Dear colleagues,
for some of us and society at large, forests are something we take for granted.
The COVID-19 pandemic teaches us differently: The attached commentary study shows exploding forest visitor numbers during the lockdown, thus revealing forests as part of the critical infrastructure during a pandemic. Based on the lessons from Germany, it starts discussing some implications for forest management and policy, with the potential to inform decisions in other places as well. So please feel free to distribute.
Best regards
Lukas Giessen
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PD Lukas Giessen, PhD
- Principal Scientist "Forest Governance"
European Forest Institute (EFI), Bonn Office
- Adjunct Professor, IPB Indonesia
- Editor in Chief, Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier): http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=voULQt4AAAAJ&view_op=list_wo…
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukas_Giessen
Dear colleagues,
You are invited to a virtual HLPF Side Event
Forests and transformative pathways to sustainability
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 8:00-9:00 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) / UTC/GMT -4
hours
Join us via this link:
<https://events.icareus.com/fi/web/bright/player/event/custom?eventId=601463
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https://events.icareus.com/fi/web/bright/player/event/custom?eventId=6014636
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Forests can be directly or indirectly linked to almost all SDGs and are
central for nature based-solutions and transformative pathways towards
sustainability. Building on the work undertaken by the International Union
of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Special Project World Forests,
Society and Environment (WFSE) and especially the recent publication
Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People, this
side event will discuss the role of forests and forestry in transformative
change and ways to accelerate the progress towards sustainability.
It will specifically discuss the role of forest in transformational change
and the levers of change across complex systems and illustrate ways to
accelerate transformative change for the forests-food-energy-climate nexus
and their potential and limitations, with emphasis on equity, gender and
governance. It will also illustrate the large potential for synergies among
the SDG targets that focus on sustainable land and resource use and the
importance of policy and regulatory environment and capacities that support
and incentivize sustainable forest-related livelihoods and development.
Programme
v Opening of the event and welcome Dr. Glenn Galloway, University of
Florida
v Opening remarks Jukka Salovaara, Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations
v Forests and forestry in transformational change Prof. Wil de Jong, Kyoto
University
v From forest-specific sustainability to wider transformative change:
Levers of change across complex systems Dr. Pablo Pacheco, World Wildlife
Fund
v Advancing commitments to leave no one behind: Focus on equity, gender,
governance Dr. Bimbika Sijabati Basnett, Center for International
Forestry Research Associate
v Forests and SDGs: Building on synergies for transformative change Dr. Pia
Katila, Natural Resources Institute Finland
v Discussion
The event is organized by IUFRO, WWF, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of
Finland, and Natural Resources Institute Finland.
Link to the publication:
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sustainable-development-goals-their-im
pacts-on-forests-and-people/5FA75743F80CCE33751BD2095E5754DC> Sustainable
Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People and related
<https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/science/spps/wfse/wfse-pol-brief-b
uilding-synergies-mitigating-tradeoffs.pdf> policy brief
Contact: Dr. Pia Katila IUFRO-WFSE Coordinator, Natural Resources Institute
Finland, pia.katila(a)luke.fi
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Dear readers of Forest Policy and Economics,
it is our pleasure informing you of the latest (positive) developments of our journal Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier).
* We are currently hosting an Editorial Team of 10 highly motivated and skilled Associate as well as Senior Editors. Our Editorial Advisory Board received some new members (details see https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/editorial-boa… ).
* The 2019 Impact Factor was just announced being 3.139
* FP&E has been included in two new categories, hence ranking:
* 6 of 68 in the category Forestry
* 39 of 123 in Environmental Studies
* 56 of 371 in Economics.
* The similar 2019 CiteScore is 5.7 (for detailed metrics see https://journalinsights.elsevier.com/journals/1389-9341 ).
* In 2020 we received some 360 submissions to date.
* Under our new, peer-reviewed & citable article category of Commentaries we are welcoming short (up to ca. 3000 words) pieces as either Research Trends, Science Critiques, or more practical Policy Forum articles (for details see our full aims&scope https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics ).
* Continuously, we are looking forward to your as well as your colleagues' high-quality submissions and proposals for special issues.
Please feel free to forward this information within your groups, institutions and wider networks,
With best regards,
Lukas Giessen, on behalf of the Editorial Team
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PD Lukas Giessen, PhD
- Principal Scientist "Forest Governance"
European Forest Institute (EFI), Bonn Office
- Adjunct Professor, IPB Indonesia
- Editor in Chief, Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier): http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=voULQt4AAAAJ&view_op=list_wo…
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukas_Giessen
Dear colleagues,
we are happy to inform you about the publication of our new "research trends" paper on
bioeconomy politics and governance. It briefly discusses recent relevant literature delivering to a political
science perspective on bioeconomy and identifies 4 main research strands.
Michael Böcher, Annette Elisabeth Töller, Daniela Perbandt, Katrin Beer, Thomas Vogelpohl,
Research trends: Bioeconomy politics and governance, Forest Policy and Economics,
Volume 118, 2020, 102219.
We think that the paper could be useful to serve as starting point for further research from
a specific public policy / political science perspective on bioeconomy.
The paper is one result of the three year 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).
You can download the full paper by clicking on this link before August 01, 2020.
No sign up, registration or fees are required.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bDdH4y2D1W7GD
Best regards
Michael
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…>!
??Dear colleagues,
IUFRO unit 4.05 - Managerial economics and accounting with all five subunits (4.05.01, 4.05.02., 4.05.03, 4.05.04 and 4.05.05), the Institute for Regional Development of Eurac Research and the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Padua, in cooperation with IUFRO Task Force: "Unlocking the bio-economy and non-timber forest products organize the forest science conference "The social and ecological value added of small-scale forestry to the Bio-Economy".
The conference will take place from 6th to 9th October 2020 at Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy.
The website for the event is online now. Please, find the link here: https://www.iufro2020.eurac.edu/ which is reachable also from IUFRO page https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40500/activities/
We would like to invite you not only to have a look at the web page, but also to submit your abstract within 12th July 2020. Registration for the symposium will open on 24th July 2020.
The web-page https://www.iufro2020.eurac.edu/ will be regularly updated.
We hope that you find this conference topic of great interest, and we encourage you to inform other potential participants in your networks. Thus, we would be pleased if you could advise all colleagues and contacts, who might be interested.
We are looking forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Bolzano.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions.
With kind regards,
Christian Hoffmann, conference coordinator, Eurac Research; christian.hoffmann(a)eurac.edu<mailto:christian.hoffmann@eurac.edu>
Davide Pettenella, conference coordinator, University of Padova; davide.pettenella(a)unipd.it<mailto:davide.pettenella@unipd.it>;
Lidija Zadnik Stirn, IUFRO 4.05 coordinator, lidija.zadnik(a)bf.uni-lj.si<mailto:lidija.zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si>;
James Chamberlain, IUFRO TF4 coordinator, james.l.chamberlain(a)usda.gov<mailto:james.l.chamberlain@usda.gov>;
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