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From: Jim C <jachambe(a)vt.edu<mailto:jachambe@vt.edu>>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:23:06 -0400
Subject: Task Force Webinar Series
Aloha, please share this widely! The Task Force on Nontimber Forest Products and the Bioeconomy are starting a series of presentation. This intended to let people know.
Please join us for a new webinar series<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.srs.f…>! The IUFRO Task Force "Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Nontimber Forest Products" with partners is cohosting a series of presentations to explore how NTFP are integrated into a bioeconomy. A bioeconomy can reduce environmental impacts of economic growth through science-based management that promotes sustainable production. In this series, experts from around the world will share research on nontimber forest products within a bioeconomy concept.
The first webinar will be Tuesday, August 31, 7:30-8:30 a.m. ET. Register<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…> for the webinar. The attached flyer provides more information on this month's speaker.
The series will feature monthly webinars over the next year, leading up to the UN FAO XV World Forestry Congress in May 2022. "Building a Green Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests" is the theme and the Congress will be held in South Korea.
Learn more about the bioeconomy and the webinar series<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.srs.f…>.
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Dear colleagues,
A global network for young forest professionals is currently under
development. As the Inaugural Board works toward launching the Network in
May 2022, we would like to seek your input on what would benefit you most
in terms of services and structure of the *Global Network for Forestry
Young Professionals (ForYP)*.
Share your thoughts by responding to this survey. The survey is available
in English <https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/ForYPsurvey>, Chinese
<https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/ForYPsurveyChinese>, French
<https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/ForYPsurveyFrench>, and Spanish
<https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/ForYPencuesta>. Completing the survey will
take approximately 5-10 minutes of your time. All responses received from
this survey will be held confidential by the Board and used exclusively to
inform our decisions as we build the Network. We will only contact you if
you indicate you want us to do so. The survey will be accessible until *August
10, 2021*.
You can read more about the concept of the ForYP here
<https://inpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FoYP-Inaugural-Board-Informati…>
.
Thank you very much for your interest and time. We look forward to hearing
your valuable insights.
Kind regards,
Maria Paula Sarigumba
Communications and Marketing Director, ForYP
Sven Wunder, David Kaimowitz, Stig Jensen, Sarah Feder
Much uncertainty persists about how the coronavirus (COVID-19) and its derived crisis effects will impact both the economy and forests. Here we conceptualize a recursive model where an initial COVID-19 supply-side shock hits first the Global North that, mediated by country-specific epidemic management strategies and other (fiscal, monetary, trade) policy responses feeds through to financial markets and the real economy. Analytically we distinguish two stylized scenarios: an optimistic V-shaped recovery where effective policy responses render most economic damages transitory, versus a pessimistic pathway of economic depression, where short-run pandemic impacts are dwarfed by the subsequent economic breakdown. Economic impacts are transitioned from the global North to the South through trade, tourism, remittances and investment/capital flows. As for impacts on tropical forests, we compare the effects of past economic crises to early indicators for incipient trends. We find national income and commodity price effects to be torn between three forces: a contractive-inflationary supply-side shock, deflationary pandemic demand-side effects, and expansive-inflationary monetary and fiscal policy responses. We discuss how global forest outcomes will depend on how these macroeconomic battles are resolved, but also on geographical differences in deforestation dynamics. Reviewing recent fire and deforestation alerts data, as well as annual tree-cover loss data, we find that deforestation-curbing and -enhancing factors so far just about neutralized each other. Yet, country impacts vary greatly. Changing macroeconomic scenarios, such as fading out of huge economic stimulus packages, could change the picture significantly, in line with what our model predicts.
The article is freely available for 6 months here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934121001428
Von: Lukas Giessen <lukas.giessen(a)tu-dresden.de>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2021 20:35
Betreff: FP&E: recent journal developments
Dear colleagues of Div9 and Div6 mailing lists,
with great pleasure (and some pride) we want to inform you of some continuously positive developments regarding FP&E:
* With 223 articles published in 2020 the journal achieved an all-time high in mere article numbers
* We achieved this at a still increasing rejection rate, well above 60%
* Our average review speed continues to increase, shortening times in which authors wait for decisions (https://journalinsights.elsevier.com/journals/1389-9341/review_speed )
* Our editorial team increased to 10 Editors , handling papers swiftly (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/editorial-boa… )
* The just released 2020 Journal Impact Factor increased to now 3.673 (https://journalinsights.elsevier.com/journals/1389-9341/impact_factor ),
* ranking Q1 in many categories
* ranking e.g. 47/125 in Environmental Studies; 75/376 in Economics; 5/67 in Forestry,
* The Cite Score increased to 6.5
* Ranking Q1 in many categories
* Ranking e.g. 39/1269 in Sociology & Political Science; 47/661 in Economics & Econometrics; 10/142 in Forestry
* The recently established article category of Commentaries hosts science-based, peer-reviewed, short communications formulated as one of the following types (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics ):
* Science Critiques: critically discuss previous research
* Research Trends: identify emerging empirical phenomena that should be addressed by future research
* Policy Forum: short pieces on contemporary, internationally relevant forest-related policy issues that enable researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to make timely contributions to policy debates.
We would appreciate if you forwarded this information to your faculty and other peer colleagues and mailing lists, who might be interested in publishing with FP&E in the future. And finally we are looking forward to receiving your best manuscripts for reaching out to our global audience.
With best regards on behalf of the Editorial Team,
Lukas Giessen
Prof. Dr. Lukas Giessen
Chair of Tropical and International Forestry; Technical University Dresden, Germany<https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/inter/tropen/die-professur/inhaber-in…>
Editor in Chief of:
- Forest Policy and Economics<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/> (Elsevier)
- Knowledge to Action K2A (EFI) <https://efi.int/publications-bank/k2a>
Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=voULQt4AAAAJ&view_op=list_wo…>
ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukas_Giessen>
Dear IUFRO division 6 colleagues,
For those of you who missed our webinar on the life and work of forest scientists during a global pandemic, you can now watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn1YA3xORMs&t=3533s.
The webinar featured Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann, Purabi Bose, Sophie Nitoslawski, and Nic da Schio. They generously share their experiences during the lockdown, e.g., with managing and even advancing their research and careers, balancing work and private life, social activism, and how to survive those many online meetings.
Kind regards,
Cecil
(Cecil Konijnendijk, Division 6 Coordinator)
