This paper is a comprehensive review of spatial forest-planning initiative that has been
carried out in forest-management planning over the last 2 decades. It describes, first of all …

Operations research (OR) has helped people to understand and manage agricultural and
forestry resources during the last 40 years. We analyzed its use to assess the past …

Connectivity requirements are a common component of forest planning models, with
important examples arising in wildlife habitat protection. In harvest scheduling models, one …

The urgent desire to relieve the pressure of dependence on petroleum in energy industry
and the growing demand for protection of our environment stimulate the researches and …

Forest ecosystem management often requires spatially explicit planning because the spatial
arrangement of harvests has become a critical economic and environmental concern …

We survey three integer-programming approaches for solving the area restriction model for
harvest scheduling. We describe and analyze each of these approaches in detail …

Spatial and temporal scheduling of forest management activities is becoming increasingly
important due to recent developments in environmental regulations, goals and policies. A …

Spatial optimization and agent-based modeling present two distinct approaches that have
been implemented in forest management research for incorporating the objectives of …

Adjacency constraints along with even flow harvest constraints are important in long term
forest planning. Simulated annealing (SA) is previously successfully applied when …

In the last two decades forest planning and management has become very much focused on
spatially oriented decisions, due to the introduction of spatial details, such as road building …