Call for Presentation and Poster Proposals
The 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference and
IUFRO Conference on Forests for People
Reminder - the deadline is seven days away.
The deadline for submitting presentation and poster proposals is Friday, November 16, 2012.
More information about the 2013 National Outdoor Recreation and Forests for People Conference is at <http://recpro.memberclicks.net/message/urlRedir?id=44313&recip=b9e337fe-815…> http://www.recpro.org/2013-sorp-ffp-conference. Check back often, as updates will be made regularly as the program develops.
<https://recpro.memberclicks.net/assets/2012_Conference/2013_call_for_presen…> Click here to download the Call for Proposals and Abstract Submission Form package. You can also download the submission package at the website listed above.
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Brenda Adams-Weyant
Association Manager
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
(formerly NARRP)
PO Box 221
Marienville, PA 16239
(814) 927-8212
(814) 927-6659 FAX
<mailto:Brenda@RecPro.org> Brenda(a)RecPro.org
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IUFRO Meeting: Risk Analysis of Forest Invasive Alien Species (4.04.07 and 8.02.04)
New dates: February 27 - March 1, 2013.
New venue: Chandigarh, India.
Dear Colleagues,
If you missed the opportunity to register for the inaugural meeting of the IUFRO Risk Analysis (Unit 4.04.07) meeting - you have another chance.
We've rescheduled our joint meeting, and changed the venue. Now you can visit the exciting city of Chandigarh, India. Easily accessible by rail and air from New Delhi, Chandigarh is famous as a "planned city" designed by renowned architects Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry. We'll meet on the beautiful campus of the Panjab University.
Please visit our website (http://riskanalysis-iufro.org<http://riskanalysis-iufro.org/>) for registration details. We look forward to seeing you in Chandigarh.
Please share this announcement with your colleagues.
David Gray (Coordinator; IUFRO 4.04.07: Risk Analysis)
Ravinder Kohli (Coordinator; IUFRO 8.02.04: Ecology of Alien Invasives)
Dear colleagues,
We would like to inform you that the Journal for Outdoor Recreation and
Tourism (JORT) has now been launched officially. We are accepting
submissions of full academic papers and research notes. The first issue
will appear in January 2013.
Interested authors may submit papers at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jort
If you have any questions, please contact one of the Editors.
Kind regards,
p.p. Verena Melzer
Univ.Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl
Institute for Landscape development, Recreation and Conservation
planning
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Peter Jordanstr.82, A - 1190 Vienna, Austria
ulrike.proebstl(a)boku.ac.at
Dr. Wolfgang Haider
Professor
School of Resource and Environmental Management
Simon Fraser University
whaider(a)sfu.ca
Dear colleagues
Here is the first announcement of the conference "Modern problems of
foresty and forest management", which will be organized at St.
Petersburg State Forest Technical University in November 2012 :
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8777/1630/petersburg12-1st-announcement_…
You are very welcome to participate
Yours
Maxim
Dear IUFRO members,
The Final Conference of PARAmount a project funded by the Alpine Space
Programme of the European Union will be held on 23rd April 2012 at
Grenoble in parallel with the 12th Congress of INTERPRAEVENT (Grenoble, 23
26 April 2012).
The Final Conference is designed to bring together experts, researchers,
policy and decision makers, practitioners from various disciplines as well
as concerned stakeholders for an interdisciplinary, transnational exchange
of views on the further development of strategies and technologies for the
management of natural hazards threatening transport infrastructure and to
present the results of the project concerning the
Assessment of the vulnerability of transport infrastructure to natural
hazards
Improvement of the efficiency of measures necessary to protect transport
infrastructure against natural hazards and to increase its reliability and
security
Advancement of Decision analysis and support systems for an effective
management of transport infrastructure threatened by natural risks
Development of new concepts and approaches for assessing and monitoring
natural risks.
The objective of the concluding round table discussion will be to elaborate
recommendations for overcoming the identified barriers that might impede the
adoption of the developed approaches and concepts as well as to ensure a
successful knowledge transfer.
At the conference website
http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i
d=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b791bf5be92eabeab
4fbe>
&view=article&id=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b7
91bf5be92eabeab4fbe, you will find the Second Announcement for the Final
Conference of the PARAmount project including the detailed program. The
conference languages will be English, French and German. Interpretation will
be provided. It would facilitate the task of the organizers, if those who
wish to attend the Final Conference would register as soon as possible by
sending an email to the following address: final.conference@paramount-
<mailto:final.conference@paramount-project.eu> project.eu.
If you have any questions regarding the final conference, please do not
hesitate to contact any of the responsible persons listed below.
Kind regards
Marc Adams
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Contact person project communication manager:
Günter Siegel
BMLFUW - Abteilung Forstliche Raumplanung, Waldschutz und
Landschaftsentwicklung
Tel: + 43 (0)1 711 00 7125 <tel:%2B%2043%20%280%291%20711%2000%207125>
E-Mail: guenter.siegel@ <mailto:guenter.siegel@lebensministerium.at>
lebensministerium.at
Contact person project management:
Gudrun Schrömmer
PRISMA solutions
Telefon: +43(0)2236 47975 36 <tel:%2B43%280%292236%2047975%2036>
E-Mail: gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-
<mailto:gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-solutions.at> solutions.at
Contact person BFW:
Marc Adams
Department of Natural Hazards, BFW
Tel.: <tel:%2B43%20%280%29512%20573933%205177> +43 (0)512 573933 5177
E-Mail: <mailto:marc.adams@uibk.ac.at> marc.adams(a)uibk.ac.at
Dear Colleagues!
We invite you to take part in the International Conference RR 2012:
“Renewable Forest Resources: innovative development in forestry” that
belongs to a conference series on Renewable Resources.
Forestry is constantly adapting to new needs of the changing world. The
range of demands put on forest sector by society has considerably
increased in recent years. These changes require innovative developments
not only in the field of technologies and business, but also on policy
and management level, that will create the environment where innovations
can take place.
The aim of the conference is the discussion of various aspects of use of
forest resources and the presentation of Russian and foreign experience
in the introduction of innovative methods of forest management,
reforestation and forest use.
Representatives of authorities, scientific-educational and business
community of Russia and other countries are invited to participate in
the plenary session and round tables.
More detailed information can be find at : http://onlinereg.ru/RR2012/
Yours
Maxim
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Maxim Chubinsky
department of general ecology, physiology of plants and wood science,
executive director of ICFFI,
director of studies of FORPEC program,
contact person of CBU and EUROFORESTER in FTA,
Vice-dean of Forestry Faculty,
Institutsky per. 5,
St. Petersburg, RUSSIA,
194021
+7 911 026 10 24
+7 812 670 92 60
+7 812 670 93 63
Dear All,
We are pleased to inform you that we have a very exciting program for
International Conference on New Frontiers of Forest Economics, June
26-30, Zurich, Switzerland. We have four guest speakers and
presentations of 6 others papers. All these presentations will be
focused on some emerging areas of forest economics. Conference program
is available on the conference website.
Now, we are opening the registration for whoever is interested in the
conference. You may like to join us. As we have explained earlier in our
announcement of the conference, every participant of the conference has
to take a responsibility of a discussant of at least one paper. Hence,
all participants will be very active participants. The schedule of the
submission of comments by discussants is given on the website. You may
like to read the details of the conference on our website before your
registration.
The registration is open only for 20 people other than the presenters
and organizers. Hence, if you are interested you should register as soon
as possible because the registration will be closed as soon as we reach
the limit of 20.
To register please:
1) Visit http://www.neffe.ch/ and read about the conference.
2) Follow the link on the top of the homepage to the ETH site registration.
3) Register carefully and slowly (registration worked if you get an
email by ETH).
4) Login to your account and print a receipt.
If the paying process doesn't work properly or if you are not sure
whether paying worked:
5) please don't register twice but login to your ETH account and repeat
only the paying process just once.
If the payment still doesn't work, you will get an email from PayPal
within 3 days with a request to pay the sum of 320 CHF to Cycad AG (our
backoffice). Once paying works, you will get a receipt by email.
if the automated receipt is not accepted by your administration, please
write to mailto:maja.messerli@env.ethz.ch and ask for a more formal
receipt by ETH.
Shashi
Prof. Shashi Kant
Faculty of Forestry
University of Toronto
Dear List Members:
Linnaeus University is advertising a position for postgraduate study in
forest products. With the support of Swedish board manufacturers, Linnaeus
University has established a new field of research which focuses on
developing new environment-friendly board materials.
Deadline: 10 April 2012
For details, please visit:
<http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8488/95/nb-linnaeus-postgraduate-forest-
products_pdf/>
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8488/95/nb-linnaeus-postgraduate-forest-p
roducts_pdf/
Please distribute as appropriate,
Best regards
Brigitte Burger
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Mag. Brigitte Burger - Web Management
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
