----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Margarida Tomé [mailto:magatome@isa.utl.pt]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Januar 2011 14:33
An: div4(a)lists.iufro.org
Cc: bruno.fady(a)avignon.inra.fr; 'burger'
Betreff: upcoming conference on mediterranean pines
Dear Division IV members:
I just want to call your attention to the international conference MedPine
4, https://colloque.inra.fr/medpine4. Currently, 8.00.00 and 2.02.13 are
supporting this conference but I just sent a message to Bruno Fady (member
of the Scientific Committee) mentioning the interest of Division IV in
supporting this meeting.
The general theme of the Conference is:
Conservation, Ecology, Restoration and Management of Mediterranean Pines and
their Ecosystems: Challenges under global change
The following topics are covered:
Ecophysiology
Ecology
Pine - animal interactions
Stand dynamics and forest management
Genetics and breeding
Climate change impacts
Restoration
Conservation
Fire sciences
Diseases
My best regards,
Margarida Tomé
Division IV Coordinator
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Margarida Tomé
Univ. Tec. Lisbon, Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Centro de Estudos Florestais
Phone:+351 21 365 3485
Fax:+351 21 364 5000
Email: magatome(a)isa.ut.pt
http://www.isa.utl.pt/def/pessoa.php?pessoa=margarida_tome
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zagt, Roderick [mailto:Roderick.Zagt@tropenbos.org]
Dear colleagues
We remind you of our web survey about the effects of forest
certification on biodiversity conservation in tropical forests. If you
did not have the time yet, we invite you to please visit
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V6CJBK6 and complete this survey. It
takes only ten minutes. We intend to close the survey by 15 June.
Please also share with colleagues. It is open to everyone. We are
especially keen to have more input from forest managers!
Through this anonymous survey, we try to obtain opinions and
perspectives from forest management and conservation researchers,
practitioners and other experts on the following broad topics:
*The effectiveness of certification for biodiversity conservation
*The objectives of biodiversity management in tropical forests
*Current management and certification practices
These are important topics and we want to hear your views. The more
input we get the more valuable the survey will be.
Background: The European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) plans
to issue an ETFRN News about experiences and best practices regarding
forest management certification and the conservation of forest
biodiversity. The editors of the ETFRN News (Douglas Sheil, Jack Putz
and undersigned) are conducting a brief survey to accompany the papers
contributed by authors for this news issue.
Thank you very much for your collaboration, and again we request you to
please forward to colleagues.
Best regards and many thanks for all the input!
On behalf of the editorial team
Roderick Zagt
Roderick Zagt
Programme Coordinator
Tropenbos International (TBI)
Lawickse Allee 11
6701 AN Wageningen
the Netherlands
T: +31-317-481418
F: +31-317-481426
www.tropenbos.orgwww.chainsawmilling.org
Making knowledge work for forests and people
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Dear All:
We are pleased to inform you about IUFRO 4.05.00 Symposium on "How to both harvest and preserve forests more or better" in Paris on 26-30 May 2010.
The Symposium is being organised in the frame of the IUFRO Unit 4.05.00 on "Managerial Economics and Accounting" with the support of ECOFOR and FCBA (France).
Due to the late dissemination of this announcement, we encourage quick answers to the call for contributions (oral presentations). We will come back to you again
at mid-April in order to confirm that there is a sufficient number of voluntary contributions.
All details are available at: http://www.gip-ecofor.org
If you have any questions, please contact Viviane Appora : ecofor(a)gip-ecofor.org or Jean-Luc Peyron : peyron(a)gip-ecofor.org.
Best regards.
Shashi Kant
Prof. Shashi Kant
Faculty of Forestry
University of Toronto
Coordinator - IUFRO 4.05.00
SWC2010 International Conference
PEOPLE, FORESTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT:
COEXISTING IN HARMONY
Casablanca, Morocco
May 25-27, 2010
Only 3 weeks left to register!
Dear All:
This is to remind that the extended deadline for early-bird registration for SWC2010 international conference, and abstract submission, will end on 31 March 2010 (in 3 weeks!).
Those of you who have not registered yet, are invited to fill in, and send their registration form to the conference secretariat (sylva.world(a)yahoo.fr) as soon as possible.
Those who want to submit an abstract to be considered for oral or poster presentation have still 3 weeks left to send their abstract. After the 31st. of March 2010, no abstract will be accepted!
Those participants who registered to the conference, but do not yet booked the hotel accommodation, are invited to do it as soon as possible. The deadline for hotel booking at preferential room rate will end on 10 April 2010. But, take care, hotel rooms at hotel special rate are booked to conference participants, on the first-arrived, first-served basis!
For any additional information, please visit the conference website at www.sylvamonde.110mb.com/register.htm or www.swc2010.fr.fm
Looking forward to welcoming you, next May, to this exciting meeting in Casablanca (Morocco).
Dr. Mohammed Ellatifi
Conference Chair
Casablanca (Morocco)
Tel: +212 661 328 797
Fax: +212 522 982 428
E-mail: sylva.world(a)yahoo.fr and sylva.monde(a)yahoo.fr
Website: http://www.sylvamonde.110mb.com/register.htm & www.swc2010.fr.fm
Attached: Registration Form + Hotel Booking Form
PS: The list of hotels offering special price for the conference participants is available in the conference website, at: www.sylvamonde.110mb.com/accom.htm
XXIII IUFRO World Congress
23 – 28 August 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea
IUFRO Unit 4.02.01 - Resource Data in the Tropics
Scientific Session No. C-09
“Economic Valuation of Forest Environment Services”
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Deadline for Abstracts Submission: 31 December 2009
Submit your abstract
Only 15 days left!
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
This is to inform you that IUFRO Unit 4.02.01 – “Resource Data in the Tropics” is organizing a scientific session No. C-09, during the XXIII IUFRO World Congress, to take place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 28 August 2010.
This scientific session is organized under the theme “Economic Valuation of Forest Environment Services”.
You are kindly invited to submit to submit your abstract (s) to be considered as potential Speaker / Poster Presenter, in this Session. To do it, you have only 15 days left to submit your abstract. Please hurry up to submit your abstract!
You will find, attached, a Call for Abstracts, with the main ojectives, the covered topics, and the format of the scientific Session C-09.
With my best wishes for the new year 2010
Mohammed Ellatifi
Senior Forestry Officer
Coordinator, IUFRO Division 4.02.01 “Forest Resources in the Tropics”
Organizer, Session No. C-09
PO Box 20100 Hay Salam
20210 Casablanca
Morocco
Tel: +212 (0) 661 328 797 Fax: +212 (0) 522 982 428
E-mail: mellatifi(a)yahoo.fr sylva.world@yahoo
Website: www.swc2010.fr.fmwww.ellatifi.fr.fmwww.iufro2010.com
Attached: Call for Abstracts
Dear All:
This is to remind you the deadline for abstract submission for the following IUFRO and SWC2010 events:
Only three weeks left to submit your Abstract!
December 31, 2009 at 24:00 GMT is the deadline!
for the following events:
1. SWC2010 International Conference on:
“PEOPLE, FORESTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT:
COEXISTING IN HARMONY”
Casablanca, Morocco
May 25-27, 2010
December 31, 2009 at 24:00 GMT is the deadline
for Early-bird Registration and for Abstract Submission
All information related to the conference are available in the website www.swc2010.fr.fm and www.sylvamonde.110mb.com/welcome.htm
More particularly, information related to special conference topics are given in the following table:
Conference Topics
Deadline / web address
Call for Abstracts
Conference Topics
Guidelines for Abstract submission
Guidelines for paper / poster submission
http://sylvamonde.110mb.com/first.htm
Deadline for Abstract submission
31 December 2009
Programme for Accompanying persons
http://sylvamonde.110mb.com/accomp.htm
Registration and Hotel booking
http://sylvamonde.110mb.com/register.htm
Deadline for early registration fees
31 December 2009
Deadline for hotel booking
at conference special rate
10 April 2010
Conference Registration Form
www.sylvamonde.110mb.com/RegistrationForm.pdf
Hotel Booking Form
www.sylvamonde.110mb.com/HotelBookForm.pdf
Send your abstract to:
Amina El Hassouni
Conference Secretariat
PO Box 20100 Casablanca
Morocco
Tel: +212 661 328 797 Fax: +212 522 982 428
E-mail: sylva.world(a)yahoo.fr
2. XXIII UFRO World Congress in Seoul, Republic of Korea,
23 – 28 August 2010
Submit your Oral/Poster Abstract through IUFRO website www.iufro2010.com/
2.1. Session # C-09
“Economic Valuation of Forest Environment Services”
2.2. Session # C-10
“Impact of Global Environmental Change on Forest Ecosystem Services”
2.3. Session # C-10
“Impact of Global Environmental Change on Forest Ecosystem Services”
2.4. Session # D-04
“Pollution and Climate Change Impacts in Asia”
2.5. Session # D-09
“Changes in Climate and Air Pollution – New Directions in Forest Monitoring, Research and Modeling”
2.6. Session # G-01
“Forest Health in a Changing Environment”
2.7. Session # G-03
“Effect of Multiple Ecosystem Stressors on Tree and Forest Ecosystem Health”
2.8. Session # I-01
“Healthy Urban Forests: Healthy People”
A full call for paper is available at
http://www.iufro2010.com/?code=iu04&subp=0101
Regards
Mohammed Ellatifi
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: gdieterle(a)worldbank.org [mailto:gdieterle@worldbank.org]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. November 2009 23:06
Cc: SDN_Forests_Team(a)worldbank.org; ENVCF_FCPF_Team(a)worldbank.org;
akutter(a)worldbank.org; P
blissguest(a)worldbank.org; Rmearns(a)worldbank.org; nrai(a)worldbank.org
Betreff: CIF Calls for Nominations of Experts to Forest Investment Program
Wichtigkeit: Hoch
CIF Calls for Nominations of Experts to Forest Investment Program
11 November 2009: The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) has called for
nominations of
experts to serve on the Expert Group for the Forest Investment Program
(FIP), to
work on the selection of country or regional pilots for the FIP.
The deadline for nominations is 27 November 2009.
Call for nominations:
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTCC/Resources/407863-1232054799960/fip
_call_for_expert_nominations_letter_111109.pdf?resourceurlname=fip_call_for_
expert_nominations_letter_111109.pdf>
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTCC/Resources/407863-1232054799960/fip_
call_for_expert_nominations_letter_111109.pdf?resourceurlname=fip_call_for_e
xpert_nominations_letter_111109.pdf
Criteria for Selecting Expert Group Members:
<http://www.iufro.org/download/file/4517/95/nb-09-11-17_fip_1_4_1criteria_fo
r_selecting_expert_group_revised.pdf/>
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/4517/95/nb-09-11-17_fip_1_4_1criteria_for
_selecting_expert_group_revised.pdf/
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*
Dear Colleagues,
As you see from below, the CIF/Forest Investment Program is now establishing
its
operational structures.
A key step is the selection of experts who will advise the FIP sub-Committee
on
choosing pilot countries. As you see from the documents below about 6-8
experts
with a diverse range of skills and knowledge are to be selected.
It is extremely important for achieving FIP goals that experts with proven
global
expertise and experience in forestry, climate change and development are
nominated.
We count on you in helping out in this important matter.
You are kindly requested to spread the information and/or nominate qualified
experts (including yourself) for this assignment.
Many thanks for you cooperation
Gerhard
Forests Advisor
Agriculture & Rural Development
The World Bank
Tel: +1-202-458 7334; Fax: +1-202-614-1402;
E-Mail: GDieterle(a)worldbank.org, Room MC5-795
www.worldbank.org/forestswww.profor.info <http://www.profor.info/>
www.forest-alliance.org <http://www.forest-alliance.org/>
www.worldbank.org/enafleg
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Profiles
a) Forest Specialist (Co-chair). This expert should have a broad general
forestry background as well as specific knowledge of, and experience with,
biodiversity conservation, sustainable management of forests, forest ecology
and forest dynamics, agro-forestry, reforestation, non-timber forest
products,
landscape restoration, desertification resulting from forest degradation and
forest ecosystem services, including biotic and abiotic risks to forest
ecosystems.
b) Climate Specialist (Co-chair) . This expert should have knowledge of, and
experience in, climate change mitigation and adaptation related to forests,
at
sub-national, national and international levels. The expert should be
knowledgeable about national strategies for addressing climate change that
involve forests, the role of forests in addressing the challenges of climate
change, and REDD+ (including avoided deforestation and forest degradation,
forest conservation, sustainable forest management and enhancement of
carbon sinks).
c) Forest Finance Specialist and Development Economist.. This expert should
be knowledgeable about the role of forests in economic development and
planning, poverty alleviation and how to enhance the contribution of forests
to improving rural livelihoods, and valuation systems of alternative land
uses.
The expert should be well-versed in how to enhance local communities
income and benefits from forests through improved access to markets,
employment creation, and forest product processing.
d) Agricultural Specialist. This expert should be familiar with sustainable
rural
agricultural production systems, and the state of research on food producing
systems. The expert should be knowledgeable about large agribusinesses and
their potential impact on other land uses, as well shifting cultivation and
their
impacts on natural resources. This expert should be able to clearly
articulate
cross-sectoral linkages and impacts between agriculture and forest sectors.
e) Forest Industry and SME Investment Specialist. This expert should be
knowledgeable about the private sector and sustainable management of
forests, forest industry value chain, forest products trade, internationally
recognized independent forest certification systems and standards and
corporate social responsibility standards, community-company partnerships,
and investment opportunities in diverse countries.
f) Governance, Policy and Institutional Specialist. This expert should be
familiar with forest and land institutions, land management and
administration, land tenure, environmental, forest and other land use
policies,
legislation and enforcement, transparency, political economy of forests and
land.
g) Indigenous Peoples Specialist. This expert should be familiar with
indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities issues and rights,
including land tenure issues.
Social Development and Gender Specialist. This expert should be
familiar with poverty alleviation, social, community and gender issues,
particularly as they relate to forest management
______________________________________________
Dear Mailing List Members:
As at past IUFRO World Congresses, there will be the opportunity to honour
special scientific performances and achievements with selected IUFRO Awards
in the Seoul Congress in 2010.
If you know scientists doing outstanding forest research, nominate them for
one of the IUFRO Awards and give them the opportunity to travel to and
participate in the Congress as well as the chance to present their research
to the Congress participants.
Choose among the Scientific Achievement Award (SAA), Outstanding Doctoral
Research Award (ODRA) and the IUFRO Student Award (ISA) and make your
nomination soon. Bear in mind that you can only nominate candidates from
IUFRO Member Organizations, - no self-nominations are accepted - and that
the deadline for submission is 31 July 2009.
Find more information and nomination forms on our website
http://www.iufro.org/discover/awards/ and send your nominations to the Chair
of the IUFRO Honours & Awards Committee (Dr. Su See Lee, leess(a)frim.gov.my)
with copy to the IUFRO Executive Director (Dr. Peter Mayer,
office(a)iufro.org)
Dr. Su See Lee
Chair of the IUFRO H&A Committee
============================
IUFRO AWARDS at the IUFRO World Congress 2010
Scientific Achievement Award (SAA)
Up to 10 awards to recognize distinguished individual scientific
achievements within the fields of research covered by IUFRO. Criteria for
judgment will be dissemination of results, implementation of knowledge,
methods or techniques in practical forestry and skilled research management
(success in publications, meetings, funding, etc. in a larger group than the
individual) and involvement in IUFRO activities.
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (ODRA)
One award per IUFRO Division to recognize outstanding individual scientific
achievements among young Doctoral researchers and to encourage further work
within the fields of research covered by the Union.
IUFRO Student Award (ISA)
One award per IUFRO Division to recognise outstanding individual
achievements in forest science made by Masters degree students (or
equivalent), and to encourage their further work within the fields of
research covered by the Union. Nominations can be made through IUFRO member
organizations or officeholders and through members of the International
Forestry Students Association (IFSA).
Furthermore, the Congress will also offer
Best Poster Award (BPA)
To encourage public dissemination of high quality research and to recognize
distinguished poster presentations by young scientists during the IUFRO
World Congress.
and IUFRO World Congress Host Scientific Award
Honors a truly outstanding scientist from the Congress host
country/countries who has elevated the profile of forest science and
research accomplishments.
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IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
c/o BFW Mariabrunn, Hauptstrasse 7 │ 1140 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-877 0151 0 │ Fax: +43-1-877 0151 50
Website: <http://www.iufro.org/> www.iufro.org │ E-mail:
office(AT)iufro.org
Dear All:
We want to remind you on our upcoming IUFRO conference "Sustainable
Forest Management and Accounting - Resolutions During the Financial
Crisis" on 28 October 2009 in Darmstadt/Germany. The organizers 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.
Registration is possible at the conference homepage:
http://www.faustmann-conference.de/index.php?id=14&L=1
<http://www.faustmann-conference.de/index.php?id=14&L=1>
Abstract should be sent by 01 August 2009. Papers should be in English.
Please submit papers (electronically) to Martin Moog (moog(a)fw.tum.de
<mailto:moog@fw.tum.de>).
Please also note that submission of papers and abstracts for the
Faustmann Symposium is possible until June 15th.
Details can be found on the conference webpage
www.faustmann-conference.de <http://www.faustmann-conference.de>
Best regards.
Shashi
Prof. Shashi Kant
Faculty of Forestry
University of Toronto
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
