title: Sustainability of forest management plans: a discrete goal programming approach.
abstract: Let us consider i = 1, 2,...n alternative forest plans to be evaluated according to j = 1, 2,...m indicators of sustainability. An expert or panel of experts suggests a set of targets or desirable levels of achievement for the m indicators of sustainability considered. Within this context, an important problem is to determine the system with a higher level of achievement with respect to the targets attached by the expert to the m indicators. A natural extension of this problem involves determining a ranking of the n systems considered. A general procedure based on discrete goal programming is proposed to address these problems. The methodology is applied in a case study of a Spanish forest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forest Economics and Management, Forestry School, Technical University of Madrid, E.T.S., Ingenieros de Montes, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. ldbalteiro@montes.upm.es
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Diaz-Balteiro
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romero
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D016468:Forestry; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013030:Spain; D014197:Trees / Q000254:growth & development