Description: List of Contents.- I Survey.- Why are the uses multiple?.- Modelling ecosystem processes and patterns for multiple-use management.- Descriptive indicators of sustainable forest management.- Discounting in the context of multiple objectives.- Stated and revealed preference analysis: Cost--benefit analysis, democracy and multiple-objective decision-making.- II Multi-Criteria Decision-Making: Theory and Methods.- Choosing between models of choice: On the selection of MCDM planning modes.- Multiple objective linear programming in supporting forest management.- The analytic hierachy process (AHP): Standard version, forestry application and advances.- III Stakeholder Involvement.- Multiple objective optimisation in agro-ecological land use planning.- Public participation in forest management planning supported by multi-criteria decision-making techniques.- IV Diversity Objectives and Option Value.- Managing forests for tree and landscape diversity Part I: Predictions with Markov-chain models.- Managing forests for tree and landscape diversity Part II: Optimisation with Markov decision process model.- Groundwater protection and forest management -- an option value analysis.- V Spatial Objectives.- How to integrate spatial objectives into private forest planning in Finland.- A spatial optimisation model for wetlands restoration planning integrating GIS and linear programming.- A cellular automaton approach to optimising the choice of tree species.- VI Cost Efficiency.- A method for comparison of efficiency scores: A case study of Danish dairy farms.- Biological insecticides contra insect growth regulators in Polish forestry -- a financial cost-benefit analysis.- List of Authors.

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