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)
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From: "Smith, Ryan" <ryan.smith.rts48(a)yale.edu<mailto:ryan.smith.rts48@yale.edu>>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:27:12 +0000
Subject: Invitation to attend the International Society of Tropical Foresters' 27th annual conference, Feb. 18th – 20th, virtual
Dear Colleagues,
The Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) invites you to register for our 27th Annual Conference: “Timelines and Critical Junctures: Re-examining Crises as Opportunities for Change.” The conference will take place virtually on February 18-20th, 2021.
The Yale ISTF Chapter is dedicated to the advancement of tropical forest studies at the Yale School of the Environment, formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The ISTF conference has been hosted at Yale for 26 years and addresses a range of socio-ecological issues across the tropics. The 2021 conference will bring together an international community of academics, practitioners, activists, policy makers, artists, journalists and community leaders to re-examine crises as opportunities for change. This year, the conference seeks to investigate crises as moments of learning and opportunities to set forth on new trajectories. Seizing these moments requires us to reflect on the interconnected nature of society, economy and the environment while motivating efforts to mitigate future events in light of our past successes and failures in capitalizing on these moments in time.
While the conference will unfortunately not be held in-person as per tradition, we hope that the online format will allow wider access and participation from attendees around the world, especially for participants and speakers that have historically faced difficulties with travel to the United States.
To see our full agenda and to register, visit our website at https://istfconference.events.yale.edu/.
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Ryan Smith, Masters of Forestry Candidate
607-738-5600
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