Presentation
The DecisionES 2025 Symposium, hosted in Porto Seguro, Brazil, gathered over one hundred professionals and scientific experts in forest management, operations research (OR), and decision science. Set in an area recognized for its rich natural and historical heritage, the symposium provides an interdisciplinary platform for in-depth discussions on decision-making processes related to sustainable forest management and ecosystem service provision.
Organized with the support of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), institutions specialized in systems analysis, and two collaborative initiatives on Decision Support for the Supply of Ecosystem Services under Global Change — the DecisionES EU (supported by the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Project #101007950) and DecisionES BR (supported by FAPESP Project # 2021/00833-9) — the event fosters collaboration and knowledge exchange among international researchers and practitioners.
The symposium was structured around two primary session types: technical and practical. Technical sessions address research advancements in forest management planning, covering topics such as harvest scheduling, supply chain optimization, forest health management, spatial optimization, wildland fire risk management, simulation and stochastic processes, and forest economics. Practical sessions feature applied case studies concerning ecosystem services, impacts of global changes, and strategies for restoring degraded forests.
DecisionES 2025 emphasized critical contemporary challenges, including the sustainability of ecosystem services under climate change, integrated forest and watershed management, restoration of degraded forest areas, and sustainable management of fast-growing industrial plantations.
This publication compiles abstracts of presentations delivered between July 1st and July 3rd, 2025, covering the following themes:
- Remote Sensing Applications in Forestry;
- Forest Modeling;
- Forest Management and Planning;
- Forest Transportation and Supply Chain Optimization;
- Wildfire Risk Simulation, Management, and Decision Support;
- Forest Health, Invasive Species, and Wildlife Habitat Management;
- Spatial Optimization;
- Stochastic Process Simulation and Optimization;
- Quantitative Forest and Fire Economics;
- Forest and Watershed Management;
- Data Science and Machine Learning;
- Forest Systems Analysis under Climate Change;
- Ecosystem Restoration Planning.
The abstracts published in this document collectively represent the symposium's significant contributions toward advancing forest systems analysis and decision-making practices.
Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez (University of São Paulo - USP)
Silvana Ribeiro Nobre (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM)
Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo (Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya - CTFC)
Série Técnica IPEF
v. 27, n. 49, p. 1-43, july 2025
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