Greetings to all Division 4 members!
We are only a week away from the 26th IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm and we wanted to provide you with some additional information about activities involving the Division. First, several administrative meetings with take place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and are listed below. Please attend the Division 4 Business meeting on Thursday 27 June at 18:00 in Room K23. A brief agenda is provided below, indicating that we will discuss the incoming officers and plans for the division for 2024-2029. We are looking for several officers, so please attend and volunteer!
One of the plans for 2024-2029 is to develop a Webinar Series that will include two webinars from each research Group. RG .01.00 has hosted a similar series for the past two years that has been very successful, and we would like to expand this to all of Division 4. We will be discussing this at the business meeting and would appreciate your suggestions and involvement.
DIVISION 4 ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS AT THE WC
Tuesday 25 June
18:00 – 18:50
WP 4.01.04 – Effects of environmental changes on forest growth - Room K12
WP 4.03.03 – Information management and information technologies - Room B6
RG 4.05.00 – Managerial economics and accounting - T5
19:00 – 19:50
RG 4.01.00 – Forest mensuration and modelling – Room K12
WP 4.02.01 – Resource data in the tropics - K14
Thursday 27 June
Division 4 Business Meeting – Room K23 18:00 – 20:00
Review of 2019-2024 Accomplishments
2024 – 2029 Officers
Plans for 2024 – 2029
As always, Division 4 is well represented in the World Congress Sessions, many of which are listed in the latest Div 4 Newsletter, which is available on our IUFRO webpage (https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/) under ‘Publications and References’.
Also, the full WC program can be found at: https://iufro2024.com/detailed-programme/. The format of the program does not identify sessions by Division specifically, but if you type ‘4’ or some more specific such as ‘4.01’, the program will list those sessions in which Division 4 members are involved or that should be of interest to our members.
Finally, we are continuing our newsletter as we move forward, and it will be more regular, as we have increased our capacity for this. Please be sure to respond when asked for information for the newsletter.
We hope to see you in Stockholm!
Bianca Eskelson and Don Hodges – Incoming Division 4 Co-Coordinators
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Welcome to the seventh Division 4 newsletter!
Greetings from the U.S.! The 2024 World Congress<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…> in Stockholm is a month away. We are well-represented in the sessions, and a full list can be found here<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>. Sessions highlighted by Division 4 members are provided below, but there are many more on the program involving Division 4 members. Also, the Division 4 Business Meeting will take place on Thursday, 27 June in Room D23 (18:00 - 20:00). I look forward to seeing many of you in June!
Thank you,
Don Hodges
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IUFRO World Congress Sessions and Meetings
Assessing forest sustainability through operations research
* Speaker: Monday, 24 June, 16:00 - 18:00
* This session is organized for WG 4.04.07 "Risk Analysis."
Economics of forest plantations in Latin America: advances, challenges, and opportunities
* Session: Monday, 24 June, 16:00 - 18:00
* Unit 4.05.03 participating
Socio-ecological conflicts in forest management: risks of (not) adapting?
* Poster sessions:
* Monday, 24 June, 12:30 - 13:15
* Tuesday, 25 June, 12:30 - 13:15 and 13:30 - 14:15
* Session: Friday, 28 June, 14:30 - 15:30
* This session is organized for WG 4.04.07 "Risk Analysis."
Administrative meeting of RG 4.05.00
* Tuesday, 25 June, 18:00-18:50
* Room T5
National perspective of Forest resources policy and governance in countries of Latin America under a sustainable perspective
* Session: Thursday, 27 June, 8:30 - 10:30
* Unit 4.05.03 participating
Planted Forests for Achieving a Sustainable Planet
* Oral presentations: Thursday, 27 June, 16:00 - 18:00
* Poster session: Friday, 28 June, 12:30 - 13:15
* Unit 4.05.03 participating
Division 4 Business Meeting
* Thursday, 27 June, 18:00 - 20:00
* Room D23
Work and employment in the forest sector: challenges and opportunities
* Friday, 28 June, 8:30 - 10:30
* This session is organized in collaboration between Thuenen Institute of Forestry, Forest Europe, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Labour Organization and IUFRO subunit 4.05.04
You can find other sessions, exhibitions and meetings here<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
Job Opportunities
Post-Doctoral Research Position in Forest Management<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>, University of Georgia
Assistant or Associate Professor of Forest Biometry<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>, School of Natural Resources, University of Tennessee
Calls for Papers
Call for submission to a special issue of Forest Policy & Economics: Taking stock of work and employment research in the forest sector<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
Submission deadline: 30 November 2024
Recent Work from Division 4
From Unit 4.05.01 - Managerial, social and environmental accounting
The ResAlliance project<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>
Title:
Landscape Resilience Alliance for Agriculture and Forestry in the Mediterranean Basin
The project, coordinated by the European Forest Institute (EFI), will run from 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2025. INRGREF (Tunisia) is part of the alliance with 15 other international partners.
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Objectives
ResAlliance is a thematic network project funded by the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Union. The aim is to provide foresters and farmers with the knowledge and tools they need to implement innovative landscape resilience solutions. It will collect and assess knowledge, gaps, barriers and good practices in Mediterranean countries for achieving landscape resilience, with a particular focus on climate resilience measures. To achieve that, ResAlliance promotes multi-stakeholder interactive initiatives at two levels: LandNet and LandLab and across thematic areas that will help set specific learning objectives to better address knowledge and implementation gaps: governance, management practices, technology and finance.
Partnership
In order to do so, 16 partners from the South, East and North of the Mediterranean Sea have come together to exchange good practices and challenges and discuss solutions:
The European Forest Institute (Spain, Finland), Etifor | Valuing Nature (Italy), The Hellenic Agricultural Organization (ELGO-DIMITRA-Greece), EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS – CERIDES (CYPRUS), PAU COSTA FOUNDATION (Spain), D.R.E.AM. ITALIA (Italy), The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-Germany), The Instituto Superior De Agronomia (ISA-Portugal), The Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC-Spain), The Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA-Spain), Jouzour Loubnan (JL-Lebanon), The National Institute of Rural engineering research, Water and Forests (INRGREF-Tunisia), The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute Of Chania (CIHEAM – MAICH-Crete), The Agenzia forestale regionale per lo sviluppo del territorio e l’ambiente della Sardegna (Italy), The European Federation of Agroforestry (EURAF-France), The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN- Switzerland).
Partners are working on fact sheets and surveys across the region to engage different sectors and propose solutions to the challenges facing forest ecosystems and agricultural landscapes.
In order to move the project forward, the INRGREF team, in particular Mr. Mohamed Ayeb and Mr. Samir Ghanem and Ms. Boutheina STITI (INRGREF-Tunisia), will prepare data sheets on best practices collected from different regions of the country, including forests, agricultural areas and oases.
For any questions, remarks or interest on the ResAlliance project, please feel free to contact Boutheina STITI (stitibou(a)gmail.com<mailto:stitibou@gmail.com>), Samir Ghanem (ghannemsamir7(a)gmail.com<mailto:ghannemsamir7@gmail.com>) or visit the project website at https://www.resalliance.eu/the-project/<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
From Unit 4.03.03 - Information management and information technologies
Integrated DSS for delivery of ecosystem services based on EU forest policies (DSS4ES)
Forest landscape management and planning deals with large-scale processes in an integrated and multidisciplinary manner, combining natural resource management with environmental and livelihood considerations. It involves management of production systems in an area large enough to produce vital ecosystem services and small enough to be managed by the people using the land and producing those services. The landscape approach considers human activities and their institutions as an integral part of the system rather than as external agents.
The first generation of decision support systems (DSSs) was typically designed to address relatively narrow, well-defined problems of single sectors. Over the past decades, there has been a pronounced trend toward the development of integrated multifunctional systems. Current advances in IT technology allow the development of advanced computer-based tools that can handle complex interactions between different land uses and support cross-sectoral decision-making. However, the achievements in computing power, mathematical methods and environmental models have not resulted in a large amount of DSS applicable for landscape management as DSSs used within each sector (forestry, agriculture, water management, urban areas) are still dominating.
In response to this in September 2023, the COST Action CA22141 “Integrated DSS for delivery of ecosystem services based on EU forest policies (DSS4ES)” was launched. The initiative is financially supported by the European Cooperation in Sciences and Technology (COST) funding program and aims to establish a research network for facilitating the conceptualisation and development of new methodological approaches in decision support systems including the interaction between forest and landscape management. The emphasis is on screening, evaluating and proposing existing and future tools to support holistic planning approaches to increase sustainable forest management, considering various ecosystem services and products addressing the associated risks and uncertainties.
The Action network has five working groups focused on data needed for decision-making, decision-making models and methods, user interface, integration into the resulting DSS and implementation in EU legislative conditions. The network has 76 members from different fields across forestry, landscape management or water management and agriculture who are involved in different IUFRO units as well. In this context, there will be a special DSS4ES administrative meeting at the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm this year. The meeting will be organized along with the meeting of the IUFRO unit 4.03.03 Information Management and Information Technologies on Tuesday, 25 June at 18:00 in room B6.
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Unit 4.05.03 - Managerial economics and accounting in Latin America
* Technical reports and research proposals:
* Castellanos Niño, Y y Marco Renau, J. (2023). Optimización del aprovechamiento de productos maderables de tres especies forestales comerciales en el departamento del Guaviare (departamento de la Amazonía Colombiana). Universidad de los Andes. Disponible en: https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000089/020756.html<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>
* Articles published in journals:
* Sarmiento, Miguel Angel, e Luiz César Ribas. 2023. “Payment for environmental services: a further analysis to a comparative study of the Brazilian and Argentine perspectives.” Revista Estudo & Debate 30 (1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.22410/issn.1983-036X.v30i1a2023.3254<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
* Hyde, William F., Morales Olmos, Virginia. General policy uncertainty: A crucial, yet overlooked, factor for the forest. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 163, 2024, 103223, ISSN 1389-9341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103223<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
* Chudy, R., Siry, J., Morales Olmos, V., Marcille, K., Himes, A., Mei, B., Baral, S., & Cubbage, F. (2023). Forest Conference Report No. 1, 2023. Journal of Forest Business Research, 2(2), 170–180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.62320/jfbr.v2i2.45<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
* Balmelli G, Gasparri P, Morales Olmos V. Economic analysis of alternatives for second rotations in Eucalyptus globulus plantations in southeast Uruguay. Agrociencia Uruguay [Internet]. 2023; 27:e976. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31285/AGRO.27.976<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
* Franco Schinato, M.C. Munka, V.M. Olmos, A.T. Bussoni, Microclimate, forage production and carbon storage in a eucalypt-based silvopastoral system, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 344, 2023, 108290, ISSN 0167-8809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108290<https://tennessee.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49366914ac54caa993cfc8…>.
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Dear Colleagues in IUFRO Divisions 3 and 4,
I am happy to share a call for abstracts from IUFRO Units 3.04.01 and 4.04.04. If you are working in the fields of wildland fires and optimization, this would be a great opportunity to share your research and network with peers.
Best regards,
Woodam
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Call for abstracts
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Optimization and Wildfire Conference
October 1-4 2024, Luso, Portugal
https://ow.dps.uminho.pt/
We invite the submission of abstracts for the Optimization and Wildfire Conference to be held in Luso, Portugal, from the 1st to the 4th of October.
We have the honour to have as keynote speakers three distinguished personalities of the area:
- David Martell (University of Toronto),
- Yu Wei (Colorado State University), and
- José Borges (University of Lisbon).
The conference location is in a landmark Portuguese forest (Mata do Bussaco, a managed forest since the XVII century) in the center of Portugal, a region that was tragically devastated by wildfires in 2017.
We believe the conference, with the support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology through project O3F - An Optimization Framework to reduce Forest Fire (https://o3f.dps.uminho.pt) will result in a vision of the state-of-the-art and the identification of emergent topics in O&W, affirming the relevance and potential of Operational Research, Optimization and related areas in wildfire management.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts (max 1500 characters) is May 31st, 2024.
All the conference details are available at the website: https://ow.dps.uminho.pt.
We look forward to seeing you in Portugal.
Best regards,
Filipe Alvelos, chair
Isabel Martins, co-chair Program Committee
Ana Maria Rocha, co-chair Organizing Committee
