OPTIONS
Develop Sustainable Land Management Strategies for your Land Base with Ease
Our proprietary spatial, land management planning model, OPTIONS, has been developed over the last 20+ years. OPTIONS enables us to help land managers and investors navigate within the complex regulatory and management environment that exists today. This environment, including changing government regulations, changing market access, increased requirements for sustainability, habitat conservation, estimates of production of non-traditional ecological goods and services (carbon sequestration, clean water), estimates of bio-energy potentials and green certification. These changes all increase the need for reliable environmental, social/cultural and financial impact analyses.
OPTIONS is a sophisticated and efficient analytical tool that can be used for a host of land-based problems dealing with almost any resource issues whether it be wetland vegetation management, urban/forest interface, restoration, grasslands management, bio-energy or multi-faceted forest uses. It has been used in studies involving employment, environment, ecology, wildlife, habitat, timber supply, carbon sequestration, bio-energy potentials, eco-tourism, finance, investment and policy issues. OPTIONS is used by both industry and government organizations and has been used on large and small landbases in Asia, South America, Canada and the United States. Over the last 20+ years OPTIONS has been used to analyze over 200 million hectares (500 million acres) worldwide.
OPTIONS is a PC, Windows-based, land management planning tool which is used for a wide variety of analyses:
- Policy Impact Analyses
- Project Feasibility Analyses
- Ecological and Habitat Modeling
- Land Rehabilitation
- Traditional Timber Supply Analysis
- Financial/Investment Analysis
- Verification of Sustainable Forest Management Plans
- Carbon Credit Calculations
- Bio-energy Valuations
- Silvicultural Regime Evaluation
- Fire/Pest/Disturbance Risk Analysis
- Sustainable Development/Sustainable Land Use Analyses
Highlights:
- Operates at the individual GIS-polygon level and maintains built-in links to GIS, so spatially-specific management rules, constraints and results can be included in analyses and displays.
- Accurately relates spatial constraints, targets and land management activities to the policy and strategic planning level.
- Enables analysts to develop land management scenarios quickly, run them and evaluate the results.
- Perform risk analysis by examining the sensitivity of the landbase to various risk factors, including regulatory and market changes and inaccuracies in the underlying data.
- Predict future cash flows with a high degree of confidence.
- Demonstrate sustainability across a range of factors, including Triple-Bottom-Line sustainability factors.
- Track costs and revenues across all individual treatments and forest management activities, provide estimates of gross and net cashflows and DCF, NPV computations.
- Planning horizon is user dependent - 1 year to as long as 9,999 years.
- Includes a set of standard reports which can be exported to any Windows compatible file format.
- Customized reports and graphic outputs can be easily developed.
- Outputs can be produced in map and report formats, both spatial and temporal, for public presentations.
Contact us for more information or an on-line demonstration.
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