Golbal Change and Mediterranean Pines: Alternatives for Management
by Secretariat
Please download this announcement and call for papers at
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/3660/1810/palencia10-1st-announcement.pdf
GLOBAL CHANGE AND MEDITERRANEAN PINES:
ALTERNATIVES FOR MANAGEMENT
IUFRO
DIVISION 1: Unit 1.01.10 Ecology and silviculture of pine
DIVISION 2: Unit 2.02.13 Breeding and genetic resources of Mediterranean
conifers
DIVISION 4: Unit 4.01.00 - Forest mensuration and modelling
Joint International Meeting
10-12 February, 2010
University of Valladolid at Palencia, Spain
With the scientific support of:
Instituto Gestión Forestal Sostenible (UVa-INIA)
With the technical collaboration of:
FAO Silva Mediterranea
EFI Mediterranean Regional Office - EFIMED
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Background and theme
Global change challenges forestry around the world by changing both
environmental and social conditions. This fact is especially true in the
Mediterranean basin, one of the biodiversity hotspots, where climate change
and demographic development will likely have strong impacts in the near
future. The Mediterranean area is especially sensitive to any climate change
because it represents a transition zone between arid and humid regions of
the world, which make this region an interesting model system to study the
effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems.
Climate change in the Mediterranean region is revealing itself by
temperature increase, change in precipitation regimes, and more frequent
extreme events, such as drought, heat waves and storms, which in turn
increase the frequency and intensity of forest fires, pest outbreak and wind
damages. Such changes affect drastically forest growth and health, the
capacity of forests to sequester carbon as well as the diversity of forest
ecosystems either directly or indirectly. The Mediterranean resources are
simultaneously threatened and strategic because of possible future use in a
broader geographical range. Therefore, improving the knowledge about the
effects of such environmental changes to forest regeneration, growth and
mortality needs to be improved for predicting forest responses from the gene
to the community level. Without such knowledge it is impossible to develop
adequate adaptive management models for Mediterranean forest.
Meeting Key Challenges:
a. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the physiological
and ecological responses of different Mediterranean pine species (in terms
of nutrient uptake, growth, biotic stress factors, etc.) to climate change
and water availability is needed to define new adaptive management regimes
for reducing water use and ensuring the long-term soil preservation.
b. Understanding the ecological and genetic adaptive capacity of pine
species in response to environmental changes and various forest management
scenarios.
c. Anticipating the effects of interactions between different components
of future environmental changes.
The Meeting, and therefore the contributions, is expected to add to the
following main research fields:
* Forestry strategies to cope with global change
* Ecological and Genetic adaptations to climate change
* Interaction between genetics, ecology and silviculture of
Mediterranean pines under global change conditions
Scientific programme
* Global framework
* Interaction between genetics, ecology and silviculture of
Mediterranean pines under global change conditions
* Policy and management implications
* Case studies
Conference webpage
Information on the Meeting, as well as registration and chance for entering
abstracts in the Meetings peer-review scheme can be found at
www.iufro2010.es. This Internet domain mirrors
www.cuatroelementos.org/proyectos/iufro2010, where those facilities are
hosted.
Call for abstracts
Authors willing to submit a paper or poster must send an abstract written in
English, of no more than 300 words, before 15 July 2009. The abstracts will
be peer-reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Meeting.
Abstract instructions
* Please submit abstracts through the communications module of
www.iufro2010.es (registration required, preferred option) or by sending it
to the Meeting Secretariat
* In the second case, abstracts should be submitted in plain text
* Main body of abstract should be 300 words or less
* Information on a given abstract must include:
· Title
· Authors and affiliations
· Body of abstract
· Contact information for corresponding author, including mailing
address, phone, and email.
· Type of submission (paper or poster)
· Suggestion for most applicable theme
· Name of presenter
Timeline
* Abstracts due: 20 July 2009
* Notification of acceptance: 9 October 2009
* Final papers: 7 December 2009
Manuscript formatting
Edited proceedings will be distributed at the Meeting, and will include
accepted papers and posters. A publication of selected papers is further
programmed.
Deadlines and dates
Early registration: 1 May 2009
Abstract submission: Not after 20 July 2009
Notification of acceptance: Not after 9 October 2009
Paper due: 7 December 2009
Meeting: 10-12 February 2010
Details on registration, accommodation and travel information will be
provided through www.iufro2010.es or by the Secretariat at (e-mailed)
request.
Further information
Questions and information requests can be directed to:
Dr. Felipe Bravo
c/o IUFRO 2010 Meeting Secretariat
Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agrarias, Universidad de Valladolid
Postal address: Avda. Madrid 57
34004 Palencia
Spain
Tel.: (+34) 979108440
Fax: (+34) 979108430
Mail: secretariat(a)iufro2010.es
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Third International Faustmann Symposium; October 28-31, 2009
by Burger
Third International Faustmann Symposium
Forest Economics in a Dynamic and Changing World
October 28-31, 2009
The Hunting Castle of Kranichstein
Darmstadt, Germany
The year 2009 marks the 160th anniversary since Martin Faustmann published
the seminal paper “Berechnung des Werthes, welchen Waldboden, sowie noch
nicht haubare Holzbestände für die Waldwirthschaft besitzen” – “Calculation
of the Value which Forest Land and Immature Stands Possess for Forestry”.
This paper stands as an icon both for forest economics and capital theory.
The first International Faustmann Symposium was held in Darmstadt, Germany
in 1999 and the second in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA in 2005. We invite all
interested parties to attend the Third International Faustmann Symposium
titled “Forest Economics in a Dynamic and Changing World”.
The themes of the Symposium are:
1. New theoretical developments of deterministic and stochastic forest
economic models in the rapidly changing worlds of natural resources,
environment, and economic development.
2. Theoretical and practical applications for optimal timber production at
the stand, forest and regional levels, including studies on forest economic
problems in developing countries.
3. Studies on the integration of timber production with recreational and
other forest values, including economic studies on forestry and climate
change.
4. Studies applying the optimal rotation approach in other fields of
resource, environmental or agricultural economics.
Call for Papers
The organizers of the Symposium are particularly interested in encouraging
both theoreticians and practitioners in the field of forest economics, as
well as economists and forest scientists with closely related interests to
participate in the Symposium. The intent is to have a lively exchange
between researchers and practitioners during the Symposium and to spark
ideas to meet the needs of real world applications. Any questions regarding
relevance should be directed to either to Dick Brazee (
<mailto:brazee@illinois.edu> brazee(a)illinois.edu) or Olli Tahvonen (
<mailto:olli.tahvonen@metla.fi> olli.tahvonen(a)metla.fi)
For consideration full papers must be received by April 30, 2009. Papers
should be in English. Please use the templates on the webpage (
<http://www.faustmann-conference.de> www.faustmann-conference.de) and submit
papers (electronically) to Dick Brazee at <mailto:brazee@illinois.edu>
brazee(a)illinois.edu or Olli Tahvonen at <mailto:olli.tahvonen@metla.fi>
olli.tahvonen(a)metla.fi. Authors will be notified regarding acceptance by
June 30, 2009.
Best Paper Award
Participants born in 1979 or later can win the "best paper award". Sponsor
of this 500 € award is S.D. Albrecht Fürst zu Oettingen-Spielberg. The
criteria are the theoretical value and the originality of the manuscript.
Registration
For program information please see the Symposium webpage:
<http://www.faustmann-conference.de/> www.faustmann-conference.de/.
Registration is possible by now using the web form. Questions regarding
registration can be directed to Martin Moog ( <mailto:moog@fw.tum.de>
moog(a)fw.tum.de).
Organizing and Program Committee
Gregory S. Amacher, Virginia Tech, USA
Richard J. Brazee, University of Illinois, USA
Sun Joseph Chang, Louisiana State University, USA
Peter Deegen, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Shashi Kant, University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Knoke, Technische Universität München, Germany
Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, University of Umea, Sweden
Bernhard Moehring, University of Goettingen, Germany
Martin Moog, Technische Universität München, Germany
Gonzalo Paredes, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
Jean-Luc Peyron, ECOFOR, France
Carlos Ribeiro, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil
Olli Tahvonen, METLA, Finland
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Prof. Dr. Martin Moog
Lehrstuhl für Forstliche Wirtschaftslehre
Technische Universität München
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Am Hochanger 13
D-85354 Freising
Tel.: +49 (8161) 71-4629
Fax: +49 (8161) 71-4631
<mailto:moog@forst.tu-muenchen.de> moog(a)forst.tu-muenchen.de
<http://www.fwl.wi.tum.de> www.fwl.wi.tum.de
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Forwarded by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
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