Landscape planning and modeling

Background

Integration of society needs into the forest planning process is the new forest management paradigm. However, besides challenges in solving complex planning problem’s, which are numerically in nature, there are barriers in expressing various aspects of the forest with objective values. Therefore, simulations or factorial experiments are used to supplement or provide a hint on how the landscape could respond to society demands.

Objective

Understanding the landscape dynamics from economic, ecologic and social perspective

Software

Individual tree harvest scheduler

Publications

• Strimbu, B.M. and Paun, M. 2012. Sensitivity of forest plan value to parameters of simulated annealingCanadian Journal of Forest Research 48(1): 28-38
• Strimbu, B.M. and Innes, J.L. (2012) Framework for assessing the impact of human activities on the environment: the impact of forest harvesting and petroleum drilling on habitat of moose (Alces alces) and marten (Martens americana) Biodiversity and Conservation 21(4): 933-955
• Strimbu, B.M. and Innes, J.L. (2011) An analytical platform for cumulative impact assessment based on multiple futures: the impact of petroleum drilling and forest harvesting on moose (Alces alces) and marten (Martes americana) habitats in northeastern British Columbia. Journal of Environmental Management 92(7): 1740-1752

• Strimbu, B.M., Innes, J.L. and Strimbu, V.F. (2010) A deterministic harvest scheduler using perfect bin-packing theorem. European Journal of Forest Research 129-5:961-974