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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.
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:
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/
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@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
Web: http://iufro2017.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IUFRO2017-AllDiv3-Sessions.pdf
Main Organizer
Brett Butler U.S. Forest Service, Amherst, MA/USA bbutler01@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
Web: http://iufro2017.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IUFRO2017-General-Congress-1-Session.pdf
Main Organizer
Christoph Hartebrodt Forest Research Institute Baden - Württemberg, Freiburg/Germany christoph.hartebrodt@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