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SSAFR2026: Symposium on Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Decision Making.

May 3rd to 7th, 2026; San Sebastian / Donostia, Basque Country, Spain.

Since 1975, SSAFR has been the premier international forum for forest systems analysis, operations research (OR) and decision science (https://sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu/ssafr2021/previous-editions/).

The SSAFR community has been the primary contributor to almost all key forest management and planning research during the past century, e.g., harvest scheduling, supply chain, forest health, spatial optimization, wildland fire risk management, simulation, stochastic process, and forest and fire economics. The SSAFR community also embraces the opportunities of emerging new data science technologies and the challenges from the global climate changes.

SSAFR is an inclusive and diverse international community that welcomes collaborators and speakers from different countries and backgrounds. SSAFR is also committed to providing a supportive environment for new forest students and researchers. This year the symposium will be organized together with the final conference of the DecisionES project and co-sponsored by IUFRO.

This 21st  symposium will accept abstracts related with the following subjects:

  1. Application of Remote Sensing In Forestry
  2. Forest Modeling
  3. Forest Management and Planning
  4. Forest Transportation and Supply Chain Optimization
  5. Wildfire Risk Simulation, Management, and Decision Support
  6. Forest Health, Invasive Species, and Wildlife Habitat Management
  7. Spatial Optimization
  8. Stochastic Process Simulation and Optimization
  9. Quantitative Forest and Fire Economics
  10. Forest and Watershed Management
  11. Data Science and Machine Learning
  12. Forest Systems Analysis under Climate Change
  13. Ecosystem Restoration Planning

Special attention will be given to some key challenges in forest management, including:

  • Risk Simulation, Management, and Decision Support
  • Ensuring the provision of ecosystem services under changing global conditions
  • Integrated management of forests and hydrological resources
  • Restoration of degraded forests, focusing on global conditions and priority areas

We look forward to welcoming you to San Sebastian. More details will be announced soon.

Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo, Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC, Spain), Chair of the conference.

Jose Borges, Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA, Portugal), Vice-Chair of the conference.