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Title: | A branch-and-bound procedure for forest harvest scheduling problems addressing aspects of habitat availability |
Authors: | Neto,T Constantino,M Martins,I João Pedro Pedroso |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Abstract: | In the literature, the most widely referred approaches regarding forest harvesting scheduling problems involving environmental concerns have typically addressed constraints on the maximum clear-cut area. Nevertheless, the solutions arising from those approaches in general display a loss of habitat availability. Such loss endangers the survival of many wild species. This study presents a branch-and-bound procedure designed to find good feasible solutions, in a reasonable time, to forest harvest scheduling problems with constraints on the clear-cut area and habitat availability. Two measures are applied for the habitat availability constraints: the area of all habitats and the connectivity between them. In each branch of the branch-and-bound tree, a partial solution leads to two children nodes, corresponding to the cases of harvesting or not harvesting a given stand in a given period. Pruning is based on constraint violations or unreachable objective values. Computational results are reported. |
URI: | http://repositorio.inesctec.pt/handle/123456789/5622 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/itor.12003 |
metadata.dc.type: | article Publication |
Appears in Collections: | CEGI - Articles in International Journals |
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