,volume 30))

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Forest management planning is a rather unique planning situation. In this chapter, we describe the special features of forest planning. Forest owners and managers need to take decisions which can deal with a variety of spatial and temporal scales, from one stand and short time period up to the national level and very long time horizons. Forest management decisions also have an impact on many ecosystem services. Therefore, decision-making must be able to ensure the economic, ecological and social sustainability of forestry. In this chapter, we present a historical outline of developing a methodology for forest planning and the evolving definitions of sustainable forestry. Moreover, we present the requirements that the contemporary understanding of sustainable forest management sets to the development of forest planning methodology.

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  1. Economics and Society, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Joensuu, Finland

    Annika Kangas

  2. Bio-based Business and Industry, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Joensuu, Finland

    Mikko Kurttila

  3. Bio-based Business and Industry, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland

    Teppo Hujala

  4. Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Kyle Eyvindson

  5. School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Jyrki Kangas

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Kangas, A., Kurttila, M., Hujala, T., Eyvindson, K., Kangas, J. (2015). Forest Management Planning. In: Decision Support for Forest Management. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23522-6_2

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