Brief curriculum vitae
Name: José G. Borges
Place and date of birth: United States of America, September 19, 1958
Nationalities: Portuguese and North-American
Institutional address: Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical
University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Academic degrees: Master degree (Plan B) in Information Systems and Technologies for Organizations,
College of Management and Economics, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2003. Habilitation in
Forestry Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), College of
Natural Resources, University of Minnesota, USA, 1994. Licenciate in Forestry, Instituto Superior de
Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1982.
Current position: Member of the European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office (EFIMED)
Advisory Group (2007-date). Vice-President of General Assembly of ADISA, Association for the Development
of Instituto Superior de Agronomia (2007-date). Associate Professor at the Department of Forest Engineering
of Instituto Superior de Agronomia of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (2003-date). Mmber of the
Doctoral Council of the Center for Forest Studies (1995-date).
Former positions: Member of the Executive Board of INOVISA, Incubação de Empresas, Formação Avançada
e Consultoria (2007-2009). President of the Forest and Natural Resources Engineering Degree Commission,
ISA, Technical University of Lisbon (2007-2009). Vice-President of the Department of Forest Engineering,
ISA, Technical University of Lisbon (2006-2009). Member of the IUFRO Task Force on Information
Technology and the Forest Sector (2003-2005). Assistant Professor at the Department of Forest Resources of
Instituto Superior de Agronomia of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (1995-2003).
Teaching activity: He coordinates the teaching of one 2º Cycle course and one 1º Cycle and he further
participates in the teaching of two 2º Cycle courses of the Forestry and Natural Resource degree in Instituto
Superior de Agronomia. He coordinated the teaching of 10 undergraduate courses and 5 graduate courses at
Department of Forest Resources of Instituto Superior de Agronomia and at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
of University of Coimbra. He further participated in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes at Escolas
Superiores Agrárias of Coimbra and Castelo Branco and at College of Law of University of Lisbon. He was
lecturer in 3 international advanced courses.
Scientific activity: Recent research has focused on the conceptualization of forest resources management
information systems, on the development of stand, forest and landscape-level management models, on
environmental resources management modeling and on the development of forest resources decision support
systems. Research is/was conducted in the framework of 20 national projects and 11 international projects; he
is/was principal investigator in 7 national projects and in 1 international project and he coordinates/coordinated
the research on forest resources management and economics in ISA in the framework of the 22 remaining
projects. He supervises/supervised research in 6 Post Doc programs, 8 Ph.D.dissertations, 11 Msc.
Dissertations and 26 licenciature final reports. He refereed 3 international Ph.D. dissertations. He also refereed
32 papers for international ISI journals (e.g. Ecological Engineering, Operations Research, Forest Science,
Forest Policy and Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research,
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Annals of Forest Science, Journal of Environmental Management,
Forest Ecology and Management, Nonlinear Analysis Series B: Real World Applications and Silva Fennica)
and 4 book chapters (e.g. Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers). He participated in 3 national PhD and PostDoc scholarships evaluation panels and in international evaluation panels for two projects in the framework of
the European Science Foundation Cost Program and the Research Council of Norway. He participated in the
evaluation committee for a full professor position in university in the USA. He is Associated Editor of Forest
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Science and Silva Fennica. Research results are documented in 38 international refereed publications and 14
portuguese refereed publications and in 77 other publications. Research results have been further disseminated
in 101 technical/scientific meetings. He organized or participated in the scientific committee of 11 international
meetings and 7 national meetings and he was invited to make presentations in 18 other international meetings
and 24 other national meetings.
Technical activity: Coordination and supervision of projects to develop strategic information systems and
management plans for the 3 main pulp and paper industry groups in Portugal. Supervision of projects to develop
7 Regional Forest Plans in Portugal. Participation in the supervision of the Technical Proposal of the National
Plan to Prevent Forest Fires. Coordination of projects for the development of Decision Support Systems for
Mediterranean Forests Ecosystems, National Forests, Community Forests management planning. Financial
analysis of the Portuguese Forest Project for the World Bank.
Some scientific publications:
Borges P.J., Fragoso R., Garcia-Gonzalo J., Borges J. G., Marques S. and Lucas, M.R. 2010. Assessing impacts
of Common Agricultural Policy changes on regional land use patterns with a decision support system.
An application in Southern Portugal. Forest Policy and Economics 12: 111-120.
Costa, A., Oliveira, A. C., Vidas., F. and J. G. Borges. 2010. An approach to cork oak forest management
planning in Southwestern Portugal. European Journal of Forest Research 129: 233-241.
Pereira, J. S., A. Correia, A. Correia e J. G. Borges. 2009. A Floresta. In Pereira, H. M., T. Domingos, L.
Vicente e V. Proença (Eds), Ecossistemas e Bem Estar Humano. Avaliação para Portual do
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: 235-258
Constantino, M., I. Martins and J. G. Borges. 2008. A new mixed integer programming model for harvest
scheduling subject to maximum area restrictions. Operations Research 56: 542-551.
Reynolds, K.M., M. Twery, M. J. Lexer, H. Vacik, D. Ray, G. Shao and J. G. Borges. 2008. Decision support
systems in natural resource management. In: F. Burstein and C. Holsapple (Ed.) Handbook on Decision
Support Systems. Springer, International Handbooks on Information Systems Series. Handbook on
Decision Support System 2: 499-534
Hoganson, H. M., J. G. Borges and Y. Wei. 2008. Coordinating Management Decisions of Neighboring Stands
with Dynamic Programming. In: K. von Gadow and T. Pukkala (Ed.) Designing Green Landscapes.
Springer, Managing Forest Ecosystems Vol. 15: 187-214.
Martins, H. and J. G. Borges. 2007. Addressing collaborative planning methods and tools in forest management.
Forest Ecology and Management 248: 107-118.
Pereira, J. S., H. Martins and J. G. Borges. 2007. Forests for the 21st Century? In: M.S. Pereira (Ed.) A Portrait
of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon. Springer, Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, 385-400
Borges, J. G. e J. S. Uva. 2006. A prevenção e o combate a incêndios no âmbito do ordenamento e da gestão
florestal. In: J. S. Pereira , J. M. C. Pereira, F. C. Rego, J. N. Silva e T. P. Silva (Eds). Incêndios
Florestais em Portugal: Caracterização, Impactes e Prevenção. ISAPress, Lisboa: 313-335.
Falcão, A. O., M. Próspero dos Santos and J. G. Borges. 2006. A real-time visualization tool for forest
ecosystem management decision support. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture 53: 3-12.
Reynolds, K.M., J.G. Borges, H. Vacik and M.J. Lexer. 2005. Information and communication technology in
forest management and conservation. In: L. Hetemaki and S. Nilsson (Eds.) Information Technology
and the Forest Sector. IUFRO World Series Volume 18. Vienna, Austria: International Union of Forest
Research Organizations: 150-171
Falcão, A. and J. G. Borges. 2005. Designing decision support tools for Mediterranean forest ecosystems
management: a case study in Portugal. Annals of Forest Science 62: 751-760
Martins, I., M. Constantino and J. G. Borges. 2005. A column generation approach for solving a non-temporal
forest harvest model with spatial structure constraints. European Journal of Operational Research 16:
478-498
Borges, J. G., A. Falcão, C. Miragaia, P. Marques and M. Marques. 2003. A decision support system for forest
resources management in Portugal. In: G. J. Arthaud and T. M. Barrett (Eds.) System Analysis in Forest
Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Managing Forest Ecosystems Vol. 7: 155-164.
Borges, J. G., H. M. Hoganson and A. O. Falcão. 2002. Heuristics in multi-objective forest management. In: T.
Pukkala (Ed.) Multi-objective Forest Planning. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Managing Forest
Ecosystems Vol. 5: 119-152.
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Falcão, A. O. and J. G. Borges. 2002. Combining random and systematic search heuristic procedures for solving
spatially constrained forest management scheduling problems. Forest Science 48:608-621.
Falcão, A. O. and J. G. Borges. 2001. Designing an evolution program for solving integer forest management
scheduling models: an application in Portugal. Forest Science 47:158-168.
Borges, J. G., and H. M. Hoganson. 1999. Assessing the impact of management unit design and adjacency
constraints on forest wide spatial conditions and timber revenues. Canadian Journal of Forest Research
29: 1764-1774.
Borges, J. G., H. M. Hoganson and D.W. Rose. 1999. Combining a decomposition strategy with dynamic
programming to solve spatially constrained forest management scheduling problems. Forest Science 45:
201-212.
Hoganson, H. M. and J. G. Borges. 1998. Using dynamic programming and overlapping subproblems to address
adjacency in large harvest scheduling problems. Forest Science 44: 526-538.
Borges J. G., A. C. Oliveira and M. A. Costa. 1997. A quantitative approach to cork oak forest management.
Forest Ecology and Management 97:223-229.
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