Using modeling approach as a decision support tool in forest management

Climate change increases the risks associated with ecosystems by increasing climatic hazards and their vulnerability. This can be associated with an increase in the vulnerability of human populations, dependent on ecosystem services. In this context of multiple risks, forest socio-ecosystems are an example of this interdependence between climate and biotic changes, functional disruptions of ecosystems and the supply of services for human societies.
Sustainable forest management has long been supported by numerous tools, based among in others on empirical modeling. These tools have reached their limits in terms of efficiency in their support to managers. Now support for sustainable forest management must involve an effort to renew these tools and research, among in others to improve those integrating modeling approaches or conceptualize new ones.