Conference

Mon 4th May 2026 - Fri 7th November 2025 in Vienna, Austria

Organizer: EGU General Assembly

Forests and surrounding landscapes are interconnected, and any human activities are integral elements of the socio-ecological system. Forest landscape management usually involves multi-stakeholder interventions to negotiate and implement management actions for local livelihoods, health and well-being. In this context integrated Decision Support Systems (DSS) are needed that help to address ecosystem services at the landscape scale by linking forest, agricultural and landscape interactions. The main aim of this inter- and transdisciplinary session is to identify solutions that use new and innovative methodological approaches in decision support, focusing on holistic planning to enhance sustainable ecosystem management and address ecosystem services, risks, and uncertainties. Computerized decision support systems (DSS) are know to support planning and decision making in semi- and unstructured decision problems. In that context database systems are often linked with analytical models and expert knowledge to take informed and data-driven decisions and allow managers visualizations by various graphical and tabular means. The first generation of DSSs was typically designed to address relatively narrow, well-defined problems for only one ecosystem service (e.g. timber production or increasing the resistance against storms). There has been a trend towards the development of more integrated DSS that simultaneously cover a broader range of ES such as habitat for biodiversity conservation and water provision, but there are still few examples for landscape management. This session invites contributions that bring together the scientific advances in this direction by presenting frameworks off integrated DSS and advandced combinations of methods, models and data to support decison making.

The call for abstracts is open until 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET

More information can be found here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/session/57590