A Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers

The conflicts that arise between natural resources consumption and the desire to preserve them make the multicriteria decision theory necessary. Brazil, one of the 10 largest timber producers globally, uses optimization models that represent the growth of forests integrated with decision support sys...

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Autores principales:	Silvana Ribeiro Nobre, Luis Diaz-Balteiro, Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	multicriteria decision making forest management decision support system collaborative decision making compromise programming Plant ecology QK900-989
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:17c530d6a85e4bd483a54f7ae5740f812021-11-25T17:37:46ZA Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers10.3390/f121114811999-4907https://doaj.org/article/17c530d6a85e4bd483a54f7ae5740f812021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/11/1481https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4907The conflicts that arise between natural resources consumption and the desire to preserve them make the multicriteria decision theory necessary. Brazil, one of the 10 largest timber producers globally, uses optimization models that represent the growth of forests integrated with decision support systems. Brazilian forest plantation managers often face conflicts when continuously seeking efficiency gains (higher productivity at lower costs) and efficacy (higher profits with minimum social and environmental impacts). Managers of leading producing countries on timber, pulp, and fiberboard constantly interact to fine-tune industry processing demands vis-a-vis the demands of highly productive fast-growing forest plantations. The decision process in such cases seeks a compromise that accommodates short-term industry productivity optimization and long-term forestry production capacity. This paper aims to apply a forest management decision support system (FMDSS) to a case study that represents the challenges that industrial plantations in Brazil usually face. A vertically integrated pulp company situation was simulated to provide a real scenario. In this scenario, forest managers tend to shorten the rotations due to Brazil’s usually high-interest rates; meanwhile, industrial managers tend to ask for longer ones due to the positive correlation between age and wood density. <i>Romero<sup>®</sup></i><b>,</b> a Forest Management Decision Support System, developed by following the multi-criteria decision theory, was used to process the case study. Expressly, the hypothesis that mill managers initially have, that older ages rotation could improve mill production, was not confirmed. Moreover, mill managers lean towards changes in the short term, while the case study shows that changes in rotation size and genetic material take time, and decisions have to be made involving both interests: forest and mill managers.Silvana Ribeiro NobreLuis Diaz-BalteiroLuiz Carlos Estraviz RodriguezMDPI AGarticlemulticriteria decision makingforest management decision support systemcollaborative decision makingcompromise programmingPlant ecologyQK900-989ENForests, Vol 12, Iss 1481, p 1481 (2021)
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description	The conflicts that arise between natural resources consumption and the desire to preserve them make the multicriteria decision theory necessary. Brazil, one of the 10 largest timber producers globally, uses optimization models that represent the growth of forests integrated with decision support systems. Brazilian forest plantation managers often face conflicts when continuously seeking efficiency gains (higher productivity at lower costs) and efficacy (higher profits with minimum social and environmental impacts). Managers of leading producing countries on timber, pulp, and fiberboard constantly interact to fine-tune industry processing demands vis-a-vis the demands of highly productive fast-growing forest plantations. The decision process in such cases seeks a compromise that accommodates short-term industry productivity optimization and long-term forestry production capacity. This paper aims to apply a forest management decision support system (FMDSS) to a case study that represents the challenges that industrial plantations in Brazil usually face. A vertically integrated pulp company situation was simulated to provide a real scenario. In this scenario, forest managers tend to shorten the rotations due to Brazil’s usually high-interest rates; meanwhile, industrial managers tend to ask for longer ones due to the positive correlation between age and wood density. <i>Romero<sup>®</sup></i><b>,</b> a Forest Management Decision Support System, developed by following the multi-criteria decision theory, was used to process the case study. Expressly, the hypothesis that mill managers initially have, that older ages rotation could improve mill production, was not confirmed. Moreover, mill managers lean towards changes in the short term, while the case study shows that changes in rotation size and genetic material take time, and decisions have to be made involving both interests: forest and mill managers.
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author	Silvana Ribeiro Nobre Luis Diaz-Balteiro Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez
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title	A Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers
title_short	A Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers
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title_fullStr	A Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers
title_full_unstemmed	A Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers
title_sort	compromise programming application to support forest industrial plantation decision-makers
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A Compromise Programming Application to Support Forest Industrial Plantation Decision-Makers

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