..., it is possible to reduce the displacement of machinery and costs related to construction and maintenance of the road network. In this context, the objective of this study was to evaluate different strategies for aggregating harvesting stands in a forest plantation. We applied two Goal Programming approaches...

...Jacob R. Fooks; Kent D. Messer This research evaluates the potential gains in benefits from using Goal Programming to preserve forestland. Two- and three-dimensional Goal Programming models are developed and applied to data from applicants to the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Legacy Program...

... in countries with obvious errors or missing data, based on empirical functions linking consumption to GDP per capita. Next, a goal-programming model is used to estimate the production data by minimizing the difference between the estimated and the reported production, while keeping input-output coefficients...

...G. C. van Kooten Because forestry accounts for about 10% of British Columbia’s economy and 95% of B.C.’s total land base is publicly owned, forest land use policies are important to the provincial economy. In this paper, goal programming is used to examine the economic impacts of a stakeholders...