Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd International Conference on Landscape and Human Health: Forests, Parks and Green Care which will take place in Vienna from 17 - 19 May 2017.
The conference, organised by the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW) and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent developments in the field of landscape effects on human health and well-being. For more information about the conference please visit our website: <http://www.landscapeandhealth.at> http://www.landscapeandhealth.at
We invite you to submit abstracts – for oral or poster presentation – for the conference focusing on one of the following topics:
1. Relationships between landscape and human health and well-being
2. Relationships between landscape-based Green Care offers and human health and well-being
3. Interdisciplinary communication and policy concerning landscape and health
The Call for Abstracts is open from 19 September 2016 to 21 November 2016. All abstracts should be submitted electronically. You will find detailed information about abstract submission on the conference website: <http://www.landscapeandhealth.at/index.php/call-for-abstracts> http://www.landscapeandhealth.at/index.php/call-for-abstracts
We are looking forward to your abstract submission. If you have any questions about the conference or abstract submission, please do not hesitate to contact us.
With best regards
The conference team
PS: We kindly ask you to forward this email to interested colleagues.
Website: <http://www.cfc2017.in/> http://www.cfc2017.in/
Brochure: attached
The world today is undergoing rapid socio-economic and technological changes, which have implications for the forest and environment sector, in turn affecting the ecological, economic and social well being of the people. The forestry sector must keep pace and adapt to these changes. The "Commonwealth" refers to the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of 53 sovereign nations that works together to achieve international goals such as Peace, Democracy and Consensus-building, Law, Human Rights and Development, Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development with greater trust and mutual understanding. Environment and forests are global resources and need to be focused upon by the global fraternity due to the pressures they are under as a result of the alarming growth in the human population, pressures that are being exacerbated by climate and environmental change. The year 2017 will be a key occasion for forestry professionals, academicians and all those interested in and associated with forestry sector in the Commonwealth; they will gather and share their experiences with a view to learn and develop a vision for the future that will involve inclusive and sustainable growth and development. The commonwealth forestry conferences have been held since 1920, when the first (Empire) Forestry Conference was held in London. Since then, the conferences have been held regularly to discuss various aspects of management of forests and focus the action on the changing priorities of the forestry sector.
The 19th Commonwealth Forestry Conference is scheduled to be held at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India from 3rd to 7th April, 2017. The ICFRE and FRI will be the Focal point of the conference, with support from MOEF & CC, Government of India and Commonwealth Forestry Association. The major theme of the conference will be: "Forests for Prosperity and Posterity"
Abstract submission
Abstract submission will be open until 7 November 2016, at <http://www.cfc2017.in/call-for-papers/> http://www.cfc2017.in/call-for-papers/, containing detailed instructions on how to proceed. The sub-themes are:
1. Biodiversity conservation and management
2. Livelihood and economic security from forests
3. Diversification, multiple use and sustainable harvest
4. Good governance in forestry
5. Forests and climate change
6. Forest and water
The CFC-2017 Secretariat is looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
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posted by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
DearColleagues:
Thecelebration of IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress “Interconnecting, Forest,Science and People” just starts. The call for abstracts is now open at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/, deadline of submission is November 30, 2016.
If you havedone work on forest education, I would like to invite you to submit yourabstract to the General Congress Theme I “Forest for People” session 183 ForestEducation.
This is sessionis organized by the Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education, a unique Task Force aiming to bring to together the different perspectives of theeducational environment. Non-governmental organizations, researchers andstudents are working together to shape the future of forest education. We applyinnovative methods and new ways to prepare for a bright future for the forestsector.
Session Description: There have been radicalchanges in the forest sector in past decades. Some major drivers of thesechanges are globalization of the economy, climate change, and new technologies andinformatics. These drivers are shaping not only forestry and forest industries,but forest education as well. Research in forest education will help toidentify new learning and teaching methods require to tackle the challengesfaced by professionals in a changing environment. This session is designed forsharing and discussing higher forest education teaching and learning. Theoverall theme of the session is Forest Education in a Changing Environment. Wewelcome research papers and case studies, on topics related to e-learning,latest education tools and technologies, communication, professionalcompetencies, professional certification, new perspectives on forest education,forest learning for climate change, educational policy, curriculum development,or other topics related to forest education.
We are looking forward to meet you in Septemberin Freiburg, Germany.
If you have any question please do not hesitateto contact Sandra_osu(a)yahoo.com
Sincerely,
Sandra Rodriguez, Ph.D.Universidad Autónoma de ChihuahuaCoordinator IUFRO-IFSA JTF on Forest Education
Lena Lacker
International Forestry Students´ AssociationCoordinator IUFRO-IFSA JTF on Forest Education
How wouldbe the life of an educator without students?
Dear colleagues,
there are many good reasons to visit Freiburg, and a special one the IUFRO
125th Anniversary Congress in September of next year. The call for
abstracts is now open for this congress at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts, where will also find the list of
accepted sessions. The deadline for abstract submissions is 30 November
2016.
“Gender and working conditions in tropical forests” (session 147) is the
session, which we prepared. Please look at the session outline:
Forest work is hard work everywhere, but especially under tropical
conditions. This work is done by numerous men and women to earn a
livelihood based on the use of forest resources, timber as well as NTFP.
Millions of these men and women work in formal employment, but many more
in informal occupation, mostly in developing countries.
Their working situations, as in other sectors or even more so, are
gendered, i.e. different for men and women. This refers to tasks, chances
of personal and vocational development, income as well as to the other
physical, social and organisational working conditions, which are changing
and becoming harder through deforestation, climate change and extreme
weather situations, urbanisation and globalisation. Gender and working
conditions in tropical forests are monitored and studied by
representatives of different disciplines, among them social scientists,
gender specialists, ergonomists and certification auditors. The aim of the
proposed session is to share current knowledge from their work, which is a
fundamental research field of the IUFRO gender group and subgroups as well
as IUFRO Division 3.
I ask you to submit your abstract for the session before the deadline –
please do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have. It would be
helpful if you would send the abstract at the same time to me.
Let me also draw your attention to four more sessions with topics
connected to the topic of our session: there are two more gender related
sessions and two sessions on ergonomic issues in the programme.
Looking forward to a great session in Freiburg next year,
Siegfried Lewark
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Prof. Dr. Siegfried Lewark
Universität Freiburg
Professur für Forstliche Arbeitswissenschaft /
Chair of Forest Work Science
Werthmannstr. 6
D-79085 Freiburg
Distinguished Professor
NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY
College of Furniture and Industrial Design
Longpan Road 159, Nanjing, Jiangsu
China
Dear colleagues,
I have the pleasure to inform you that the session on No. 148
“Innovative value added chains in forestry” in the Congress segment: All
Division 4 (Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management) Meeting for
upcoming IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg
Germany, 19-22 September, 2017 is open for abstract submission at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts. The deadline for abstract
submission is 30 November, 2016. If you want to discuss your ideas,
please contact one of the organizers (see below).
Session outline
The value added - from harvesting, processing and using the potentials
of (domestic) forest resources - to supply refined timber or non-timber
products or to provide touristic or green care services, continues to
increase the value of forested areas - a major part of Bio -Economy. The
paradigm of the cascade usage between material and energetic usage and
dividing high value from low value assortments - a particularity of
forestry - is in line with the European strategy of Circular Economy for
increasing resource-efficiency. Accordingly, this session aims to
present outstanding case studies of innovative supply chains that foster
rural-urban linkages and strengthen interdisciplinary interfaces. It
will also discuss methodological approaches such as calculation schemes
or the applicability of optimization and behavioral models to compute
the value added for certain administrative units. Such multi-method
approaches introduce interesting views for deriving a regional value
added, by capturing the most relevant input-factors and outputs along
the value added chain: from the supply of raw materials and the use of
products - to the profit made and taxes paid. That process can consider
horizontal and vertical interlinkages covering intermediate suppliers of
individual actors across the production chain. Multiplier effects like
that are extending the “chain concept” to a “network concept”. Therein
effects of CO2 sequestration or additional value added from introducing
carbon taxes could be included as well. Moreover, we welcome
contributions providing insights regarding the competitiveness of
regional and international value added chains or the latent conflict
between microeconomic interests and macro-economic benefits as valuable
inputs for the discussion. This Session situates, elaborates, and
further explains the theory of value chain, with focus on
interdisciplinary approach. It emphasizes crosscutting and motivations
for supplementing the “buyer-driven” and “producer-driven” modes of
global commodity chains in forestry. It considers horizontal and
vertical interlinkages covering intermediate suppliers of individual
actors across the production chains, as one of the elements of
bioeconomy.
The session is organised under IUFRO All Division Meeting 4 Forest
Assessment, Modelling and Management, but it is not restricted to AMM
and will feature interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative
research, combining ideas and framings from forestry as whole. The
session is organised by researchers from different disciplines, who will
also seek to include additional papers to widen the disciplinary and
geographical coverage.
Best regards, your contribution and looking forward to see you in
Freiburg!
Ljiljana Keca
Prof. Dr Ljiljana Keca
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry
Department of Forestry
Chair of Forest Economics, Policy and Organisation
Forest Economics, Trade and Marketing, Forest Policy
1, Kneza Viseslava street, Serbia 11030 Belgrade
Phone: + 381 (0) 11 30 53 959
Mobile: + 381 (0) 64 17 94 648
E-mail: ljiljana.keca(a)sfb.bg.ac.rs (Bussiness)
Skype: ljiljana.keca
Christian Hoffmann
European Academy of Bolzano Institute for
Regional Development and Location Management EURAC research
Bolzano
