Behavioral Modelling in a Decision Support System

Forests

Francesca Rinaldi²  Ragnar Jonsson²  Ola Sallnäs²  Renats Trubins³  Thomas J. Straka¹ 

[1] European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Forest Resources and Climate Unit, Via E. Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra, Italy;;European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Forest Resources and Climate Unit, Via E. Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra, Italy; E-Mails:;Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU, Sundsvägen 3, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden; E-Mail:

关键词: forest owner;    forest development;    timber supply;    DSS;   

DOI  :  10.3390/f6020311

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Considering the variety of attitudes, objectives and behaviors characterizing forest owners is crucial for accurately assessing the impact of policy and market drivers on forest resources. A serious shortcoming of existing pan-European Decision Support Systems (DSS) is that they do not account for such heterogeneity, consequently disregarding the effects that this might have on timber supply and forest development. Linking a behavioral harvesting decision model—Expected Value Asymmetries (EVA)—to a forest resource dynamics model—European Forestry Dynamics Model (EFDM)—we provide an example of how forest owner specific characterization can be integrated in a DSS. The simulation results indicate that the approach holds promise as regards accounting for forest owner behavior in simulations of forest resources development. Hence, forest owner heterogeneity makes the distribution of forestland on owner types non-trivial, as it affects harvesting intensity and, subsequently, inter-temporal forest development.

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