Von: Sheila Ward <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. März 2021 00:04
Betreff: Join the e-list for IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics
Dear Colleagues:
You are invited to join the e-list for IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics, at https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/ We are focusing the unit on the discovery, curation, and use of legacy tropical forest datasets.
Much legacy data for tropical forests, including inventory and plot data, are in danger of being lost. Many tropical forest projects over the years have generated data, but the information is scattered among different institutions and people, some still only on paper, some digitized but in older formats.
These legacy datasets are invaluable for understanding how tropical forests change through time, including the cumulative impacts of land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity. change in land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many of the forests represented in historical datasets no longer exist, so these data are the only record of the natural vegetation of the area.
There is also a need to develop a set of standard descriptive metadata, or a metadata scheme, for describing these datasets. This would assist not only with recovering and describing old data sets, but also ensure that future datasets can be consistently described and that their loss can be avoided in the future.
The first step is to review datasets referred to in older meta databases (e.g., ATROFI-UK and TROPIS) to determine if they are still available, and if they are in need of updated electronic curation. We are also reaching out via electronic media and networks, to find additional legacy tropical datasets and information on these studies. The next steps will be to develop an updated metadatabase regarding these datasets, develop with stakeholders policy on ownership and appropriate use, seek funding, and electronically curate such datasets.
We invite your participation in the e-list to discuss these and related topics.
IUFRO 4.02.01 Coordination Team
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/40201/
The European Forest Institute (EFI)<http://www.efi.int>, the European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF)<http://www.efuf.org> and the Horizon 2020 CLEARING HOUSE project<http://www.clearinghouseproject.eu> invite you to two days of integrated activities on urban forestry (March 23-24 2021). This on-line event is targeted at advanced practitioners, established researchers, sector leading policymakers and those wishing to learn of the latest developments in Europe and beyond. A special focus for this conference is Sino-Europe collaboration. The conference will be run in English with Mandarin translation.
Day one is themed on integrated urban forest management with a focus on the ‘sustainable transition of cities’ and ‘urban forestry and the pillars of sustainability’. In addition to keynote speakers, ‘a tour of management models’ with leading practitioners will cover different European bioregions and beyond. Participants will also be able to attend a ‘virtual fieldtrip’ with ‘live stream Q&A’ from the Kottenforst, a peri-urban forest near Bonn in Germany.
Day two is themed on urban forests and health infrastructure. Keynote speakers will outline what medical science is telling us about forests as health infrastructure followed by a thematic workshop on ‘forests and urban greenspaces in pandemic times’. The second day will also see the launch of EFUF 2021; a decentralised networking programme running from March to May 2021 with many diverse events. The new MyEFUF App will also be unveiled at the conference.
The full programme of the Urban Forestry Days you can find here<https://efi.int/sites/default/files/files/events/2021/Programme_UrbanForest…>!
The registration can be accessed here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-forestry-days-2021-tickets-135986369893>.
To get a feeling of what to expect at the Urban Forestry Days, you can watch the conference trailer here<https://youtu.be/nmeTiTkjFuw>.
Dear IUFRO Division 6 colleagues,
We are approaching the maximum capacity for this online webinar on March 19th. Don't forget to secure your place. Sign-up details are provided in the attached flyer.
Kind regards,
Cecil
(Cecil Konijnendijk, IUFRO Division 6 Coordinator)
Von: José G Borges <joseborges(a)isa.ulisboa.pt<mailto:joseborges@isa.ulisboa.pt>>
Gesendet: Montag, 01. März 2021 13:02
Betreff: Dissemination of Special issue sponsored by IUFRO
Special Issue "Non-Wood Forest Products Management: Inventory, Planning, Governance, Marketing and Trade"
Dear Colleagues,
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO Units 4.04.04-Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling and 5.11.00-Non-Wood Forest Products and the IUFRO Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products) as well as the 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2021) are sponsoring this Special Issue of Forests (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests)
We welcome the submission of manuscripts for publication in this Forests special issue (SI). There are a myriad of opportunities to unlock the full potential of NWFPs, such as creating new knowledge and tools to optimize the sustainable provision and profitability of NWFPs, fostering the development of market conditions for NWFPs, and developing economic and governance strategies for the better management of wild forest products-particularly in low-income countries. Thus, this SI aims at contributing to the dissemination of research endeavors involving the development of models, methods, processes, and decision support tools to address the inventory, planning, harvesting, governance, certification, marketing, and trade of NWFPs. This will be influential to strengthen the NWFP knowledge base and of research strategies to support the full encapsulation of NWFPs in the framework of the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. Papers submitted for publication in this Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer review process with the aim of prompt and wide dissemination of research results and applications.
More information at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/non-wood_forest_products
Best regards,
Emin Baskent, Jose Borges, James Chamberlain, Davide Pettenela, Carsten Smith-Hall, Yu Wei
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José G. Borges
Coordinator of the Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
https://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/en/cef/about
Coordinator of EMMC Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDfOR)
http://www.medfor.eu/
Coordinator of IUFRO Group Sustainable forest management scheduling
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40400/40404/https://publons.com/researcher/894961/jose-g-borges/http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v5ZUmqkAAAAJhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/J_Borges
Dear IUFRO Division 6 colleagues,
We are looking for contributions for a special issue of the journal Arboriculture and Urban Forestry, on the topic of "Smart Urban Forestry-Digital technologies and data for planning, design, and management"
Cities are increasingly data-driven, and there is a growing interest in understanding how citizen engagement, connected technology, and data analytics can support sustainable development. Evidence has also repeatedly shown that green infrastructure such as urban forests address diverse urban challenges and are critical components of urban sustainability and resilience. It is thus timely to assess the role of urban forests and other green spaces in smart city planning. As technology becomes more ubiquitous in urban environments, and as pressure to maximize green benefits for all city dwellers rises, it is worthwhile for researchers and practitioners to consider associated challenges, opportunities, and implications for tree care and urban forest management. This special issue of AUF addresses current knowledge gaps by exploring how the planning, design, management, and use of urban trees, urban forests, and green infrastructure can be integrated into smart city planning. It will look at how digital technologies can be jointly used as tools to improve the delivery of forest benefits and enable stakeholder participation and engagement, for example, through citizen science.
Contributions to this special issue can cover one or more of the following topics:
* Understanding data quality for urban trees: technological challenges and opportunities.
* New technologies for data collection and data sharing in urban forestry: mobile applications, web
* dashboards, remote sensing tools and methods (unmanned aerial vehicles, ground-based sensors, etc).
* Data-driven coproduction of urban forestry knowledge by scientists, managers, and the public.
* Novel sources of data and new methods for arboricultural and urban forestry research.
* Uses for and implications of open data in arboricultural and urban forestry research.
* The role of smartphones and other mobile devices: volunteered geospatial information for
* design, planning, and management.
* The impact of automation and artificial intelligence on tree care.
* Ethical implications of 'smart approaches' to arboriculture and urban forestry.
Abstracts are due April 15th and full papers June 1st. Further details are provided in the attachment.
Kind regards,
Sophie Nitoslawski and Cecil Konijnendijk, guest editors
(Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia)
