Operations research economic planning and decision models : how can international co-operation help administration and decision making in forest enterprises

Peyron J, . (2000) Operations research economic planning and decision models : how can international co-operation help administration and decision making in forest enterprises. [Proceedings Paper]

As in most of the research fields international co-operation is essential to improve the grounding in decision making relative to forest enterprises. The general reasons underlying this statement are probably the same in each part of sciences and refer to the similarities between questions raised in different countries to the complexity of the real world in comparison with available analysis methods and models to the weakness of means allocated to research beside the hugeness of the task and to the continuous change of social demand that requires to solve permanently new problems. Obviously after they are brought back to the administration and management of forest enterprises these items are worth being commented. Forest management has been developed at the international level for about three centuries. France Germany and Austria have played a major role at the beginning. Methods elaborated in these countries have then been exported to the rest of the world where they have been adapted to other situations and supplemented with new tools exported in their turn and so on. Thus international co-operation is an historical fact. Today there is still a more favourable context because common international issues have been highlighted such as habitat conservation programmes carbon sink issues criteria and indicators for suistainable forest management ecocertification and labelling environmental accounting. Decision making is a complex subject that uses advanced developments in operations research economic theory statistics and even computer science. According to this complexicity any co-operation is essential to progress not only interdisciplinary one but also international one. This is all the more true that many new methods are nowadays available that some fundamental economic concepts are not yet quite clear e.g. discount rate value that risk and uncertainty are involved in the processes under study that environmental considerations have to be integrated with economic ones that biological bases become more and more important in economic models. It must be recognised that ecology on the hand and forest products on the other hand concentrate most of attentions on them. Conversely only a few researchers work on forest economics in each country. In such a context international co-operation gives the opportunity to gather complementary approaches on the same subject to create synergies between researchers to broader the scope under consideration to generalise existing methods and in a dynamic perspective to increase the chance when a new problem occurs somewhere to find first features in another country.

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As in most of the research fields international co-operation is essential to improve the grounding in decision making relative to forest enterprises. The general reasons underlying this statement are probably the same in each part of sciences and refer to the similarities between questions raised in different countries to the complexity of the real world in comparison with available analysis methods and models to the weakness of means allocated to research beside the hugeness of the task and to the continuous change of social demand that requires to solve permanently new problems. Obviously after they are brought back to the administration and management of forest enterprises these items are worth being commented. Forest management has been developed at the international level for about three centuries. France Germany and Austria have played a major role at the beginning. Methods elaborated in these countries have then been exported to the rest of the world where they have been adapted to other situations and supplemented with new tools exported in their turn and so on. Thus international co-operation is an historical fact. Today there is still a more favourable context because common international issues have been highlighted such as habitat conservation programmes carbon sink issues criteria and indicators for suistainable forest management ecocertification and labelling environmental accounting. Decision making is a complex subject that uses advanced developments in operations research economic theory statistics and even computer science. According to this complexicity any co-operation is essential to progress not only interdisciplinary one but also international one. This is all the more true that many new methods are nowadays available that some fundamental economic concepts are not yet quite clear e.g. discount rate value that risk and uncertainty are involved in the processes under study that environmental considerations have to be integrated with economic ones that biological bases become more and more important in economic models. It must be recognised that ecology on the hand and forest products on the other hand concentrate most of attentions on them. Conversely only a few researchers work on forest economics in each country. In such a context international co-operation gives the opportunity to gather complementary approaches on the same subject to create synergies between researchers to broader the scope under consideration to generalise existing methods and in a dynamic perspective to increase the chance when a new problem occurs somewhere to find first features in another country.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Additional Information:	Summary only En
AGROVOC Term:	FOREST MANAGEMENT
AGROVOC Term:	FORESTS
AGROVOC Term:	OPERATIONS RESEARCH
AGROVOC Term:	INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
AGROVOC Term:	ADMINISTRATION
AGROVOC Term:	DECISION MAKING
AGROVOC Term:	RESEARCH
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Norfaezah Khomsan
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:27
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16533

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