1st Edition

Forestry Applications

Edited By Gregory Paradis Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

In 2012, a Forestry Special Interest Group (FSIG) was founded within the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). Besides a general commitment to promoting the application of operational research (OR) to forest management and forest products industry problems, the FSIG has two concrete mandates: organizing the forestry cluster at the annual CORS conference, and managing the editorial process... Read more

Introduction  1. Centralized supply chain planning model for multiple forest companies  2. Benefits of inter-firm relationships: application to the case of a five sawmills and one paper mill supply chain  3. Advances in profit-driven order promising for make-to-stock environments – a case study with a Canadian softwood lumber manufacturer  4. Analysis of uncontrollable supply effects on a co-production demand-driven wood remanufacturing mill with alternative processes  5. Development of a threat index to manage timber production on flammable forest landscapes subject to spatial harvest constraints  6. A model approach to include wood properties in log sorting and transportation planning

Biography

Gregory Paradis is a forest engineer working on linking forest ecosystem management and forest products supply chain planning. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia, Canada.