WG4: DSS INTEGRATION

The work of WG4 will focus both on the assessment of DSS designed to accommodate various ES, user demands, stakeholder’s requirements, national and international (particularly at EU level) policies / legislations and data requirement in management planning. It will emphasize the assessment and combination of approaches to address multiple objectives and sustainability, multiple ownership, multiple temporal and spatial scales through multifunctional DSS. Further, it will address emerging technological developments and functionalities of DSS (interoperability, hybridization, cloud computing, new OR techniques etc) in forest landscape management planning. Finally, it will support the integration of data, methods and models for the analysis of the complex interactions of forest management at the landscape level, considering the needs and requirements of stakeholders.