Dear colleagues,
I would like to forward a message regarding our recent paper on a global review of forest biomass harvesting guidelines. On behalf of all authors, I wish you a stimulating read!
With best wishes,
Viktor Bruckman
Good day,
A recently published, open-access review paper led by Dr. Brian Titus, research scientist from the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, might be of interest to you:
Titus, B.D., Brown, K., Helmisaari, H-S., Vanguelova, E., Stupak, I., Evans, A., Clarke, N., Guidi, C., Bruckman, V. J., Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene, I., Kęstutis Armolaitis, K., de Vries, W., Hirai, K., Kaarakka, L., Hogg, K., and Reece, P. 2021. Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines. Energy, Sustainability and Society 11:10, published on April 14, 2021.
Available at https://energsustainsoc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13705-021-00281… and DOI: 10.1186/s13705-021-00281-w
This topical review of forest biomass harvesting guidelines was completed by 16 authors from 11 countries, covering 43 jurisdictions in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. Uniquely, the international team included information from guidelines from France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania and Japan that are not available in English - and hence may be of particular interest. (The review is an outcome of an OECD-sponsored workshop and thus relevant forest management manuals were reviewed in several cases where workshop participants were from jurisdictions that do not yet have specific forest biomass harvesting guidelines.) Below my signature is a list of authors and affiliations.
Of particular interest to some readers will be access to the raw data (i.e., consisting of direct quotations from original documents), included within a spreadsheet. This allows readers to explore the raw data and generate their own conclusions, or search for information relevant to their own interests, be this scientific research, policy-oriented questions, guideline development, forest management ideas, or any other topics of relevance to them. It is an aspiration of the authors that the spreadsheet of data be a publicly available "living" or "evergreen" document (courtesy of the Forest Stewards Guild) that can be updated or corrected as new guidelines are published - directions for contacting the Guild are in the spreadsheet. If you have general queries, please contact me and I will forward your message to Dr. Titus; if you notice errors or omissions in the raw data in the spreadsheet, or if you are aware of specific forest biomass guidelines that have inadvertently been overlooked, please contact Zander Evans or Inge Stupak - their contact information is in the main spreadsheet.
The review also contains a second spreadsheet with recommendations from past guideline reviews - to "give credit where credit is due", give readers direct access to exactly what past reviewers said, and to show how past recommendations were summarized by authors. As with raw guideline data, it is the hope of the authors that especially agencies developing their own guidelines will find this format helpful to their work.
A "blog" on this review for readers of the range of BMC (Biomed Central) journals may be of interest to you, or useful for sharing information about this paper with a general audience. "Helping ensure that forest bioenergy is environmentally sustainable" can be found at
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-physicalsciences/2021/04/15/forest-bioene…
Finally, please note that this review paper is part of a special issue of ESSO on Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes, edited by Inge Stupak, Tat Smith and Nicholas Clarke. This issue may contain related articles of interest to you regarding sustainability and governance mechanisms for forest bioenergy. The open-access issue is available at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/sbbb
I hope you enjoy this comprehensive and timely review, and find it adds value to your work. I look forward to receiving your feedback.
Kind regards,
Winnifred Hays-Byl
Director, Forest Innovation and Dynamics
Pacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada
Email: winnifred.hays-byl(a)canada.ca<mailto:winnifred.hays-byl@canada.ca>
Cell: 778-535-4182
Authors:
* Brian Titus, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada (now retired)
* Kevin Brown, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada (now at K.R. Brown and Associates)
* Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Elena Vanguelova, Forest Research, Surrey, UK
* Inge Stupak, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Alexander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild, New Mexico, USA
* Nicholas Clarke, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway
* Claudia Guidi, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
* Viktor J. Bruckman, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria
* Iveta Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
* Kęstutis Armolaitis, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
* Wim de Vries, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
* Keizo Hirai, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan
* Lilli Kaarakka, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
* Karen Hogg, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
* Pam Reece, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada (now at Stantec, Sidney, BC)
Dr. Viktor Bruckman
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria
Voice: +43-1-51581-3200
Mobile: +43 664 6127259
Email: viktor.bruckman(a)oeaw.ac.at<mailto:viktor.bruckman@oeaw.ac.at>
Web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/
Dear colleagues,
we are happy to inform you about the publication of our new paper in the
Journal "Environmental Politics"
"Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas"
by Thomas Vogelpohl, Katrin Beer, Benjamin Ewert, Daniela Perbandt, Annette Toeller, and Michael Boecher
ABSTRACT
The concept of the bioeconomy has risen to great popularity with governments around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy.
However, it is still highly contentious what the bioeconomy actually is or should be, which results in a certain vagueness of bioeconomy policy strategies.
European bioeconomy policy is a prime example of this. Despite two dedicated bioeconomy strategies, it appears to be highly fragmented and heterogeneous
when it comes to concrete political processes and measures. Against this backdrop, we aim to find patterns of European bioeconomy policy by applying the political
process-inherent dynamics approach (PIDA) to the three sub-areas of bioplastics, biofuels and bioenergy. Aggregating the respective results,
the overarching pattern of European bioeconomy policy is rather shaped by the interplay of specific problem structures, institutional frameworks and actor
constellations in its policy sub-areas than by the ambiguous umbrella concept of the bioeconomy.
Free copies are available ( the first 50) here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2021.1917827
The paper is a result of the project
"Political processes of bioeconomy between economy and ecology"
http://www.bio-oekopoli.de/bio-oekopoli/en/,
a cooperation between FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany and
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
It has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF).
Best regards
Michael Boecher
Prof. Dr. Michael Böcher
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Nachhaltige Entwicklung
http://www.pw.ovgu.de/Lehrst%C3%BChle/Lehrstuhl+Nachhaltige+Entwicklung.html
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Tel.: 0391-67-56585
Fax: 0391-67-46575
Besuchen Sie den Lehrstuhl auf Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/Lehrstuhl-Politikwissenschaft-Schwerpunkt-Nachhalt…>!
Dear IUFRO FRIENDS
Please consider attending the upcoming FABI International Seminar (29th April at 16h00 GMT +2) to be presented by Dr Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold. Sandy is very well known to the IUFRO Community having (for example) served Division 7 (Tree Health) Co-ordinator and Chair of the Scientific Committee for our 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg in 2017. If you are interested in tree health, biological invasions or forests and forestry in general - this will be a seminar for you to enjoy.
To attend, it is necessary to register -please do so at https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/FABISerminarSeries/
Background information on Sandy’s talk can be found below and details of the FABI International Seminar Series is on the web site above.
Best regards
Mike
[signature_678126525]
April, 2021
[cid:image002.jpg@01D735D0.F171B670]
Speaker: Dr Andrew Liebhold, US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV USA
Title: Macroecology of Insect Invasions
Date: 29 April 2021 Time: 16:00 (GMT+2)
Abstract: Biological invasions are largely an unintended consequence of globalization. With increasing mobility, humans have accidentally transported organisms around the world, breaking the geographical boundaries that separated species ranges that persisted for millions of years of evolution. Among animals, the insecta is the most species-rich class, with thousands of insect species having been established outside of their native ranges and many of these species causing immense impacts on agriculture, human health and conservation of native ecosystems. Here, I report on a macroecological analysis of historical insect invasions spanning 300 years and 10 world regions. These data are used to compare frequencies of invasions among different insect orders and among different insect families. Species-area relationships for native insect assemblages are generally stronger than for non-native insect assemblages. Certain groups, such as the Hemiptera, Formicidae and the Staphylinidae are generally over-represented in non-native insect assemblages, while other taxa are under-represented. These patterns generally reflect characteristics of these insects that cause them to enter important invasion pathways and biological characteristics that facilitate invasions. These results ultimately allow us to better understand the socio-economic drivers of insect invasions and can be of use when conducting invasive pest risk analysis.
Biography: Andrew “Sandy” Liebhold has been a research entomologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV USA since 1988. His research focuses on the ecology and management of biological invasions and the spatial dynamics of insect outbreaks. Liebhold received his PhD in Entomology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and worked as a postdoctoral at the University of Massachusetts before joining the Forest Service. He is a fellow of the AAAS and serves on the editorial board of the journals Population Ecology and Biological Invasions. He also currently serves as a scientific coordinator with the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and a visiting scholar with Scion Research in New Zealand.
This message and attachments are subject to a disclaimer.
Please refer to http://upnet.up.ac.za/services/it/documentation/docs/004167.pdf for full details.
Dear colleagues in IUFRO Division 9
We begin with our sincere hopes that you, your families and your friends and colleagues are all managing to stay healthy (physically and mentally) during the pandemic. The simple phrase “How are you?” has gained new importance for us all.
We are all struggling with Covid-19 in our own countries and workplaces and it is inevitable that planning IUFRO activities has not been a priority. In a pandemic, virtual events offer possibilities, but planning these and organising the web-based platforms still takes more time than many of us have.
To overcome this, we have arranged a partnership with the organisers of the 20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference to include sessions for members of Divisions 9 and 6. This virtual conference is being hosted by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from 16-19 August 2021. More information is available here https://cfc2021.ubc.ca/ .
We are inviting you to join this conference with a 10 minute pre-recorded presentation (uploaded in advance) and by participating in a live discussion during daylight hours in your own part of the world. Although the conference is English, we think that pre-recording presentations will help everyone who is not a fluent English-speaker. Registration costs are very low, ranging $ 12 to $ 80 US. Please see the invitation attached. You do not have to be a resident of a Commonwealth country to participate in CFC2021.
Please contact Stephen Wyatt, Janette Bulkan or the CFC2021 organisers for more information.
Monica Gabay Coordinator Division 9
Ian Rotherham Coordinator RG 9.03
Stephen Wyatt Deputy coordinator RG 9.03 stephen.wyatt(a)umoncton.ca<mailto:stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca>
Janette Bulkan Coordinator WP 9.03.07 janette.bulkan(a)ubc.ca<mailto:janette.bulkan@ubc.ca>
Stephen Wyatt
Professeur agrégé / Associate Professor
École de foresterie / School of forestry
Université de Moncton, campus d’Edmundston
Edmundston, NB, Canada
stephen.wyatt(a)umoncton.ca<mailto:stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca>
+1 506 737 5243
http://professeur.umoncton.ca/umce-wyatt_stephen/
<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=t8XQA08AAAAJ>Research Gate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Wyatt> , Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=t8XQA08AAAAJ>
Je reconnais que j’habite et que je travaille sur le territoire non cédé des Wolastoqiyik, gardiens traditionnels de ces forêts, terres et rivières.
I acknowledge that I live and work on the the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, traditional custodians of these forests, lands and waters.
L'information contenue dans ce courriel (y compris les pièces jointes) est confidentielle et vise uniquement son destinataire ou ses destinataires. Toute autre distribution, copie ou divulgation est interdite. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez nous en aviser et éliminer ce courriel, ainsi que les pièces jointes, de votre système informatique et de vos dossiers.
Von: Sheila Ward <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. März 2021 00:04
Betreff: Join the e-list for IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics
Dear Colleagues:
You are invited to join the e-list for IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics, at https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/ We are focusing the unit on the discovery, curation, and use of legacy tropical forest datasets.
Much legacy data for tropical forests, including inventory and plot data, are in danger of being lost. Many tropical forest projects over the years have generated data, but the information is scattered among different institutions and people, some still only on paper, some digitized but in older formats.
These legacy datasets are invaluable for understanding how tropical forests change through time, including the cumulative impacts of land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity. change in land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many of the forests represented in historical datasets no longer exist, so these data are the only record of the natural vegetation of the area.
There is also a need to develop a set of standard descriptive metadata, or a metadata scheme, for describing these datasets. This would assist not only with recovering and describing old data sets, but also ensure that future datasets can be consistently described and that their loss can be avoided in the future.
The first step is to review datasets referred to in older meta databases (e.g., ATROFI-UK and TROPIS) to determine if they are still available, and if they are in need of updated electronic curation. We are also reaching out via electronic media and networks, to find additional legacy tropical datasets and information on these studies. The next steps will be to develop an updated metadatabase regarding these datasets, develop with stakeholders policy on ownership and appropriate use, seek funding, and electronically curate such datasets.
We invite your participation in the e-list to discuss these and related topics.
IUFRO 4.02.01 Coordination Team
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/40201/
Colleagues,
The journal of Forest Policy and Economics (IF 3.099) is currently running a special issue entitled "Justice and Power in Bioeconomy and Biosociety: a Multidisciplinary Perspective".
As we are acting as guest editors for this issue, we kindly invite you to consider submitting your full paper to this special issue.
Submission period: 1 January 2021 – 30 June 2021
Guest authors: Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Helga Pülzl, Wolfram Dressler, Markus Kröger, Mary Mention, Juha Hiedanpää
Details: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/call-for-pape…
Looking forward to receiving your submissions!
Kind Regards
Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Helga Pülzl, Wolfram Dressler, Markus Kröger, Mary Mention, Juha Hiedanpää
Dear colleagues,
we are happy to inform you about the publication of our new paper in the
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning:
"Is bioeconomy policy a policy field? A conceptual framework and findings on the European Union and Germany"
by Annette Toeller, Thomas Vogelpohl, Katrin Beer and Michael Boecher
ABSTRACT
Bioeconomy policy is often labelled a policy field or at least an emerging policy field. But is it really one? And how can one tell and what does it mean?
Drawing on the scarce research on what exactly are policy fields and what are the factors driving their emergence, we aim to answer these questions based
on the definition of a policy field as a specific and long-term constellation of related problems, actors, institutions and instruments.
Empirically drawing on the European Union and Germany, in a first step we find that bioeconomy policy can be characterised as an emerging policy field at most,
as it is limitedly institutionalised and lacks a genuinely bioeconomy-related actor constellation and problem structure. Moreover, there are hardly any bioeconomy-specific
instruments in place. In a second step, we find that the fragmented institutional and regulatory landscape particularly hinders the establishment of bioeconomy policy
as a policy field, as do the ambiguity and inconsistency of its overarching goals as well as its fragile supportive actor constellations.
As a result, bioeconomy policy to date rather serves as a conceptual umbrella for a number of already existing policies, so far with little tangible effect.
KEYWORDS
Bioeconomy; policy analysis; policy fields; environmental policy; European Union; Germany
Free copies are available ( the first 50) here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KCQI5MN8NZYNNUGXHYA8/full?target=10.1080…
The paper is one result of the project
"Political processes of bioeconomy between economy and ecology"
http://www.bio-oekopoli.de/bio-oekopoli/en/,
a cooperation between FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany and
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
It has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF).
Best regards
Michael Boecher
Prof. Dr. Michael Böcher
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Institute for Social Science
Chair of Political Science and Sustainable Development
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
GERMANY
http://www.pw.ovgu.de/Lehrst%C3%BChle/Lehrstuhl+Nachhaltige+Entwicklung.html
Visit us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/Lehrstuhl-Politikwissenschaft-Schwerpunkt-Nachhalt…>!
