Dear colleagues,
A tree on your doorstep is a forest in your mind - how can cities contribute to a European tree awakening?
The City of Ljubljana, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and the Brussels Capital Region have all recently been awarded Tree Cities of the World status (TCoW). Bringing together the three cities as a partner event of the EU Green Week, European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF), European Forest Institute (EFI) and CLEARING HOUSE project, invite you to join an online ‘tree awakening’ activity – focus - celebration of trees to build and strengthen existing relationships at a continental level.
The 2-hour interactive online event is targeted at practitioners, researchers, policymakers and everyone eager to explore ways to work together towards a greener and more resilient future in cities around Europe and beyond.
Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-tree-awakening-11-june-2021-tickets-156485….
The ‘tree awakening’ will follow the main theme of the life of a tree in the city, which will be explored by a range of high-level speakers and throughout a technical panel discussion, where participants have the opportunity to engage in an interactive Q&A session.
To round off the ‘tree awakening’, attendees and urban adventurers are invited to explore trees and forests around the City of Ljubljana, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and the Brussels Capital Region from anywhere around the globe or in-situ to as a self-guided tree discovery excursion to learn about the manifold opportunities and challenges urban green encompasses in these three areas.
See the PDF attached to have a look at the full programme.
Looking forward to seeing you online!
Looking forward to meet you
Rik De Vreese
European Forest Institute
Dear Colleague,
Please, below is the link to our 2nd World Conference Forests for Public
Health, S. Korea 2021!
<http://www.fphcongress.org> www.fphcongress.org
Call for abstracts and registration forms are open now!
I am looking forward to meet you in person at 3nd World Conference in 2023!
May health and happiness be with you and everyone around you.
Christos Gallis.
Dr. Christos Gallis,
Research Director,
Forest Research Institute,
GR-57 006, Vassilika,
Thessaloniki, Greece.
Tel.: +30 2310 461 172,3 ext. 215
Email: cgalis(a)fri.gr <mailto:cgalis@fri.gr>
Dear all,
I still possible to join this week’s events of the European Forum on Urban Forestry 2021: The Swiss Week. A range of free, virtual events will share philosophical thoughts on social isolation in consideration of the tree and discuss the role of green spaces facing urban densification.
You can browse through and access all events at the EFUF 2021 online programme https://efuf.org/programme/ or directly through the myEFUF app.
Have a closer look at the speakers of the upcoming events:
May 19, 11:00 – 12:00 CEST
Philosophical thoughts on social isolation: in consideration of the tree
Join Naomi Zürcher (Arbor Aegis) for a philosophical discussion, reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 isolation “imposed” and relating that experience to what we impose on our urban trees. In consideration of the tree – a critical sharing of tree reality and what the practice of URBAN Forestry should encompass – the enabling of trees’ communal connections rather than isolating them – an essential element in their well-being and thus ours.
May 20, 15:00 – 17:00 CEST
Green Spaces and Urban Densification
Planning strategies for the sustainability of built habitats: How do we realise the change towards the paradigm of nature-based cities? What are the barriers to implementation? How can we better involve stakeholders, and which integrative methods can enable active and balanced participation of the different actors? You are invited to join in an interactive discussion with a focus on new stakeholder approaches.
Speakers
o Sandra Bühler, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
o Michael Pfister, Drees & Sommer
o Christiane Gebhardt, Drees & Sommer
o Haris Piplas, Drees & Sommer
o Alexandre Hedjazi, Université de Genève
This webinar will be moderated by Bianca Bärlocher, Urban Green Polylogue
All webinars are free and held in English language. Join in via the myEFUF app or see the online programme for details.
https://efuf.org/programme/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fefuforg.w…>
PROGRAMME - efuf.org<https://efuf.org/programme/>
Host: ArboCityNet, Berne and Zürich University of Applied Sciences (BFH, ZHAW)
efuf.orghttps://efuforg.wordpress.com/myefuf/
Looking forward to interactive discussions and sharing urban forestry experiences online!
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to announce the 2nd webinar in our Division 6 series, to be held on June 25th, 14.00-15.00 hrs CEST (i.e. Amsterdam/Paris time). Focus of this webinar is on the life and work of forest scientists during a global pandemic. What have been the major challenges and how have people dealt with them? Was it possible to balance work and family? What are the impacts on careers and research? Has anything good come out of this?
In the attached flyer you can read more about e.g., the excellent panellists from different parts of the world. You will also find a Zoom registration link in the document.
Hopefully many of you will be able to make it!
Warm wishes,
Cecil
Dr ir Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, AFLI
Program Director, Master of Urban Forestry Leadership - https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/graduate-degree-programs/maste…
Professor, Urban Forestry (on leave)
Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, UBC
2045 - 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
E-mail: cecil.konijnendijk(a)ubc.ca<mailto:cecil.konijnendijk@ubc.ca>
http://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/cecil-konijnendijk
Dear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to our online symposium "Gaurishankar Conservation Area Revisited: Status of Current Research activities" as follows:
DATE: Friday, May 7, 09:15 AM CEST, 01:00 PM (NPT)
PROGRAM: see attached PDF, alternatively: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/aktivitaeten/detail/forschung-fuer-die-gaurish…
ACCESS LINK: https://oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/93417077969
NO registration required, symposium language: Englisch
Background:
Research activities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area (GCA) were initiated in 2015, with a kick-off meeting in Kathmandu on 22nd of April titled "Research Methodology for Integrated Forest Management in Gaurishankar Conservation Area, Central Nepal Himalayas". The subsequent ill-fated fieldwork campaign did not result in expected outcomes as it was suddenly interrupted by a massive (7.8Mw) earthquake, known as the Gorkha earthquake, which took place on 25th of April, 2015. The project team soon realized that pursuing the initial aims was impossible and hence a follow-up project was initiated in 2016, within the carbon offset project framework of BOKU University. The aim of the ongoing long-term carbon offset project is to provide scientific evidence for decisions that help to improve livelihoods, to increase resilience and to help overcoming negative consequences of the 2015 earthquake event, all embedded in an accountable carbon sequestration framework. For instance, a nursery was set up to enhance afforestation with the aims of increasing carbon, reduce erosion and for local production of construction and firewood.
The symposium presents the status of scientific research in GCA, both within and beyond the BOKU carbon offset project. It provides a platform to share current research of various disciplines, strengthens existing collaborations and establishing new links. The summary and discussion session aims at providing input fur future activities at GCA. Colleagues and friends from IUFRO are very welcome to attend and share their ideas, suggestions and perhaps identify potential collaboration.
Looking forward to welcome you at this virtual event!
With best wishes,
Viktor Bruckman
Dr. Viktor Bruckman
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria
Voice: +43-1-51581-3200
Mobile: +43 664 6127259
Email: viktor.bruckman(a)oeaw.ac.at<mailto:viktor.bruckman@oeaw.ac.at>
Web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/
Dear colleagues,
I would like to forward a message regarding our recent paper on a global review of forest biomass harvesting guidelines. On behalf of all authors, I wish you a stimulating read!
With best wishes,
Viktor Bruckman
Good day,
A recently published, open-access review paper led by Dr. Brian Titus, research scientist from the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, might be of interest to you:
Titus, B.D., Brown, K., Helmisaari, H-S., Vanguelova, E., Stupak, I., Evans, A., Clarke, N., Guidi, C., Bruckman, V. J., Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene, I., Kęstutis Armolaitis, K., de Vries, W., Hirai, K., Kaarakka, L., Hogg, K., and Reece, P. 2021. Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines. Energy, Sustainability and Society 11:10, published on April 14, 2021.
Available at https://energsustainsoc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13705-021-00281… and DOI: 10.1186/s13705-021-00281-w
This topical review of forest biomass harvesting guidelines was completed by 16 authors from 11 countries, covering 43 jurisdictions in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. Uniquely, the international team included information from guidelines from France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania and Japan that are not available in English - and hence may be of particular interest. (The review is an outcome of an OECD-sponsored workshop and thus relevant forest management manuals were reviewed in several cases where workshop participants were from jurisdictions that do not yet have specific forest biomass harvesting guidelines.) Below my signature is a list of authors and affiliations.
Of particular interest to some readers will be access to the raw data (i.e., consisting of direct quotations from original documents), included within a spreadsheet. This allows readers to explore the raw data and generate their own conclusions, or search for information relevant to their own interests, be this scientific research, policy-oriented questions, guideline development, forest management ideas, or any other topics of relevance to them. It is an aspiration of the authors that the spreadsheet of data be a publicly available "living" or "evergreen" document (courtesy of the Forest Stewards Guild) that can be updated or corrected as new guidelines are published - directions for contacting the Guild are in the spreadsheet. If you have general queries, please contact me and I will forward your message to Dr. Titus; if you notice errors or omissions in the raw data in the spreadsheet, or if you are aware of specific forest biomass guidelines that have inadvertently been overlooked, please contact Zander Evans or Inge Stupak - their contact information is in the main spreadsheet.
The review also contains a second spreadsheet with recommendations from past guideline reviews - to "give credit where credit is due", give readers direct access to exactly what past reviewers said, and to show how past recommendations were summarized by authors. As with raw guideline data, it is the hope of the authors that especially agencies developing their own guidelines will find this format helpful to their work.
A "blog" on this review for readers of the range of BMC (Biomed Central) journals may be of interest to you, or useful for sharing information about this paper with a general audience. "Helping ensure that forest bioenergy is environmentally sustainable" can be found at
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-physicalsciences/2021/04/15/forest-bioene…
Finally, please note that this review paper is part of a special issue of ESSO on Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes, edited by Inge Stupak, Tat Smith and Nicholas Clarke. This issue may contain related articles of interest to you regarding sustainability and governance mechanisms for forest bioenergy. The open-access issue is available at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/sbbb
I hope you enjoy this comprehensive and timely review, and find it adds value to your work. I look forward to receiving your feedback.
Kind regards,
Winnifred Hays-Byl
Director, Forest Innovation and Dynamics
Pacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada
Email: winnifred.hays-byl(a)canada.ca<mailto:winnifred.hays-byl@canada.ca>
Cell: 778-535-4182
Authors:
* Brian Titus, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada (now retired)
* Kevin Brown, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada (now at K.R. Brown and Associates)
* Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Elena Vanguelova, Forest Research, Surrey, UK
* Inge Stupak, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Alexander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild, New Mexico, USA
* Nicholas Clarke, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway
* Claudia Guidi, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
* Viktor J. Bruckman, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria
* Iveta Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
* Kęstutis Armolaitis, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
* Wim de Vries, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
* Keizo Hirai, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan
* Lilli Kaarakka, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
* Karen Hogg, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
* Pam Reece, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada (now at Stantec, Sidney, BC)
Dr. Viktor Bruckman
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria
Voice: +43-1-51581-3200
Mobile: +43 664 6127259
Email: viktor.bruckman(a)oeaw.ac.at<mailto:viktor.bruckman@oeaw.ac.at>
Web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/
Dear IUFRO FRIENDS
Please consider attending the upcoming FABI International Seminar (29th April at 16h00 GMT +2) to be presented by Dr Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold. Sandy is very well known to the IUFRO Community having (for example) served Division 7 (Tree Health) Co-ordinator and Chair of the Scientific Committee for our 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg in 2017. If you are interested in tree health, biological invasions or forests and forestry in general - this will be a seminar for you to enjoy.
To attend, it is necessary to register -please do so at https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/FABISerminarSeries/
Background information on Sandy’s talk can be found below and details of the FABI International Seminar Series is on the web site above.
Best regards
Mike
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Speaker: Dr Andrew Liebhold, US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV USA
Title: Macroecology of Insect Invasions
Date: 29 April 2021 Time: 16:00 (GMT+2)
Abstract: Biological invasions are largely an unintended consequence of globalization. With increasing mobility, humans have accidentally transported organisms around the world, breaking the geographical boundaries that separated species ranges that persisted for millions of years of evolution. Among animals, the insecta is the most species-rich class, with thousands of insect species having been established outside of their native ranges and many of these species causing immense impacts on agriculture, human health and conservation of native ecosystems. Here, I report on a macroecological analysis of historical insect invasions spanning 300 years and 10 world regions. These data are used to compare frequencies of invasions among different insect orders and among different insect families. Species-area relationships for native insect assemblages are generally stronger than for non-native insect assemblages. Certain groups, such as the Hemiptera, Formicidae and the Staphylinidae are generally over-represented in non-native insect assemblages, while other taxa are under-represented. These patterns generally reflect characteristics of these insects that cause them to enter important invasion pathways and biological characteristics that facilitate invasions. These results ultimately allow us to better understand the socio-economic drivers of insect invasions and can be of use when conducting invasive pest risk analysis.
Biography: Andrew “Sandy” Liebhold has been a research entomologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV USA since 1988. His research focuses on the ecology and management of biological invasions and the spatial dynamics of insect outbreaks. Liebhold received his PhD in Entomology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and worked as a postdoctoral at the University of Massachusetts before joining the Forest Service. He is a fellow of the AAAS and serves on the editorial board of the journals Population Ecology and Biological Invasions. He also currently serves as a scientific coordinator with the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and a visiting scholar with Scion Research in New Zealand.
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Dear colleagues in IUFRO Division 6
We begin with our sincere hopes that you, your families and your friends and colleagues are all managing to stay healthy (physically and mentally) during the pandemic. The simple phrase “How are you?” has gained new importance for us all.
We are all struggling with Covid-19 in our own countries and workplaces and it is inevitable that planning IUFRO activities has not been a priority. In a pandemic, virtual events offer possibilities, but planning these and organising the web-based platforms still takes more time than many of us have.
To overcome this, we have arranged a partnership with the organisers of the 20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference to include sessions for members of Divisions 6 and 9. This virtual conference is being hosted by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from 16-19 August 2021. More information is available here https://cfc2021.ubc.ca/ .
We are inviting you to join this conference with a 10 minute pre-recorded presentation (uploaded in advance) and by participating in a live discussion during daylight hours in your own part of the world. Although the conference is English, we think that pre-recording presentations will help everyone who is not a fluent English-speaker. Registration costs are very low, ranging $ 12 to $ 80 US. Please see the invitation attached. You do not have to be a resident of a Commonwealth country to participate in CFC2021.
Please contact Stephen Wyatt, Janette Bulkan or the CFC2021 organisers for more information.
Cecil Konijnendijk Coordinator Division 6 Cecil.konijnendijk(a)ubc.ca
Stephen Wyatt Deputy coordinator RG 9.03 stephen.wyatt(a)umoncton.ca<mailto:stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca>
Janette Bulkan Coordinator WP 9.03.07 janette.bulkan(a)ubc.ca<mailto:janette.bulkan@ubc.ca>
Stephen Wyatt
Professeur agrégé / Associate Professor
École de foresterie / School of forestry
Université de Moncton, campus d’Edmundston
Edmundston, NB, Canada
stephen.wyatt(a)umoncton.ca<mailto:stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca>
+1 506 737 5243
http://professeur.umoncton.ca/umce-wyatt_stephen/
<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=t8XQA08AAAAJ>Research Gate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Wyatt> , Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=t8XQA08AAAAJ>
Je reconnais que j’habite et que je travaille sur le territoire non cédé des Wolastoqiyik, gardiens traditionnels de ces forêts, terres et rivières.
I acknowledge that I live and work on the the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, traditional custodians of these forests, lands and waters.
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