Dear colleagues,
Below is the announcement of an interesting, urban forestry related
conference to be held in Kuching, Malaysia, during early October of this
year. IUFRO Research Group 6.07 Urban Forestry acts as co-organiser of this
meeting.
Kind regards
Cecil Konijnendijk
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From: Noor Azlin binti Yahya (Dr.) [mailto:azlin@frim.gov.my]
Sent: 9. august 2012 07:30
Subject: Announcement for Urban Forestry Conference 2012 - Kuching, Sarawak,
Malaysia from 2 - 6 October 2012.
Dear colleagues,
Once again the Forest Research Institute Malaysia will be organizing an
urban forestry conference UFC 2012, with the theme of Forests and Parks:
Communicating Messages for Sustainability which will be held in Kuching,
Sarawak, Malaysia from 2 - 6 October 2012.
Similar conferences were held in 2006 and 2009.
Please find attached the 2nd announcement and call for papers with extended
submission deadlines. The brochure can also be used for registration apart
from replying direct to this email after filling the registration
inforamtion in the this email body text.
Could you also please forward this information to others in your list of
contacts who may be interested.
For registration and any enquiries, kindly contact the below:
1) Sharmillah Saleh: sharmillah(a)frim.gov.my or +603 - 6279 7252
2) Nazimatul Azma Nazeri: <mailto:nazimatulazma@frim.gov.my>
nazimatulazma(a)frim.gov.my or +603 - 6279 7615
BACKGROUND
Sustainability of urban forests and parks is the current desirable trait in
park management. Sustainable parks can be described as self-sufficient with
regards to resource management as well as providing ecological and
socio-economic functions. Different cities within various regions in the
world have different experiences in park management. The conference will
provide opportunities for collaborations and information sharing on urban
forest and park development and management towards sustainability.
Communication is an important tool for sustainability where messages about
nature conservation and human impact can be related. Effective communication
will ensure sharing of responsibilities between managers and users.
The conference is organized with the following themes:
1. Ecological functions and sustainable resource management of urban forests
and parks.
2. Planning and design for sustainable green space.
3. Urban forest and parks to support environmental education.
4. Recreation programming for urban forests and parks.
5. Social needs on urban forest and parks.
OBJECTIVES
1. To share the best ways in communicating sustainability messages through
urban forests and parks.
2. To review the progress and status of urban forest and parks development.
3. To exchange information, ideas and to learn about sustainable urban
forest and park management.
4. To establish networking among participants from different countries for
possible collaboration.
PARTICIPANTS
Decision makers, urban managers, urban planners, landscapes architects,
urban foresters, park managers, arborists, landscape and tree care
contractors, academicians, NGOs, stakeholders and those interested in urban
forests and parks.
PROGRAMME
The programme includes keynote addresses, oral and poster presentations on
3rd and 4th of October 2012. Presentations from various aspects of urban
forest and park management will be the highlight of the programme. A
workshop will be held at a local urban park.
Pre and post tours will be organized on 2nd (Sematan and Gunung Gading), 5th
(Bako National Park) and 6th October 2012 (Serikin) respectively.
Participation is optional with additional charge.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
REGISTRATION FEE
The conference fee covers a full set of papers/proceedings, tea/coffee
breaks, lunches, conference bag, is as follows:
. Local - RM 800.00
. Student - RM 400.00 (excluding conference bag)
. International - USD 300.00
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference will comprise oral and poster presentations. Those interested
in presenting papers or posters should note the following dates:
1st September 2012 Submission of abstract
7th September 2012 Notification of accepted papers
21st September 2012 Submission of full papers
Please submit abstracts and full papers via email as an attached word
document to the secretariat at sharmillah(a)frim.gov.my
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS
i. Please prepare in Microsoft Word in Times New Roman font
ii. Title - bold, 14 pt and in uppercase letter
iii. Author's name(s) - bold and 12 pt
iv. Author's address(es) - 10 pt, no abbreviation, if more than one author,
please indicate address of each author numerically in superscript. Include
fax number(s) and email address(es)
v. Text of abstract - 10 pt, no abbreviations, no references, one paragraph,
not more than 250 words long. Plants names should be in italics or
underlined. Use standard symbols for measurement and the International
System -(S.I) for units.
vi. Reference should be written according to the APA Style:
<http://apastyle.org/> http://apastyle.org/
ENQUIRIES & CORRESPONDENCE
Please contact:
S E C R E T A R I A T
The Secretary
Urban Forestry Conference 2012:
Forest and Parks: Communicating Messages for Sustainability
Ecotourism and Urban Forestry Programme
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
Kepong
52109 Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
(Attn: Ms. Sharmillah Saleh)
Email : sharmillah(a)frim.gov.my
Tel : +6 03 6279 7252 / 7615
Fax : +6 03 6280 4625
Dr. Noor Azlin Yahya (Chair)
Email : azlin(a)frim.gov.my
Tel : +6 03 6279 7242 / 7243
Mr. Ahmad Azaruddin Mohd Noor
(Vice-Chair)
Email : azarudin(a)frim.gov.my
Tel : +6 03 6279 7234
Website : www.frim.gov.my
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REGISTRATION FORM
Name :_______________________________________________
Organization :_______________________________________________
Postal Address :_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Tel :_______________________________________________
Fax :_______________________________________________
Email :_______________________________________________
(Please tick)
*Status of participation
O Presenter O Non-presenter
*Dietary requirement
O Vegetarian O Non-vegetarian
*Technical visit to a local park will be arranged.
*Pre and post tours will be arranged with sufficient number of participants.
LATE CANCELLATION
50% surcharge will be imposed for late cancellation after 1st September 2012
MODE OF PAYMENT
Payment should be made either by cheque or postal order (local participant
only) or banker's draft. For outstation cheques, please include inland
exchange commission. Payment should be made payable to : Director General
FRIM.
I enclosed hereby cheque/postal order/ banker's draft
no._____________________amounting to RM/USD_____________________for the
conference.
Details as follow:
(Please tick)
O Registration fee - RM800/USD300
O Bako National Park - RM120/USD60
O Sematan & Gunung Gading - RM100/USD50
O Serikin - RM20/USD10
Dr Noor Azlin Yahya,
Head,
Ecotourism and Urban Forestry Prgrammame
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM),
Kepong, 52109 Selangor Malaysia
Tel : +6 03 - 6279 7242
Fax : +6 03 - 6280 4625
Email: azlin(a)frim.gov.my
noorazlin.yahya(a)gmail.com
Please Post to your members:
Urban Forests & Political Ecologies: Celebrating Transdisciplinarity *
*Toronto, ON - April 18-20th, 2013*
Registration is now open!
This three-day conference covers a wide range of topics related to urban
ecologies and political transgressions.
We are delighted to announce our *keynote speakers* and the panel themes
for the 2013 Conference:
1) Historical Narratives - Dr. Joanna Dean, Carleton University
2) Urban Tree Cultures: Identities and Perspectives - Dr. Owain Jones,
University of Gloucestershire
3) Social Inclusion in the Urban Forest: Scalar injustices and community
connections - Dr. Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
4) From Government to Governance: Redefining politics - Dr. Cecil
Konijnendijk, University of Copenhagen
5) Urban Ecology Pedagogies: Innovative approaches to education - Dr.
Richard Kahn, Antioch University
6) Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Urban Forest - Dr. Giovanna Di
Chiro, Nuestras Raices Inc., and Swarthmore College
The Call for Proposals is open until October 15th, 2012. We welcome
submissions from academics, graduate students, professionals, practitioners
and artists. We are particularly interested in inter-and-transdisciplinary
approaches and encourage artistic expressions and performance pieces. See
attached for Submission Guidelines.
For more information please visit: www.ufpe.ca
Warm regards,
UFPE Conference Committee 2013
Urban Forests & Political Ecologies: Celebrating Transdisciplinarity
www.ufpe.ca
Dear colleagues,
We would like to inform you that the Journal for Outdoor Recreation and
Tourism (JORT) has now been launched officially. We are accepting
submissions of full academic papers and research notes. The first issue
will appear in January 2013.
Interested authors may submit papers at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jort
If you have any questions, please contact one of the Editors.
Kind regards,
p.p. Verena Melzer
Univ.Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl
Institute for Landscape development, Recreation and Conservation
planning
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Peter Jordanstr.82, A - 1190 Vienna, Austria
ulrike.proebstl(a)boku.ac.at
Dr. Wolfgang Haider
Professor
School of Resource and Environmental Management
Simon Fraser University
whaider(a)sfu.ca
Dear colleagues,
SAVE THE DATE! April, 21 to 26, 2013
Starting this year the Executive Director of IUFRO Dr. Alexander Buck,
pointed out that Brazil offers great opportunities to research in
forestry. Subsequently, I was consulted by our colleague Tuija Sievänen
about the possibility of organizing an event in 2013 to Section 6.04.0,
Nature Conservation and Protected Areas.
I accepted the challenge once I understand this is a great chance to
thorough discussions as well as widely disseminate searches and scientific
works with a select group of Brazilian and international researchers.
I would like to announce the Conference "Protected Areas and Place Making:
How do we provide conservation, landscape management, tourism, human
health and regional development?"
When: April 21 to 26, 2013
Where: Foz do Iguaçu, Parana State, Brazil
Why there: We will have the opportunity to do a technical visit the World
Heritage Site, Iguaçu National Park (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/355) at
the Brazilian border and at the Argentina border at Iguazu National Park
(http://www.iguazuargentina.com/englis)
Soon we will have more information about key dates and a website will be
available. Please if you have specifically demands or doubts feel free to
contact Teresa Cristina Magro (teresa.magro(a)usp.br)
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Teresa Cristina Magro
Prof Protected Areas Management
University of São Paulo
Fone:+0055 19 2105 8650
Fax: +0055 19 2105 8601
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Teresa Cristina Magro
Profa Manejo de Áreas Naturais Protegidas
LCF -ESALQ/USP
Fone:+0055 19 2105 8650
Fax: +0055 19 2105 8601
Dear all,
I'm pleased to inform you that there will be a Gender and Forestry Conference on the theme Environmental governance and four decades of gender research: Where do we stand? To be held at Wondo Genet Forest College 27 November - 29 November 2012, with optional Field Tour 30 November - 2 December
It is organized by IUFRO 6.08 Units in cooperation with Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Wondo Genet Forestry College, Ethiopia and the project: Gender and REDD - Global Instruments and Changing Forest Governance
Read more about the Conference and Call for Abstracts on:
http://www.slu.se/en/faculties/s/about-the-faculty/departments/srh-en/secti…
The conference announcement is also posted in IUFRO Calendar of Meetings, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/, it is therefore in the activities page of your Unit, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60800/activities/. It is in our RSS feed, http://www.iufro.org/events/rss/, and will be in GFIS, the Global Forest Information Service, http://www.gfis.net/
Best regards,
Gun Lidestav
Coordinator IUFRO 6.08 Gender and Forestry Research Group
The journal Landscape and Urban Planning is currently soliciting proposals
for Special Issues. This call for proposals is a new process we are trying
with the aim of providing a more systematic way of receiving and evaluating
themes, content, and structure of special issues by prospective guest
editors. The journal will publish up to four special issues per year.
All proposals should be submitted by email attachment on or before July 1st,
2012 to LAND Editorial Assistant Ms. Ying Chen at yingchen1029(a)live.cn.
Inquiries should be directed to the Co-Editors-in-Chief Wei-Ning Xiang
(wnxiang(a)mail.ecnu.edu.cn) or Paul Gobster (pgobster(a)gmail.com) Full
details were published in an editorial published in the journal (V105:
345-346) and are available through the Editor's Choice Open Access Articles
link on the journal's website at:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/landscape-and-urban-planning/
PAUL H. GOBSTER, Ph.D., FASLA
Research Social Scientist
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
www.nrs.fs.fed.us
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Landscape and Urban Planning
www.elsevier.com/locate/landurbplan
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1033 University Pl., Suite 360
Evanston, IL 60201 USA
Tel: 001-847-866-9311 ext. 16
Fax: 001-847-866-9506
E-mail: pgobster(a)fs.fed.us
Web: www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/Gobster
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Dear colleagues,
Please find at
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8659/3020/zagreb12-call-abstracts_pdf/
information about an international conference in Zagreb, Croatia, to be held
during September 27-28 of this year. Topic of the event is "Forests for
cities, forests for People - Perspectives on urban forest governance".
Abstracts for this conference can be submitted until May 31.
Kind regards
Cecil C. Konijnendijk
Professor, Green Space Management
Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Rolighedsvej 23
DK-1958 Frederiksberg C
Denmark
Urban Forests & Political Ecologies: Celebrating Transdisciplinarity
Toronto, ON - April 18-20th, 2013
Submission Deadline: 15 October 2012
This three-day conference will cover a wide range of issues related to
urban ecologies and political transgressions. It is designed for
students, faculty, practitioners, community members, artists and
researchers of all disciplines who are interested in enhancing their
understanding of the various narratives that shape urban green spaces
and the pedagogies that contribute to engaging with those diverse
perspectives.
We encourage the submission of proposals that examine a variety of
subjects relating to urban forests and culture broadly conceived
within one of the six panel themes: a) Historical Narratives; 2) Urban
Tree Cultures: Identities and Perspectives; 3) Social Inclusion in the
Urban Forest: Scalar injustices and community connections; 4) From
Government to Governance: Redefining politics; 5) Urban Ecology
Pedagogies: Innovative approaches to education; 6) Adaptation and
Vulnerability in the Urban Forest.
We welcome submissions from academics, graduate students,
professionals, practitioners and artists. We are particularly
interested in inter-and-transdisciplinary approaches and artistic
expressions.
Submission Guidelines: There are three categories for submission: 1)
Oral Presentations; 2) Poster Presentations; and, 3) Art Exhibition.
Call for Oral Presentations: Each panel will include five speakers: a
keynote speaker, an academic paper presentation, a student paper
presentation, a practitioner and case study, and an artistic
expression or reflective piece (ie. illustration, performance, short
film, etc.) discussing how this area has been impacting society at
large (outside of academic research). Abstracts should clearly
indicate the preferred panel theme as well as what speaker category
you wish to be considered for.
Call for Poster Presentations: Posters will be displayed for the first
two days of the conference. Dimensions: 2x3 feet
Call for Visual Art Representations and Photo Essays (Art Exhibit): If
submitting for the art exhibit, please send a photograph of your
artwork along with your abstract.
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and are accepted until
October 15th, 2012.
To propose a paper, a poster or an artistic expression or performance,
please send all submissions via email to: submissions(a)ufpe.ca
Further information is available at the conference website: www.ufpe.ca
Co-hosted by:
Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Humber Arboretum & Centre for Urban Ecology
Best regards,
Adrina Bardekjian, MFC, PhD candidate (ABD)
Course Director, Urban Ecology
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Canadian Urban Forest Network, Ontario Representative
www.adrina.ca
abard(a)yorku.ca
Dear IUFRO members,
The Final Conference of PARAmount a project funded by the Alpine Space
Programme of the European Union will be held on 23rd April 2012 at
Grenoble in parallel with the 12th Congress of INTERPRAEVENT (Grenoble, 23
26 April 2012).
The Final Conference is designed to bring together experts, researchers,
policy and decision makers, practitioners from various disciplines as well
as concerned stakeholders for an interdisciplinary, transnational exchange
of views on the further development of strategies and technologies for the
management of natural hazards threatening transport infrastructure and to
present the results of the project concerning the
Assessment of the vulnerability of transport infrastructure to natural
hazards
Improvement of the efficiency of measures necessary to protect transport
infrastructure against natural hazards and to increase its reliability and
security
Advancement of Decision analysis and support systems for an effective
management of transport infrastructure threatened by natural risks
Development of new concepts and approaches for assessing and monitoring
natural risks.
The objective of the concluding round table discussion will be to elaborate
recommendations for overcoming the identified barriers that might impede the
adoption of the developed approaches and concepts as well as to ensure a
successful knowledge transfer.
At the conference website
http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i
d=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b791bf5be92eabeab
4fbe>
&view=article&id=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b7
91bf5be92eabeab4fbe, you will find the Second Announcement for the Final
Conference of the PARAmount project including the detailed program. The
conference languages will be English, French and German. Interpretation will
be provided. It would facilitate the task of the organizers, if those who
wish to attend the Final Conference would register as soon as possible by
sending an email to the following address: final.conference@paramount-
<mailto:final.conference@paramount-project.eu> project.eu.
If you have any questions regarding the final conference, please do not
hesitate to contact any of the responsible persons listed below.
Kind regards
Marc Adams
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Contact person project communication manager:
Günter Siegel
BMLFUW - Abteilung Forstliche Raumplanung, Waldschutz und
Landschaftsentwicklung
Tel: + 43 (0)1 711 00 7125 <tel:%2B%2043%20%280%291%20711%2000%207125>
E-Mail: guenter.siegel@ <mailto:guenter.siegel@lebensministerium.at>
lebensministerium.at
Contact person project management:
Gudrun Schrömmer
PRISMA solutions
Telefon: +43(0)2236 47975 36 <tel:%2B43%280%292236%2047975%2036>
E-Mail: gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-
<mailto:gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-solutions.at> solutions.at
Contact person BFW:
Marc Adams
Department of Natural Hazards, BFW
Tel.: <tel:%2B43%20%280%29512%20573933%205177> +43 (0)512 573933 5177
E-Mail: <mailto:marc.adams@uibk.ac.at> marc.adams(a)uibk.ac.at
Dear Colleagues!
We invite you to take part in the International Conference RR 2012:
"Renewable Forest Resources: innovative development in forestry" that
belongs to a conference series on Renewable Resources.
Forestry is constantly adapting to new needs of the changing world. The
range of demands put on forest sector by society has considerably increased
in recent years. These changes require innovative developments not only in
the field of technologies and business, but also on policy and management
level, that will create the environment where innovations can take place.
The aim of the conference is the discussion of various aspects of use of
forest resources and the presentation of Russian and foreign experience in
the introduction of innovative methods of forest management, reforestation
and forest use. Representatives of authorities, scientific-educational and
business community of Russia and other countries are invited to participate
in the plenary session and round tables.
More detailed information can be find at : http://onlinereg.ru/RR2012/
Yours
Maxim
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Maxim Chubinsky
department of general ecology, physiology of plants and wood science,
executive director of ICFFI, director of studies of FORPEC program, contact
person of CBU and EUROFORESTER in FTA, Vice-dean of Forestry Faculty,
Institutsky per. 5, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, 194021
+7 911 026 10 24
+7 812 670 92 60
+7 812 670 93 63
