Meetings

Conference

Mon 30th June 2025 - Fri 4th July 2025 in Porto Seguro, Brasil

Symposium on Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Decision

Organizer: Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez, Universidade de Sao Paulo. Chair

This symposium, sponsored by IUFRO, the Systems Analysis community, and DecisionES project coordinators, provides a forum for forest systems analysis, operations research (OR), and decision science. It will feature two main types of sessions: technical and practical. The technical presentations will focus on forest management and planning research, covering topics such as harvest scheduling, supply chain management, forest health, spatial optimization, wildland fire risk management, simulation, stochastic processes, and forest and fire economics. Meanwhile, the practical sessions will showcase studies on ecosystem service provision, global change impacts, degraded forest restoration, and more.

more information can be found here: DecisionES_BR2025 – Symposium on Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Decision Making

The conference organizers invite collaborators and speakers from diverse countries and backgrounds. This event will be held in conjunction with the annual coordination meeting of the DecisionES project and IUFRO Unit 4.04.00 (Forest Management Planning).

Special attention will be given to some key challenges in forest management, including:

  • Ensuring the provision of ecosystem services under changing global conditions
  • Integrated management of forests and hydrological resources
  • Restoration of degraded forests, focusing on global conditions and priority areas
  • Sustainability of fast-growing forest plantations for industrial purposes under climate change

This  conference welcomes abstracts on the following subjects:

  1. Application of Remote Sensing In Forestry
  2. Forest Modeling
  3. Forest Management and Planning
  4. Forest Transportation and Supply Chain Optimization
  5. Wildfire Risk Simulation, Management, and Decision Support
  6. Forest Health, Invasive Species, and Wildlife Habitat Management
  7. Spatial Optimization
  8. Stochastic Process Simulation and Optimization
  9. Quantitative Forest and Fire Economics
  10. Forest and Watershed Management
  11. Data Science and Machine Learning
  12. Forest Systems Analysis under Climate Change
  13. Ecosystem Restoration Planning