%0 Research article
%T Defining forest owner’s forest-management goals by means of a thematic interview in interactive forest planning
%A Pykäläinen, Jouni
%D 2000
%J Silva Fennica
%V 34
%N 1
%R doi:10.14214/sf.644
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/644
%X Numerical optimization may not be the best way to launch an interactive  planning process. The forest owner may not be able to identify precise  management goals, as required in numerical optimization, for his forest.  The owner may also think that it is impossible to express  forest-management goals numerically. Due to these reasons, thematic  interview was tested as an introductory method in interactive planning  in several actual planning cases. It was observed that these interviews  helped the owners in outlining their forest-management goals, and they  offered an appropriate framework for defining these goals. It was also  noticed that the goals defined in the course of the interviews could be  included in the planning model in a way understood and accepted by the  owners, and the goals defined could be fulfilled.