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| SSAFR2026 and Annual DecisionES final Conference: Symposium on system Analysis in Forest Resources SSAFR2026. During 17th to 21st May 2026, San Sebastian / Donostia. https://decisiones.ctfc.cat/SSAFR2026/  The SSAFR2026 took place May 17-21, 2026, in San Sebastian / Donostia, Basque Country, Spain. It involved 109 participants from 18 countries in Europe, Africa, America, Oceania and Asia. Its program encompassed 6 keynote presentations by Drs. Bruce Bare and Sándor Toth focusing on the history of SSAFR and on an overview of forest planning as a value of information problem, Dr. Mikael Ronqvist focusing on the use of advanced analytics in forest logistics planning, Dr. Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo focusing on the results of the EU Horizon 2020 project ‘FIRE-RES - Innovative technologies and socio-ecological-economic solutions for fire resilient territories in Europe’, Dr. Jules Comeau presenting a practical stochastic optimization perspective for planning forests for uncertain futures and Dr. Marie Fillon, who presented the Remsoft approach to application of optimization analytics for solving modern-day forestry planning challenges. It encompassed further a round table with Victor Resco and Paco Castañares on extreme wildfire events, two sessions led by IUFRO Unit 4.04.07 on Risk Analysis and 84 oral presentations organized into 24 sessions focusing on themes such as a) Forest Modelling and Climate Change, b) Landscape Resilience & Ecosystem Impacts, c) Risk Assessment & Large-scale Planning, d) Ecosystem services, e) Landscape Approaches & Scenario Analysis, f) Case Studies & Cross-cutting Applications, g) Simulators and Tools/DSSs, h) Wildfire Resilience, i) Wildfire Suppression, j) Silviculture and Fire, k) Restoration and biodiversity conservation, l) Risk analysis, m) Remote Sensing & Spatial analysis, n) Stochastic approaches, o) Harvest scheduling and p) DecisionES cross-cutting applications. The conference worked well as a meeting place for experts on system analysis in a broad sense. It brought together researchers at very different stages of their careers, from PhD students to researchers taking part earlier in the SSAFR series, and from different continents. The arrangements in San Sebastian were ideal for the conference and the 4 days of scientific work included a much appraised field trip to a 530 hectares public forest owned by the Oiartzun Town Council and managed by the Forestry Service of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, which is located within the Aiako Harria Natural Park, also a Natura 2000 Site. The forest hosts the largest pollarding beech forest in the Basque Country, covering around 250 ha and it contains one of the oldest conifer forest plantations in Gipuzkoa, on slopes with a high risk of erosion and at the headwaters of a river basin. The SSAFR presenters were welcome to submit their research to be published in the Forest Monitor (https://forestsmonitor.com/) edited by Dr. Rafal Chudy at rafal@forestsmonitor.com) Photographs: Participants at the SSAFR2026 in San Sebastian / Donostia, Basqeu Country, Spain, May 17-21, 2026 (photo by Alejandro … )  For more information see the conference report. |
| Past Events: 2025 |
International Conference: DecisionES_BR2025: Symposium on Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Decision Making. June 30th to July 4th, 2025; Porto Seguro, Brasil.  Watch on YouTube all presentations |
| Past events: 2024 |
| Workshop: Occupancy modelling for forest sciences. To be held in Solsona, 28th to 30th October 2024. |
| Past events: 2024 |
SSAFR2024 and Annual DecisionES meeting: During 13th to 17th May 2024 was held the 20t symposium on system Analysis in Forest Resources SSAFR2024. See report SSAFR2024 and DecisionES Mid Term Meeting. |
| Past events: 2023 |
| Reserarch seminar: and Annual DecisionES meeting: During 15th May 2023 was held the research seminar "The state-of-the-art of forest management models, methods and decision support systems – the DecisionES perspective.". |
| Past events: 2022 |
| SSAFR2022 and Annual DecisionES meeting: The 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources ( SSAFR 2022), July 24 to 27, 2022; Estes Park, Colorado, USA See report SSAFR2022 |