Dear all
The call for abstracts for IUFRO 2017 session 99 “Adaptive spaces: can forest planning support innovative forest practice and knowledge co-creation?” is now open. The theme links governance, forest management innovation and practice, and climate change. We are looking forward to a diverse and lively session – please consider submitting an abstract! If you want to discuss your ideas, please contact one of the organisers (see below). To submit, go to http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/.
Session outline
Multiple sources of uncertainty affect future forestry, and hence current planning and practice. Rational hierarchical planning approaches are challenged by multiple crises including climate change and tree health. Conventionally practitioners are seen as the recipients of knowledge from science, and implementers of decisions from planners. However when they have to cope with uncertainty, practitioners are sometimes adapting and generating new knowledge through practice, trying out different species, silvicultural techniques and harvesting methods. Such developments contrast with the command-and-control approach based on scientific prediction, and can sit uncomfortably with the traditional characteristics of natural resource management organisations, which have been typecast as bureaucratic, hierarchical and slow to learn.
Recent analysis has highlighted the need to understand practice and knowledge co-creation, and to examine this through empirical research. This session explores two questions:
(1) how do forest practitioners (including forest managers, loggers, owners) cope with uncertainty? E.g. through developing new knowledge, based on flexibility, innovation and practitioners’ skills; and
(2) in what ways can forestry planning structures support practitioner innovation, knowledge co-production and integration of experiential learning with more conventional scientific knowledge.
The session is organised under IUFRO Working Party 4.04.08 on ‘Forest management for adaptation to climate change’. It is not restricted to climate change and will feature interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative research, combining ideas and framings from silviculture, organisational change, forest governance, and knowledge cultures. We will examine how knowledge is generated, tested, shared, adapted and adopted in management decisions; and how organisations, advisory services and decision processes may need to shift in order to accommodate this role for practitioners’ knowledge. The session is organised by researchers from different disciplines and three continents, who will also seek to include additional papers to widen the disciplinary and geographical coverage.
Best wishes
Anna Lawrence (University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, UK) – anna.lawrence.ic(a)uhi.ac.uk
Harry Nelson (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Marjanke Hoogstra (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Rod Keenan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Professor Anna Lawrence
Hon. Prof. of Human Dimensions of Forestry
University of the Highlands and Islands
Scotland, UK
e: anna.lawrence.ic.(a)uhi.ac.uk
Website: <http://www.cfc2017.in/> http://www.cfc2017.in/
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
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Von: schwarz [mailto:petra.schwarz@bfw.gv.at]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. September 2016 10:29
Betreff: First Call for Abstracts for the 3rd International Conference on Landscape and Human Health (Vienna, 17 - 19 May 2017)
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/
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 will be open from 19 September 2016 to 7 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
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.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: schwarz [mailto:petra.schwarz@bfw.gv.at]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. September 2016 10:29
Betreff: First Call for Abstracts for the 3rd International Conference on Landscape and Human Health (Vienna, 17 - 19 May 2017)
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 will be open from 19 September 2016 to 7 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
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.
Call for Applications for funding in 2017
The OECD Co-operative Research Programme (CRP)'s Call for
Applications for funding international conferences (such as workshops,
congresses and symposia) and research fellowship grants for funding in 2017
is now OPEN.
Applications must be submitted by the appropriate online
application form, available at:
http://www.oecd.org/tad/crp/crp-research-fellowships-and-conference-sponsors
hip.htm
Applicants must be nationals or residents of one of the
countries participating in our Programme.
The deadline to submit an application is Saturday 10
September 2016, midnight (Paris time).
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IUFRO NEWS 7, 2016
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We are happy to present to you issue 7 of IUFRO News 2016, volume 45.
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REFORESTATION CHALLENGES - OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN
A DEGRADED FORESTRY ENVIRONMENT
_The Second International Conference on Reforestation Challenges_ on
27-29 June 2016 in Cracow, Poland, offered an opportunity for scientists
to gather and present results and relate experiences from research areas
relevant to reforestation. MORE [6]…
STRENGTHENING COLLABORATION ON CRITERIA AND INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE
FOREST MANAGEMENT
About 40 internationally renowned C&I experts from all continents
representing regional C&I processes, national and international bodies
and organizations as well as national government agencies participated
in an international expert workshop on C&I that took place on 1-3 May
2016 in Ottawa, Canada. MORE [7]…
INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE-SHARING WORKSHOP: "FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION
AND GLOBAL CHANGE: FROM POLICY TO PRACTICE"
This workshop, which was held back to back with the High-level Bonn
Challenge Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on 26-27 July 2016, brought together
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experiences with initiating and facilitating FLR projects in the region.
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GOVERNMENTS RECLAIMING ROLE IN FOREST CERTIFICATION (IUFRO SPOTLIGHT
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Von: Jose G. Borges (joseborges(a)isa.ulisboa.pt)
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. August 2016 15:51
Betreff: Call for papers
Dear Colleagues,
The IUFRO Units 4.04.04 'Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling' and 4.04.06 'Nature Conservation Planning' are sponsoring a Special Issue on Decision Support for Integrated Policy Analysis to be published in Forest Policy and Economics (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability> ).
This Special Issue originates from an initiative of Working Group 2 “Forestry modelling for integrated policy analysis” of COST Action FP1207 “Orchestrating forest-related policy analysis in Europe (ORCHESTRA)". It addresses a topic that is relevant to the five themes of the IUFRO 2015-2019 Strategy and that is transversal to Divisions 3, 4, 6 and 9.
We welcome the submission of manuscripts reporting research of models, methods and/or decision support systems (DSS) that account for forest-related policy analysis at multiple levels and its application in real case studies. As currently, little information is available about decision support tools used for forest policy development, a special focus should be on the information provided by different types of decision support tools at different scales and on the benefits and limitations/challenges of the approaches presented. Particular attention should be paid to forest-related policy fields such as biodiversity, climate change, bioenergy, trade and green economy.
The deadline for manuscript submission: 30 September 2016
More information at: <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/call-for-paper…> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/call-for-paper…
Sorry for any crossposting. Please disseminate this information to whomever you think might be interested.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Jose G. Borges, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo and Marc E McDill
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José G. Borges
Professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
http://www.isa.utl.pt/home/node/369
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/
