Scheduling and planning in service systems with goal programming: Literature review

Ş Gür, T Eren - Mathematics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Background: People want to be able to evaluate different kinds of information in a good way.
There are various methods that they develop in such situations. Among the optimization …

Ecosystem services studies in Turkey: A national-scale review

E Başak, NI Cetin, C Vatandaşlar… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The concept of “Ecosystem Services (ES)” has gained global importance since the
1990s. Today its link to sustainable development and human welfare is well documented …

Optimisation in forest management

A Kaya, P Bettinger, K Boston, R Akbulut, Z Ucar… - Current Forestry …, 2016 - Springer
The field of forestry has employed various computer-assisted optimisation approaches since
the early 1960s to address the efficient allocation of resources towards various forest …

Water yield variation with elevation, tree age and density of larch plantation in the Liupan Mountains of the Loess Plateau and its forest management implications

A Tian, Y Wang, AA Webb, Z Liu, J Ma, P Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large scale afforestation mainly for erosion control or timber production and a very strict
logging ban policy in recent decades led to many over-dense stands and remarkable water …

An Ecological-Economic Approach to Assess Impacts of the Expansion of Eucalyptus Plantations in Agroforest Landscapes of Northern Ethiopia

D Abate, JG Borges, S Marques, V Bushenkov - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
The conversion of fertile croplands to Eucalyptus woodlots in Ethiopian highlands, due to its
business attractiveness to smallholders, raises concerns related to food production, water …

A multiple objective methodology for sugarcane harvest management with varying maturation periods

HO Florentino, C Irawan, AF Aliano, DF Jones… - Annals of Operations …, 2018 - Springer
This paper addresses the management of a sugarcane harvest over a multi-year planning
period. A methodology to assist the harvest planning of the sugarcane is proposed in order …

Optimizing Forest-Biomass-Distribution Logistics from a Multi-Level Perspective

Z Stanula, M Wieruszewski, A Zydroń, K Adamowicz - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forest and wood biomass represent a sustainable reservoir of raw materials and energy,
offering a viable alternative to fossil fuels. These resources find extensive use in producing …

Modelling the response of larch growth to age, density, and elevation and the implications for multifunctional management in northwest China

A Tian, Y Wang, AA Webb, P Yu, X Wang… - Journal of Forestry …, 2023 - Springer
Plantations of Rupprecht's larch (Larix principis-rupprechtii) have been widely established in
the drylands of northwest and north China under traditional fast-growing plantation …

Spatial assessment of ecosystem services provisioning changes in a forest-dominated protected area in NE Turkey

C Vatandaslar - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022 - Springer
Forested landscapes offer high provisioning capacities for many ecosystem services (ES),
yet their capabilities may change in time due to multifaceted ES drivers. Therefore …

Assessing the impacts of four alternative management strategies on forest timber and carbon values in northeast China

Y Huang, H Qin, Y Guan - Scandinavian Journal of Forest …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Forest management strategies, reflecting the cognition and the demands of the human
population on forests, have significant effects on the forest structures and functions …