Dear members of the IUFRO Division 8 List,
I am a PhD student from Bocconi University, member of the UNFF Children and Youth Major Group.
Together with Prof. Valentina Bosetti, a lead author of the Fifth IPCC Report, I am working on a research project on deforestation.
To carry out our research we have constructed a survey:
https://unibocconi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9SrYlUWHcKVTijr
If you have 8 minutes to complete it, it would give a significant contribution to our research and to my work for my PhD dissertation.
Participants can win $100 Amazon gift cards.
Forest experts from a wide array of countries and organizations have already completed this survey, and having your perspective would be really valuable to us.
The aim of our research project is to investigate how different actors perceive, conceptualize and frame the problem of deforestation, the different strategies to address it, and the related challenges.
We will gather the data only for research purposes and all data will be kept confidential.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Best regards,
Silvia Pianta
VSRC - Princeton University
PhD Student in Public Policy
Bocconi University
+1 2037729976
+39 0258362501
Von: Marzano, Mariella [mailto:Mariella.Marzano@forestry.gsi.gov.uk]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Mai 2018 16:52
Betreff: Call for papers on the topic of "Understanding Forest Health
under Increasing Climate and Trade Challenges: Social System Considerations"
Working Party 7.03.15 "Social Dimensions of Forest Health" would like to
announce a call for papers on the topic of "Understanding Forest Health
under Increasing Climate and Trade Challenges: Social System Considerations"
for a special issue of Forestry. Abstract is below and further details can
be found here:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/climate_health
Forest health is increasingly influenced by climate change as well as
growing globalization and trade. Climate change results in species movement
and species that have earlier had more limited impacts can potentially
spread and gain impact under changing conditions. However, through the large
plant trade and inadvertent movement of species (such as pests or fungi in
soil) forest health is increasingly impacted by species not only originating
in nearby areas but also from far away areas of the globe. As a result, new
forest plant risks may occur that have largely been unprecedented, and with
a potential that has been little managed so far in legislation and policy
that may be more oriented towards supporting free trade. This special issue
highlights the social system considerations around forest health: the ways
in which specific legislative and policy systems, at the national, regional
or local level, aim at regulating or managing increasing forest pest or
invasive species risks and outbreak events, and the ways in which policy
instruments, technologies or means of interaction, routines or engagement
can be developed to manage plant pest and invasive species. This special
issue thereby illustrates the possibilities and limitations in specific
socio-economic and political systems to manage and limit the impacts of
increasing challenges to forest health under climate change and
globalization.
Deadline for manuscript submissions is 15 November 2018!
Dr Mariella Marzano
Social and Economic Research Group
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian
Scotland
EH25 9SY
Direct line: 0300 067 5954
On behalf of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, you are
kindly invited to the CONFERENCE SESSION "HOW TO ADVANCE FORESTRY FOR FUTURE
GENERATIONS" organized within the 15th INTERNATIONAL PHYTOTECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE to be held at the University of Novi Sad, Central building,
located in Novi Sad, Serbia, October 2-3, 2018.
The Conference session is dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the
foundation of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment
DEADLINES
Abstract submission July 15th, 2018
Notification of abstracts acceptance August 31st, 2018
Submission of full papers December 1st, 2018
Issue of Proceedings March, 2019
Further details can be found in the attached document or at
www.ilfe.org/old/IPS%202018/Second%20announcement%20Final.pdf!
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the ESNA Committee and Local organizing committee it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 47-th Annual Meeting of our Society to be held in Craiova, Romania. The host of the ESNA meeting will be the Faculty of Agronomy – University of Craiova.
Craiova, Romania's 6 th largest city and capital of Dolj County, is situated near the east bank of Jiu river, in central Oltenia. It is a longstanding political center, and is located at approximately equal distances from the Southern Carpathians (north) and Danube River (south).
We hope we will all have a memorable and scientifically stimulating meeting in Craiova and we look forward to meeting you here in September 2018.
Welcome to Craiova, Romania!
Prof.assoc. M. NICULESCU, PhD.
Vice-Dean
Faculty of Agronomy
University of Craiova
Departament of Botany
19 Libertatii street, 200583
Craiova
Romania
00 40 251 418475
00 40 730 447200
Von: Marušák Róbert [mailto:marusak@fld.czu.cz]
Gesendet: Montag, 21. Mai 2018 11:12
Betreff: Landscape Manegement: From Data to Decison – Prague - Registration and Abstract Submission Now Open!
Colleagues,
Registration and abstract submission is open for the international conference "Landscape Management: From Data to Decison"!
The conference will be held on September 17-19, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.
More information is available at the conference website www.praguelandman2018.org
We are looking forward to meeting and to discussing with you landscape matters in Prague!
Robert Marusak
Coordinator of IUFRO Research Group 4.04.00 – Forest management planning
Von: Jean-Paul Laclau [mailto:jean-paul.laclau@cirad.fr]
Gesendet: Montag, 21. Mai 2018 10:47
Betreff: EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION to the IUFRO Conference 'Eucalyptus 2018' in Montpellier, France. DEADLINE: 31 May 2018
This is a friendly reminder that the early-bird registration deadline for the 'Eucalyptus 2018' conference is 31 May 2018.
Details at https://eucalyptus2018.cirad.fr/
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Call for Participation in the 4th International Congress on Planted Forests
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), in
partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration of China (SFGA),
is convening the 4th International Congress on Planted Forests at the China
National Convention Centre (CNCC), Beijing, China on October 23-25, 2018,
with optional post Congress excursions on October 26-27 with two routes, one
for the conservation planted forests in North China and one for the
industrial planted forests in South China. The Congress is organized by the
Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), the national research institution on
forestry in China.
The 4th International Congress on Planted Forests aims to investigate the
contribution of planted forests to green development in the context of
global changes. Topics include the sustainability of planted forests in the
context of changing climates and the future role of planted forests in
bio-resources sustainability, environmental protection and green
development. The Congress will also be a space of interface between
scientific communities, wider society and government policy initiatives
related to planted forests.
The 4th International Congress on Planted Forests will arrange 2 plenary
keynote presentations, 8 sub-plenary invited presentations, around 40
parallel technical sessions with around 240 oral presentations as well as
quite a number of poster presentations.
The 4th International Congress on Planted Forests is calling for submission
of session proposals and abstracts, as well as registration for
participation.
Important deadlines:
(1) Submission for session proposals: May 31, 2018 (with flexibility of
submission a week later if prior communication with the Congress Secretariat
is made).
(2) Submission for abstracts: July 15, 2018.
(3) Early-bird registration: July 31, 2018.
Immediately after the 4th International Congress on Planted Forests, there
will be also the 60's anniversary celebration of the Chinese Academy of
Forestry and associated international workshop in Beijing, China on October
26-27, 2018.
Please find as attached herewith the Congress Announcement.
For more information about the 4th International Congress on Planted
Forests, please refer to the Congress website www.icpf2018.net
<http://www.icpf2018.net/> or www.icpf2018.com <http://www.icpf2018.com/> ,
or directly contact icpf2018(a)vip.163.com or icpf_4th(a)126.com.
We thank you very much and look forward to your kind participation in the
4th International Congress on Planted Forests, either organizing sessions,
or making oral/and or poster presentations, as well as just participating
for academic discussions and exchange.
It will be highly appreciated if you could also help circulate the Congress
among your network family as widely as possible.
Von: Im Auftrag von José Borges
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018 16:40
Betreff: Call for papers - Special Issue on Decision Support to Address Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning
Dear Colleagues,
IUFRO Units 4.04.04—Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling, IUFRO Unit 4.03—Informatics, Modelling, and Statistics and IUFRO Unit 4.03.03. Information management and information technologies are sponsoring a Special Issue of Forests (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests) on Decision Support to Address Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning
We welcome the submission of manuscripts for publication in this Forests special issue (SI). This SI aims at contributing to our understanding of how we can enhance forest management planning, in integrating a wide range of ecosystem services (ES) and assuring a sustainable supply (e.g. products and services listed in the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment). We welcome manuscripts that focus on 1) models to help forest managers check the impact of management options on the provision of ES, 2) methods to help forest managers develop plans targeting the supply of ES, 3) methods to help forest managers analyze tradeoffs between a multitude of ES, 4) methods to help forest managers assess the sensitivity of the supply of ecosystem services to uncertain parameters, 5) multiple criteria decision support systems and 6) approaches to map the demand for ES and the quality and quantity of ES supply. 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: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Decision_Support_to_Ecos…
On behalf the other co-editors of this SI, Harald Vacik, Keith Reynolds, Luiz Carlos Rodriguez and Emin Baskent,
Jose
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José G. Borges
Professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
https://fenix.isa.ulisboa.pt/qubEdu/homepage/isa2342
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/
