AFM Toolbox

Has description	The AFM Toolbox assist in forest management under climate change, provides background information, approaches and principles to adaptive management, interactive tools to support planning, examples across Europe and FAQs. Adaptive management is a structured, iterative management process to cope with uncertainty. The idea is that management actions are taken in a way (PLAN, ACT) that indications of an eventual failure to meet the objectives are identified early in course of periodic evaluations (MONITOR, EVALUATE) and thus corrective (i.e. adaptive) measures can be taken. Hence, adaptive management is a targeted forward experimenting approach to manage natural resources.
Has modelling scope	Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Climate change
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context	Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Stand level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension	Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has forest management goal	biodiversity evaluation, biomass estimation, carbon sequestration, climate change impact
Supports tree species	Norway Spruce, Silver Fir, European Beech, European Larch, White Pine, Black Pine, Oak, Hornbeam, ...
Supports silvicultural regime	even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration

Has typical use case
Has user profile	private legal entities (cooperatives / corporations / trusts / partnerships / condominium associations), public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests)
Has country
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users	<=100
Has number of real-life applications	<=10
Has utilisation in education	used by students
Has research project reference
Has tool dissemination

Has decision support techniques	AFM Toolbox.Decision support techniques

Has knowledge management processes	AFM Toolbox.Knowledge management process

Has support for social participation	AFM Toolbox.Support of social participation

Has DSS development	AFM Toolbox.Description of DSS development

Has website	https://www.afm-toolbox.net/
Has online demo
Has manual	No
Has technical documentation	Yes
Has reference	The available casestudy regions are retrieved from two projects MOTIVE and ARANGE. Werner Rammer, Christian Schauflinger, Harald Vacik, João H.N. Palma, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo, José G. Borges & Manfred J. Lexer (2013): A web-based ToolBox approach to support adaptive forest management under climate change, Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2013.851277

Has full name	Adaptive Forest Management Toolboy
Has acronym	AFM Toolbox
Has wiki contact person	Harald Vacik
Has wiki contact e-mail	harald.vacik@boku.ac.at

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