TERRAenVISION Environmental Issues Today: Scientific Solutions for Societal Issues
Our Planet suffers from human activities. As scientists, we know more and more about our environment, about processes, rates of change, new threats and risks. However, the challenges seem to grow quicker than the solutions we can create.
This conference aims to focus on the scientific research towards finding solutions for the societal issues of our time. TERRAenVISION promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and networking. To bring scientists and stakeholders that have the same goal, work on the same societal issue, but have different scientific backgrounds. By bringing the people and their knowledge together, we may be able to take the steps towards solutions that can bring our society to a more sustainable situation. In this conference, we want to link to International policies such as the sustainable Development Goals, the UN Climate conventions, CAP and COP.
Environmental issues we would like to highlight and discuss:
This conference is framed around themes. Each theme is kicked off by two plenary keynote speeches of 20 min, followed by a discussion. After the plenary session, a range of different parallel sessions will be organised.
We also want to stress that the conference is not only for scientists, but also warmly would like to invite people from outside the scientific world.
The themes:
1. Climate change: Mitigation and Adaptation
2. Water Resources: Quality and Quantity
3. Land Degradation and Restoration
4. Nature based solutions
5. Fire in the earth system, effects and prevention
6. Ecosystem services and Health
7. Science interface: with policy and public
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION
https://terraenvision2018.eu/abstract-submission/https://terraenvision2018.eu/registration/
DEADLINE FOR ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS: 15th OF DECEMBER
DEADLINE FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS: 22nd OF JANUARY
(CHECK ALSO OUR Pre-conference Excursion January 25th-28th 2018)
Please visit the website for more information: www.terraenvision2018.eu
Saskia Keesstra
TERRAenVISION Conference
<mailto:envision.one18@gmail.com> envision.one18(a)gmail.com
www.terraenvision2018.eu
29 January-2 February 2018
Barcelona, Spain
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Dschang in Cameroon are pleased to announce the first IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) social sciences conference on“African forest-related policies and politics”, AFORPOLIS 1.
This international and interdisciplinary scientific conference aims to advance cutting-edge knowledge on the emergence and evolution of African forest governance. The conference will take place in Yaoundé, Cameroon from 24 to 27 September 2018.
Please submit your abstracts (maximum 300 words) to iufroyaounde2018(a)gwdg.de<mailto:iufroyaounde2018@gwdg.de> before January 26, 2018. The scientific committee will transmit their decision by March 5, 2018. Authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to submit their full manuscripts to the conference organisers by July 12, 2018. A selection of best manuscripts, if approved by a rigorous peer-review, will be published in a special issue of the journal, Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier).
Please find attached the concept note of the AFORPOLIS 1 conference. For further information on this event, you are kindly invited to visit the following IUFRO web page: https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90500/activities/
Best regards,
Symphorien Ongolo
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Symphorien Ongolo, PhD
Alexander von Humboldt research fellow
Chair of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy
Research Group Leader "Global Forestland Policy & Sustainability"
University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 3 – Office 2.106
37077 Göttingen – Germany
E-mail: songolo(a)uni-goettingen.de
Tel (Office): +49-551-39 33410
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/576451.html
Von: Griess, Verena
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. November 2017 18:46
Betreff: [IUFRO Div 4] PhD position Forest Economics for Decision Support
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for a smart young scholar to join my research group as a PhD
student working on questions from the field of forest economics.
We offer the successful candidate a 4-year scholarship to pursue excellent
research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in close collaboration
with Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service (NRCan-CFS). The
project offers the unique opportunity to work on a large-scale research
project with other project partners, such as Université Laval and the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Details are attached.
Deadline for applications is January 2nd 2018.
Kindly forward the invitation for applications to suitable candidates, as
well as colleagues who might not be on this mailing list.
Thank you and best wishes
Dr Verena C Griess
Asst Prof Forest Management | Dept of Forest Resources Management
Faculty of Forestry | University of British Columbia
2424 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | CANADA V6T 1Z4
P 604 827-0634 | F 604 822-9106
Visit my Faculty Profile
<http://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/verena-griess-2/>
Visit the profile of IUFRO Working Group 4.04.02
<http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40400/40402/> :
Planning and economics of fast-growing plantation forests
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From: Dr. Ernest Foli <mailto:[mailto:efoli@hotmail.com]>
[mailto:efoli@hotmail.com]
Subject: Input to the 2019 GSDR
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to request your input to the 2019 Global Sustainable
Development Report (GSDR). The GSDR, mandated by the United Nations' Member
States in the outcome document of the 2012 Rio + 20 conference, is meant to
strengthen the science-policy interface and provide a strong evidence-based
instrument to support policymakers in promoting poverty eradication and
sustainable development.
The GSDR is being drafted by an independent group of scientists (IGS),
supported by a task team of six UN-system agencies. Profiles of the 15 IGS
members are found here:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport/2019)
As part of its outreach efforts, the IGS is soliciting inputs from a diverse
group of scientific and non-scientific communities, from all over the world,
in the form of publications supported by short abstracts or descriptions of
case studies. Currently, we are requesting contributions in four major
areas:
(1) interactions among SDGs and their targets,
(2) transformation pathways towards sustainable development;
(3) looking beyond the SDGs (major issues identified by research which are
not explicitly taken into account in the SDGs), and
(4) the role of science for sustainable development. Contributions will be
acknowledged in the GSDR.
If you are interested in contributing to this important exercise, please
follow the below link to a questionnaire.
https://goo.gl/forms/bWjUsJmHPZCDkqxb2
With many thanks and kind regards,
Ernest Foli, PhD.
Member of the Independent Group of Scientists
