C-Plan

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Has flag	N/A

Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	C-Plan
Has acronym	C-Plan
Has wiki contact person	Isidora Dabic
Has wiki contact e-mail	isidora.dabic@boku.ac.at

Software identification

Has software	C-Plan.Software

Description

Has description	The C-plan conservation planning system: Origins, applications, and possible futures. Work on the development of C-Plan began in 1995. The idea of an interactive software system to present spatial options for conservation management arose from previous work on irreplaceability in the early 1990s (Pressey 1992, 1999; Pressey et al. 1993, 1994b) (Chapter 2). At that time, this research on irreplaceability added a new dimension to the problem of selecting indicative sets of sites to achieve quantitative targets for features such as vegetation types or species (the set covering problem, Camm et al. 1996). The basic ingredients for the set covering problem are: (a) planning units, the sites to be assessed and compared as potential conservation areas, (b) maps of biodiversity features, (c) a target for each feature (e.g. number of hectares of each vegetation type and number of locality records for each species), and (d) a data matrix listing the extent or occurrence of each feature in each planning unit (see Chapter 3). Using these same ingredients, irreplaceability was conceived and implemented as a solution to an important limitation of reserve selection software at the time. The limitation was that any selected set of sites required to achieve targets is usually only one of the many possible sets, all of which differ to some extent in their composition and configuration of individual sites. Therefore, while a single set of sites was, and remains, a useful indication of the requirements for achieving all targets, it provides no information on the relative importance of unselected sites for achieving targets.
Has modelling scope	Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Social indicators
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context	Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension	Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has forest management goal	conservation
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile	forest owners associations, private legal entities (cooperatives / corporations / trusts / partnerships / condominium associations), public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests), national forest administration
Has country	Australia
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users	N/A
Has number of real-life applications	N/A
Has utilisation in education	N/A
Has research project reference
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	C-Plan.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	C-Plan.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	C-Plan.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	C-Plan.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43525660_The_C-plan_conservation_planning_system_Origins_applications_and_possible_futures
Has online demo
Has manual	No
Has technical documentation	No
Has reference	https://www.academia.edu/22028462/The_C_Plan_conservation_planning_system_origins_applications_and_possible_futures?auto=download