July 2013 - July 2015

SADRI
Models and Decision Support Systems for Adressing Risk and Uncertainty in Forest Planning.

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University of Lisbon_ISA Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA)

University of Lisbon_FCUL Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências (FCUL)

University of Evora_UE Universidade de Evora (UE)

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Participant 2: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências (FFC/FC/UL)

• Main Tasks: Research, mainly participating in WP2.
• Address: Campo Grande - Edificio C7 -1º Piso. 1749-016 Lisboa
• Website: www.fc.ul.pt

General Information

The FFCUL (Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, FCUL) is a private non-profit organization, created in 1993 as an initiative of FCUL, to promote and facilitate scientific research, technology and development services to society, and to organize qualified human resources training and consulting expertise and knowledge dissemination. FFCUL acts as the front institution for scientific collaboration of multiple research groups. Many of R&D activities are developed with international teams and with both international and national funding. FFCUL acts as the contractual and administrative authority on behalf of scientific research units or organizations and their investigators.

Main research areas

The department of Forest Resource Management holds key competences in the area of forest management, especially relating to the development of methodologies for long range planning and the development of decision support tools within that area. Of special significance is the development of optimisation methods for long range planning of forest landscapes involving spatial aspect, participatory process and integration of such methods into forest DSS. The department is expertise in formulating and solving spatial problems for forest landscapes in long term planning. Especially attention has been paid to the use of exact optimisation method, as compared to heuristics. The Department of Forest Resource Management has extensive experience in the development and use of forest DSS. Over the last 10 years a multi disciplinary project has developed a new generation of DSS for Swedish forestry (the old system was also developed at SLU and was just on about half the forest area of Sweden for long range planning).

Key Persons

Dr Miguel Constatino, professor in operations research. His main area of research is linear programming and mixed integer programming models. He has published articles applying operations research to forestry problems.