From: International Society of Tropical Foresters <istf(a)yale.edu <mailto:istf@yale.edu> >
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:35:20 +0000
Subject: Invitation to attend the 2021 virtual ISTF conference
We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the 27thannual International Society of Tropical Foresters conference. The deadline for submissions to has been extended until FRIDAY, January 22. Submit your abstracts for breakout sessions, posters, flash talks, and applications for the ISTF Innovation Prize. This year’s theme will be “Timelines and Critical Junctures: Re-examining Crises as Opportunities for Change”.
The Yale ISTF Chapter is dedicated to the advancement of tropical forest studies at the Yale School of the Environment, formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The ISTF conference has been hosted at Yale for 26 years and addresses a range of socio-ecological issues across the tropics. The 2021 conference will bring together an international community of academics, practitioners, activists, policy makers, artists, journalists and community leaders to re-examine crises as moments of learning and opportunities to set forth on new trajectories. Seizing these moments requires us to reflect on the interconnected nature of society, economy and the environment while motivating efforts to mitigate future events in light of our past successes and failures.
While the conference will unfortunately not be held in-person as per tradition, we hope that the online format will allow wider access and participation from attendees around the world, especially for participants and speakers that have historically faced difficulties with travel to the United States. Its virtual format will also allow us to offer subtitles in Spanish via Zoom's software.
Register and submit you abstracts at our 2021 conference website:
<http://istfconference.events.yale.edu/> http://istfconference.events.yale.edu/
Follow Yale ISTF on Facebook @yalefesistf, Twitter @YaleISTF, and Instagram @YaleISTF for updates as more conference details unfold!
See you there!
Yale ISTF 2021 Team
Dear IUFRO Public Relations Working Party Members -
On our 2020 work planning call in November there were two ideas put forward for broad action across our party: the first to pursue a special issue of a journal dedicated for forest science communication and the second is to update the manual on forest science communication.
The special issue journal would require submission of full journal-quality papers by multiple working party members related to the topic of communicating forest science. This is a solicitation looking for expressions of interest by 08 January 2021. We would determine by January 15 if there is enough interest to pursue the journal issue. If there is, we would request that abstracts be submitted by March; and if accepted, a full paper by the end of May 2020.
The second item is to update the Communicating Forest Science manual, developed by the Working Party in 2014. This update would focus on new communication tools and technology that have come onto the scene and gained popularity and effectiveness since 2014. We would request ideas for country-specific case studies that help showcase the tactical and tangible methods that can be used to communicate forest science using new tools and technology. For this effort, we are looking for volunteers to craft case studies and draft sections on new tools and technologies for the manual update. If you are interested in supporting this effort, please respond by 08 January 2021. This work will take place over the course of 2021.
For questions on these two efforts, please use our Slack Channel<Join%20me%20on%20Slack%20-%20it's%20a%20faster,%20simpler%20way%20to%20work.%20Sign%20up%20here,%20from%20a…>.
Thank you.
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Enabling Factors to Scale Up Forest Landscape Restoration
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UFRO_FLR_Policy_Study-cover_39715b07a1.jpg> Beschreibung:
https://www.iufro.org/typo3temp/assets/_processed_/8/d/csm_2020_11_20_WWF_IU
FRO_FLR_Policy_Study-cover_39715b07a1.jpgThe time is now to make forest
restoration (FLR) at scale a success. This study seeks to better understand
enabling governance and economic factors that can inform FLR implementation,
based on sound evidence gathered from diverse contexts.
Enabling Factors to Scale Up Forest Landscape Restoration: The Roles of
Governance and Economics. Full Report with Case Studies
Published by WWF-Germany, November 2020
Author: Stephanie Mansourian, environmental consultant and Deputy
Coordinator of the IUFRO Task Force on Transforming Forest Landscapes for
Future Climates and Human Well-Being
WWF and IUFRO have come together to push the forest restoration agenda
forward using our combined scientific, policy and field implementation
expertise. Both of our organizations have been exploring lessons learned in
FLR (IUFRO FLR Snapshot and WWF FLR Field Experiences) to understand what
works and what doesn't as a basis for informing future implementation.
The purpose of this report is to identify the enabling factors at the
national or subnational scale (including specifically governance and
economic factors) that have motivated the initiation of forest restoration,
that have enabled its implementation at scale, and that are key to
sustaining it.
It reviews case studies of 10 locations that have scaled up forest
restoration (Bhutan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kenya,
Madagascar, Viet Nam, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel, and
Brazil's Espírito Santo State) in order to identify possible enabling
factors related to governance and economics and thereby to guide future FLR
interventions.
Download report from:
https://www.iufro.org/news/article/2020/11/23/enabling-factors-to-scale-up-f
orest-landscape-restoration/
Dear colleagues,
We hope this email finds you all in good health! Due to the pandemic we have decided to move the 3rd International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM3) online. We will do our best to replicate the familiarity and good discussion climate that we are used to from previous IFPMs also in the online format. We hope you will join us in March and please take note of the updated submission deadlines and guidelines below and on the website: http://www.forstpolitik-umweltpolitik.uni-freiburg.de/lehre/IFPM%203
The conference will take place on the 17-18th of March, 2021. A few changes will be made due to the online format and most importantly, we will no longer accept poster presentations. Those of you that have submitted poster presentations will be contacted in the coming days. In order to accommodate participation from time zones other than CET, we will have sessions spread out over the day. Once your submission(s) have been accepted you will be contacted regarding your preferred time slots.
In the online format we will accommodate panels, individual oral presentations, and 3-minute-thesis (3MT) presentations. Please DO NOT submit individual abstracts if your presentation is already included in a panel submission. Panel submissions include the abstracts of all included presentations so there is no need to submit these individually.
The deadline for all submissions has been extended to the 11th of December and you will receive a notification of acceptance before the end of December.
The deadline for registration is 15th of January and includes the payment of a 50 EUR conference fee. The fee enables us to provide a high-quality online conference experience and guarantee good opportunities for participation.
Updated submission guidelines and additional information you also find on the conference website here: http://www.forstpolitik-umweltpolitik.uni-freiburg.de/lehre/IFPM%203
We are looking forward to your submissions and active participation online in March!
Best regards,
The organizing committee at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg (Germany)
