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IUFRO 3.08 Small-scale Forestry Research group News
Dear friends, dear colleagues,
Looking back to a productive, interesting and very nice meeting in Brazil and Argentina I’m glad to be now in the position to announce the next upcoming event(s) of our group.
Next year is going to be the 125th anniversary of IUFRO. This important event will be celebrated with an “anniversary congress” held in Freiburg, Germany. You all can easily find information about this exciting event on the congress webpage.
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As many other groups we have decided not to compete with this event, in order to avoid that people have to decide between our group meeting and the anniversary congress.
As you might know, our group frequently tends to be somehow different. In this case, this means that we decided to provide the opportunity to discuss our research field a little bit more intensely. As a means to achieve this goal, two additional small-scale forestry days will be organized right before the meeting. We are calling it “IUFRO125a/3.08 Side-event”.
In detail this means that we will offer a “hiking excursion” on Sunday, Sep. 17th 2017. On Monday 18th 2017, one additional day for presentations will be organized by and at the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (Dept. of Forest economics) here in Freiburg.
Together with a couple of 125a congress-sessions, which will touch small-scale forestry issues as well, we hope to provide enough space to discuss our field of interest in detail.
This setting allows in addition, that papers, which cannot be considered inside the 125 a conference, can find a place to be presented inside our group - and in this case with even more time for presentation and discussion.
As a first step to start our 2017 3.08 conference procedure I highly encourage you all to make submissions to the two sessions, which will be organized by the 3.08 group. Brett Butler is organizing session 151 (History, Findings, and Future Directions of Forest Landowner Research). I’m glad to offer session 149 (Synergies and Conflicts in the Provision of Ecosystem Services by Small - scale Forest Owners). Both sessions are described in more details below.
Please keep in mind that submissions must be made over the conference website:
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The deadline for abstracts is Nov. 30th 2016!!!
Brett and I are looking forward to seeing your abstracts.
An open call for abstracts for the IUFRO125a/3.08 side-event will be launched in January, when decisions about the abstracts of the 125a Conference have been made.
At the same time we will provide more information about the side-event.
In case of further questions, don’t hesitate to contact me: christoph.hartebrodt(a)forst.bwl.de
Best regards from Freiburg,
Christoph Hartebrodt
Coordinator IUFRO 3.08 Small-scale Forestry
Session 151 History, Findings, and Future Directions of Forest Landowner Research
To be found as a part of all Division 3 meeting
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Main Organizer
Brett Butler U.S. Forest Service, Amherst, MA/USA <mailto:bbutler01@fs.fed.us> bbutler01(a)fs.fed.us
Co - Organizer(s) Christoph Hartebrodt, Forest Research Institute of Baden - Württemberg
Session description
The fate of the forests lies largely in the hands of those who own it and consequently forest owners are critical component of “Interconnecting Forests, Science and People.” Operating within political, social, economic, and biophysical constraints, forest owners are the ones who decide if and how forests will be managed and what will be produced. Private owners dominate many forested landscape across much of the world. According to the FAO’s 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment, private forest owners control nearly 70 million hectares of forestland around the globe and account for well over 50% of the forestland in many countries in Europe and North and South America. The largest areas of private forestland are in the USA, Brazil, China, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Mexico, Finland, and Japan. Within this category of private forest owners, family forest owners, also known as nonindustrial private forest owners, are dominant. Surveys are the most common research tool used for understanding the attitudes, behaviors, and demographics of family forest owners. Most landowner surveys are focused on narrow topics for owners in limited geographic areas, but a handful of projects have been established that look at forest owners across broad areas and for extended periods of times, such as the U.S. Forest Service’s National Woodland Owner Survey, the “accountancy networks” of Germany and Austria, and the periodic landowner surveys in Finland, Sweden, and Japan. This session will provide an opportunity for discussing the history, synthesizing the current state, and charting a path forward for forestland owner research.
149 Synergies and Conflicts in the Provision of Ecosystem Services by Small - scale Forest Owners
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Main Organizer
Christoph Hartebrodt Forest Research Institute Baden - Württemberg, Freiburg/Germany christoph.hartebrodt(a)forst.bwl.de
Co - Organizer(s)
Heimo Karppinen University of Helsinki
Session description
Privately owned forests play a substantial role all over the world.
Regionally, they are the prevalent ownership type. Thus, the provision of all kind of ecosystem services (ESS) can- not work without the contribution of private and communal forest owners. Depending on the demand and intensity of the use of ecosystem services on one hand and the set of objectives and biophysical preconditions on the other, the relationship between ESS and owner rights or objectives can differ widely. Where the access and the use of forests is limited, the preconditions for production of income or limitation of impact for instance, are much better than in case of free access rights and a societal widely accepted and expected use of forest for recreational and conservation purposes. The session wants to contribute to this ongoing and intensifying debate and will focus on the question, which preconditions and political settings can contribute to a fair balance of interest between owner’s rights and social obligation of property in different parts of the world. Additionally, the chances and requirements for private forest owners to draw benefits from the provision of various types of ESS will be highlighted. Consequently, contributions from densely populated parts of the world will be prevalent, but views on the situation from other regions, in which this debate might be at an earlier stage, are welcome. As a fair balance requires a sound evaluation of the monetary impact or contribution of ecosystem services to the forest owner’s household income or community forest budget, contributions to the methodology and results of the assessment of monetary consequences are seen as valuable input on the discussion as well.
Dr. Christoph Hartebrodt
Department of Forest Economics
Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Wonnhaldestr. 4
D – 79100 Freiburg
Tel. + 49 761 4018 262
christoph.hartebrodt(a)forst.bwl.de
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit your abstracts for a IUFRO Congress 2017 - session
No# 121: *Reforestation challenges: planting material, ecophysiology,
biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and disaster risk
reduction*.
Format: mixture of oral and poster presentations
Segment: All Division 3 (Forest Operations Engineering and Management)
Meeting
All submissions must be made online at the official congress website
*at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/
<http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/> by 30 November 2016*.
We look forward to meet you at Congress, 19 – 22 September 2017 in
Freiburg, Germany.
Best regards,
Vladan
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*Dr Vladan Ivetić*
Associate Professor
University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry
Head of Chair for Seed science, nursery production and afforestation
REFORESTA - Editor-In-Chief
IUFRO RG 3.02.00 - Stand establishment and treatment
Kneza Višeslava 1
11030 Belgrade, Serbia
tel: +381 64 2383 584
www.sfb.bg.ac.rs
Skype: vladan.ivetic
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit your abstracts for a session No# 121: *Reforestation
challenges: planting material, ecophysiology, biodiversity, climate change
mitigation and adaptation, and disaster risk reduction*.
Format: mixture of oral and poster presentations
Segment: All Division 3 (Forest Operations Engineering and Management)
Meeting
All submissions must be made online at the official congress website
*at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/
<http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/> by 30 November 2016*.
We look forward to meet you at Congress, 19 – 22 September 2017 in
Freiburg, Germany.
Best regards,
Vladan
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*Dr Vladan Ivetić*
Associate Professor
University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry
Head of Chair for Seed science, nursery production and afforestation
REFORESTA - Editor-In-Chief
IUFRO RG 3.02.00 - Stand establishment and treatment
Kneza Višeslava 1
11030 Belgrade, Serbia
tel: +381 64 2383 584
www.sfb.bg.ac.rs
Skype: vladan.ivetic
Dear colleagues,
there are many good reasons to visit Freiburg, and a special one the IUFRO
125th Anniversary Congress in September of next year. The call for
abstracts is now open for this congress at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts, where will also find the list of
accepted sessions. The deadline for abstract submissions is 30 November
2016.
“Gender and working conditions in tropical forests” (session 147) is the
session, which we prepared. Please look at the session outline:
Forest work is hard work everywhere, but especially under tropical
conditions. This work is done by numerous men and women to earn a
livelihood based on the use of forest resources, timber as well as NTFP.
Millions of these men and women work in formal employment, but many more
in informal occupation, mostly in developing countries.
Their working situations, as in other sectors or even more so, are
gendered, i.e. different for men and women. This refers to tasks, chances
of personal and vocational development, income as well as to the other
physical, social and organisational working conditions, which are changing
and becoming harder through deforestation, climate change and extreme
weather situations, urbanisation and globalisation. Gender and working
conditions in tropical forests are monitored and studied by
representatives of different disciplines, among them social scientists,
gender specialists, ergonomists and certification auditors. The aim of the
proposed session is to share current knowledge from their work, which is a
fundamental research field of the IUFRO gender group and subgroups as well
as IUFRO Division 3.
I ask you to submit your abstract for the session before the deadline –
please do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have. It would be
helpful if you would send the abstract at the same time to me.
Let me also draw your attention to four more sessions with topics
connected to the topic of our session: there are two more gender related
sessions and two sessions on ergonomic issues in the programme.
Looking forward to a great session in Freiburg next year,
Siegfried Lewark
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Prof. Dr. Siegfried Lewark
Universität Freiburg
Professur für Forstliche Arbeitswissenschaft /
Chair of Forest Work Science
Werthmannstr. 6
D-79085 Freiburg
Distinguished Professor
NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY
College of Furniture and Industrial Design
Longpan Road 159, Nanjing, Jiangsu
China
Dear colleagues,
I have the pleasure to inform you that the session on No. 148
“Innovative value added chains in forestry” in the Congress segment: All
Division 4 (Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management) Meeting for
upcoming IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg
Germany, 19-22 September, 2017 is open for abstract submission at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts. The deadline for abstract
submission is 30 November, 2016. If you want to discuss your ideas,
please contact one of the organizers (see below).
Session outline
The value added - from harvesting, processing and using the potentials
of (domestic) forest resources - to supply refined timber or non-timber
products or to provide touristic or green care services, continues to
increase the value of forested areas - a major part of Bio -Economy. The
paradigm of the cascade usage between material and energetic usage and
dividing high value from low value assortments - a particularity of
forestry - is in line with the European strategy of Circular Economy for
increasing resource-efficiency. Accordingly, this session aims to
present outstanding case studies of innovative supply chains that foster
rural-urban linkages and strengthen interdisciplinary interfaces. It
will also discuss methodological approaches such as calculation schemes
or the applicability of optimization and behavioral models to compute
the value added for certain administrative units. Such multi-method
approaches introduce interesting views for deriving a regional value
added, by capturing the most relevant input-factors and outputs along
the value added chain: from the supply of raw materials and the use of
products - to the profit made and taxes paid. That process can consider
horizontal and vertical interlinkages covering intermediate suppliers of
individual actors across the production chain. Multiplier effects like
that are extending the “chain concept” to a “network concept”. Therein
effects of CO2 sequestration or additional value added from introducing
carbon taxes could be included as well. Moreover, we welcome
contributions providing insights regarding the competitiveness of
regional and international value added chains or the latent conflict
between microeconomic interests and macro-economic benefits as valuable
inputs for the discussion. This Session situates, elaborates, and
further explains the theory of value chain, with focus on
interdisciplinary approach. It emphasizes crosscutting and motivations
for supplementing the “buyer-driven” and “producer-driven” modes of
global commodity chains in forestry. It considers horizontal and
vertical interlinkages covering intermediate suppliers of individual
actors across the production chains, as one of the elements of
bioeconomy.
The session is organised under IUFRO All Division Meeting 4 Forest
Assessment, Modelling and Management, but it is not restricted to AMM
and will feature interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative
research, combining ideas and framings from forestry as whole. The
session is organised by researchers from different disciplines, who will
also seek to include additional papers to widen the disciplinary and
geographical coverage.
Best regards, your contribution and looking forward to see you in
Freiburg!
Ljiljana Keca
Prof. Dr Ljiljana Keca
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry
Department of Forestry
Chair of Forest Economics, Policy and Organisation
Forest Economics, Trade and Marketing, Forest Policy
1, Kneza Viseslava street, Serbia 11030 Belgrade
Phone: + 381 (0) 11 30 53 959
Mobile: + 381 (0) 64 17 94 648
E-mail: ljiljana.keca(a)sfb.bg.ac.rs (Bussiness)
Skype: ljiljana.keca
Christian Hoffmann
European Academy of Bolzano Institute for
Regional Development and Location Management EURAC research
Bolzano
Website: <http://www.cfc2017.in/> http://www.cfc2017.in/
The world today is undergoing rapid socio-economic and technological changes, which have implications for the forest and environment sector, in turn affecting the ecological, economic and social well being of the people. The forestry sector must keep pace and adapt to these changes. The "Commonwealth" refers to the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of 53 sovereign nations that works together to achieve international goals such as Peace, Democracy and Consensus-building, Law, Human Rights and Development, Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development with greater trust and mutual understanding. Environment and forests are global resources and need to be focused upon by the global fraternity due to the pressures they are under as a result of the alarming growth in the human population, pressures that are being exacerbated by climate and environmental change. The year 2017 will be a key occasion for forestry professionals, academicians and all those interested in and associated with forestry sector in the Commonwealth; they will gather and share their experiences with a view to learn and develop a vision for the future that will involve inclusive and sustainable growth and development. The commonwealth forestry conferences have been held since 1920, when the first (Empire) Forestry Conference was held in London. Since then, the conferences have been held regularly to discuss various aspects of management of forests and focus the action on the changing priorities of the forestry sector.
The 19th Commonwealth Forestry Conference is scheduled to be held at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India from 3rd to 7th April, 2017. The ICFRE and FRI will be the Focal point of the conference, with support from MOEF & CC, Government of India and Commonwealth Forestry Association. The major theme of the conference will be: "Forests for Prosperity and Posterity"
Abstract submission
Abstract submission will be open until 7 November 2016, at <http://www.cfc2017.in/call-for-papers/> http://www.cfc2017.in/call-for-papers/, containing detailed instructions on how to proceed. The sub-themes are:
1. Biodiversity conservation and management
2. Livelihood and economic security from forests
3. Diversification, multiple use and sustainable harvest
4. Good governance in forestry
5. Forests and climate change
6. Forest and water
The CFC-2017 Secretariat is looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
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posted by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
