Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the scientific committee and conference organizers, University
of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry and IUFRO Unit 4.05.00 - Managerial economics
and accounting organising International Conference: SUSTAINABLE FOREST
MANAGEMENT FOR THE FUTURE - the role of managerial economics and accounting.
The conference will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, May 10-12, 2018.
The post-conference tour will be in the National park Plitvička jezera.
The main issues to be covered in the symposium are recent developments in
the following areas:
. Forest economics and accounting (investment analysis, present
forest management for future wood industry needs)
. Managerial economics and accounting in forestry
. Forestry economics and accounting in Latin America
. Regional, national, social and environmental accounting
. New economic instruments, regulations, policies, and
organizations in view of emerging needs of society from forest ecosystems.
The role of forestry in bio-based industry
. Forest development and management in the light of global
change
. New approaches in forest management to increase the ability
for adaptation
. Economic impact assessment of environmental, social and
economic changes on forest management
. Economic evaluation of forest- and timber trade-related
policies
. Financial modeling of forest management under changing
framework conditions
. Lessons from long-term forest-related economic data systems
. Opportunities related to the development of payments for
ecosystem services and consequences for forest management
. Shifts in supply and demand for non-market products and
services of forests
. The role of decision support systems in adaptation to shifting
framework conditions
. Managing long-term risks in forestry
. Awareness and perception of long-term changes in framework
conditions among forest related stakeholders
. Understanding of sustainability under changing framework
conditions
. Transdisciplinary research in forest management
. Contributions in the fields of environmental, social, regional
and national accounting.
Important dates:
Registration and submission of extended abstract: February 15th 2018
Notice on accepted abstracts: February 28th 2018
Transfer of registration fee: April 1st 2018
Submission of full text for the SEEFOR Journal: June 30th 2018
Web page will be active soon (ww.sumins.hr).
Please consider your participation and hope to see you in Zagreb.
With best regards
Associate Professor Stjepan Posavec, Ph. D.
Department of Forest Inventory and Management
Forest Economics
University of Zagreb - Faculty of Forestry
Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: +385 1 235 2455,
E-mail: <mailto:bozic@sumfak.hr> sposavec(a)sumfak.hr
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Von: Zadnik-Stirn, Lidija [mailto:Lidija.Zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si]
Gesendet: Samstag, 11. November 2017 19:15
Betreff: Invitation to Decision Support Systems Conference
Dear colleagues, dear friends!
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to participate at the international
and interdisciplinary conference "The 19th Open Conference of the IFIP WG
8.3 on Decision Support Systems" (IFIP DSS 2018) which will take place in
Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-15, 2018.
Please, see the detailed information at http://ifip2018dss.ijs.si/
The theme of the conference "DSS Research Delivering High Impacts to
Business and Society" highlights the main purpose of the DSS: providing
support to people and organizations faced with difficult decision problems
in a variety of contexts. This requires applying the DSS expertise to
problems that arise in other disciplines, such as specific business areas, ,
ecology, natural sciences, management, social affairs, healthcare, media and
many others. The DSS researchers should collaborate with other domains of
expertise and leverage the DSS expertise to solve other people's problems.
On this basis, we aim to continue the success of past IFIP WG 8.3
conferences in supporting the dissemination of quality research, but also to
provide a memorable experience through our hospitality and conference
facilities in Ljubljana, the European Green Capital 2016. The 2018 IFIP WG
8.3 conference is organized by Jozef Stefan Institute, the largest Slovenian
research institute, supported by several other institutions and in
celebration of the 20th anniversary of the 1998 IFIP WG 8.3 conference that
was held in Bled, Slovenia.
The IFIP WG 8.3 conference committees welcomes both academic and
practitioner community contributions on a wide range of topics using a range
of scholarly approaches that showcase the latest innovations and
achievements in decision support and decision making. Submitted
contributions that showcase methodological advances and real case studies
will be especially welcomed. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and the
acceptance of a contribution will be based on the originality of the work,
the relevance to the conference theme and its overall quality.
The 2018 Open Conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 will highlight the applications,
methods, analytics, stakeholders and impacts of decision making and decision
support in today's society, business and environment.
Important dates
Submissions: December 15, 2017
Author notification: February 15, 2018
Final submissions: March 15, 2018
Early registration deadlines: April 15, 2018
Conference: June 13-15, 2018
Many thanks for considering this invitation and hope to see you in Ljubljana
Prof. Lidija Zadnik Stirn, PhD
Member of IFIP DSS 2018 PC, SLO delegate in IFIP TC7
president of SDI-SOR and Deputy of IUFRO D4
From: Dr. Ernest Foli <mailto:[mailto:efoli@hotmail.com]>
[mailto:efoli@hotmail.com]
Subject: Input to the 2019 GSDR
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to request your input to the 2019 Global Sustainable
Development Report (GSDR). The GSDR, mandated by the United Nations' Member
States in the outcome document of the 2012 Rio + 20 conference, is meant to
strengthen the science-policy interface and provide a strong evidence-based
instrument to support policymakers in promoting poverty eradication and
sustainable development.
The GSDR is being drafted by an independent group of scientists (IGS),
supported by a task team of six UN-system agencies. Profiles of the 15 IGS
members are found here:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport/2019)
As part of its outreach efforts, the IGS is soliciting inputs from a diverse
group of scientific and non-scientific communities, from all over the world,
in the form of publications supported by short abstracts or descriptions of
case studies. Currently, we are requesting contributions in four major
areas:
(1) interactions among SDGs and their targets,
(2) transformation pathways towards sustainable development;
(3) looking beyond the SDGs (major issues identified by research which are
not explicitly taken into account in the SDGs), and
(4) the role of science for sustainable development. Contributions will be
acknowledged in the GSDR.
If you are interested in contributing to this important exercise, please
follow the below link to a questionnaire.
https://goo.gl/forms/bWjUsJmHPZCDkqxb2
With many thanks and kind regards,
Ernest Foli, PhD.
Member of the Independent Group of Scientists
Dear Member of the Division 4 mailing list,
I am coordinating the IUFRO Division 4 until the end of the IUFRO World
Congress to be held in Curitiba in September/October 2019. I am not
candidate for another term.
The nomination process of the future Coordinator is such that there is a
deadline on December 2017, 31st. Thus I would like to inform you about
the procedure that has been elaborated in order to nominate this future
Coordinator. You will find a short note about this procedure here:
http://docs.gip-ecofor.org/public/Procedure_Nomination_Coordinator_Div4.pdf
I use the Division 4 mailing list to disseminate the information about
this procedure. Present or past Officeholders from Division 4 or other
divisions can be candidates. Candidates should write to me
<jean-luc.peyron(a)gip-ecofor.org> with copy to
<coralie.zettor(a)gip-ecofor.org> until November 2017, 15th at the latest.
Then, only Division 4 Officeholders will vote until November 2017, 30th
at the latest.
Best regards.
--
Jean-Luc PEYRON
IGPEF, Dr.Sc.Eco.
Directeur d’ECOFOR
Membre correspondant de l'Académie d'agriculture de France
Iufro Board Member, Coord.Div.4 "Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management"
42, rue Scheffer, F-75116 Paris
Tel : +33 (0)1 53 70 21 49 (direct)
+33 (0)1 53 70 21 70 (secrétariat)
+33 (0)1 53 70 21 81 (secrétariat)
Fax : +33 (0)1 53 70 21 54
Web : http://www.gip-ecofor.org
Read an interview with Division 4 Coordinator Jean-Luc Peyron of the Public
Interest Group (GIP) on Forest Ecosystems (ECOFOR), France, about the work
in IUFRO Division 4 and the All-Division Meeting at the IUFRO 125th
Anniversary Congress.
The research range of Division 4 is rather broad, but it is consistent with
the needs of policy makers and forest practitioners. For the Freiburg
Congress, Division 4 organized more than 20 sessions.
Technological developments give great opportunities to forest assessment,
information systems, and the constitution and use of big data sets.
Forest assessment measurements are made in order to predict the value of
some variables and models are run to predict the evolution of those
variables. There are uncertainties behind those results, especially when the
prediction horizon is long.
It is therefore important to produce models that integrate several scenarios
and also take into account several management options. And that has to be
communicated transparently to decision makers.
Download the PDF:
https://www.iufro.org/download/file/27614/6146/iufro2017-interwiew-d4_pdf/
Link to the IUFRO Blog:
http://blog.iufro.org/2017/10/12/on-forest-assessment-modelling-and-manageme
nt/
Learn more about IUFRO Division 4:
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/
Watch this interview with Jean-Luc Peyron: https://youtu.be/q-_yFxiPpu0
Dear colleagues, dear IUFRO officer, participants of Freiburg IUFRO
congress!
Please accept in attachment our (unit 4.05.00) information/invitation to
some important events/sessions which will take place at Freiburg congress
and tackle the activities of unit 4.05.00 working within division 4 (D4).
We kindly invite you to active participation of these events and ask you for
your valuable/supportable assistance.
Thank you in advance.
Looking forward to meet you in Freiburg
Best regards
Unit 4.05.00/D4 deputies
Lidija Zadnik
Don Hodges
Walter Sekot
Vitor Hoefflich
