The impact of stochastic perturbations in a forest planning model was discussed in this work. It was developed a linear programming and an approach, through stochastic simulations, to analyse and quantify the variability that occurs in the values of the objective function, because of the nature of the data that are used in the model. A program to do such simulations was developed. A new concept was introduced, called object-system ratio of variability, in order to measure the sensitivity of the response of the system when variations occur in the object.
forest planning; linear programming; stochasticity
