De : Ljusk Ola Eriksson [mailto:Ljusk.Ola.Eriksson@slu.se]
Envoyé : mercredi 6 mars 2013 06:56
À : Ljusk Ola Eriksson
Objet : ELI members: FORSYS 2013 – One week left for Early Bird Registration for International conference on Decision support systems

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Take advantage of the Early bird registration until March 13th

FORSYS 2013 – International conference on Decision support systems
for Sustainable Forest Management

http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/

April 24-26, 2013, Umeå, Sweden

Take advantage of the Early bird registration until March 13th

FORSYS 2013 is the final event of the FORSYS COST Action. FORSYS has brought together developers and users of forest DSSs from more than 30 countries. The 2013 international conference should gather expertise from different areas related to forest DSS to form a comprehensive picture of problems and opportunities. The following main areas will be covered:

Themes

· DSS serving different clients (forest policy, participation and multiple objectives, family and company forestry)

· Specific ecosystem services and the role of DSS: (timber and non-timber goods , regulatory services, cultural services)

· Generic methods for DSS (ontology, optimization, risk assessment)

Key notes

· Jose Borges: Associate Professor, Department of Forest Engineering of Instituto Superior de Agronomia of the Technical University of Lisbon

· Katharina Helming: Dr. sc. agr., Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

· Florian Kraxner: Deputy Program Leader of Ecosystems Services and Management Program, IIASA

· Laurent Mermet: Professor of Environmental Management, AgroParisTech

· Mikael Rönnqvist, professor at Université Laval, Canada Research Chair in "Operations Research in Natural Resources"

· Sandor F. Tóth: Associate Professor of Natural Resource Informatics, University of Washington

Draft program on http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/program.html

Abstracts

We have a full program of presentations but would still able to accommodate a few more. Thus:

Additional Abstracts are Welcome until Friday March 10^th

for notification in due time for early bird registration.

For instructions, see http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/abstracts.html

Contacts

See http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/contacts.html.

See you in Umeå /OlaEriksson

FORSYS chair

Professor Ljusk Ola Eriksson

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Department of Forest Resource Management
Forest Planning
SE-901 83 UMEÅ
Visiting address: Skogsmarksgränd
Phone: +46 90 786 83 78

Fax: +46907868111
Ljusk.Ola.Eriksson@slu.se, www.slu.se/srh