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Betreff: New publication: ETFRN News 58 Zero deforestation: a commitment to change
Just Published! ETFRN News 58 Zero deforestation: a commitment to change
Several hundred companies, governments, and civil society and non-governmental organizations have committed to zero deforestation initiatives. However, all may not have fully realized the enormousness and complexity of the challenge in committing to zero deforestation, and it appears that some did not know exactly what they stepped into. What is clear though, is that this endeavour is very much at the initial stage of development, and early work and experimentation is showing the way to putting in place what is needed.
This silver anniversary edition of ETFRN News brings together 40 contributions from 100 experts and practitioners. They share their experiences, and suggest ways to improve the effectiveness of zero deforestation commitments through public-private collaboration and other models.
ETFRN News 58 presents different views across a range of commodity value chains, including how companies and smallholders are working together to build deforestation free supply chains. It reviews publicly announced commitments and on-the-ground impacts, and how implementation challenges are overcome. It looks at how socio-economic and environmental impacts and trade-offs are addressed, links between private commitments and government policy and regulations, and how transnational and civil-society initiatives help or hinder them.
>From the different contributions in this book, common threads are drawn, woven into the following eight key issues, that if implemented, can enhance the implementation, effectiveness and impact of pledges, and increase the likelihood of existing and future zero deforestation commitments being met.
1. Agree on clear definitions and standards – what is a forest, and deforestation, and, what are acceptable credible and coherent standards for use across different commodities?
2. National and local governments to become more involved – as failure to address broader governance challenges may reduce the positive impact of private sector zero-deforestation initiatives.
3. More corporate transparency and accountability – must become the norm for monitoring and reporting progress, and not just regarding zero deforestation commitments.
4. Support for smallholder empowerment – through capacity building and technical assistance, so millions of small producers can become effective players.
5. Civil society to continue to advocate for change – as consumers and global citizens, for corporations to take effective action.
6. Advocate for jurisdictional action in support of national goals – required to complement corporate supply chain initiatives, and helps to fulfil more inclusive, sustainable development criteria.
7. Include alternative business and financing models – that better take into account existing realities, and local systems of governance and tenure.
8. Invite broad stakeholder involvement – in the inclusive platforms that are clearly needed for progress, as no single solution can achieve the desired impact.
<http://www.etfrn.org/publications/zero+deforestation:+a+commitment+to+change> Downloaded here the ETFRN news
<http://www.etfrn.org/index.php?id=49> Downloaded here individual articles
This edition of ETFRN News is produced on behalf of ETFRN by Tropenbos International, in partnership with the European Forestry Institute’s EU FLEGT and REDD facilities, GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, CIFOR – the Center for International Forestry Research, Tropical Forest Alliance - TFA2020, and the Government of the Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Affairs.
This publication was produced with the financial assistance of the European Forest Institute’s EU FLEGT and REDD facilities, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands.
Contact:
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Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 13-th "DURABLE AGRICULTURE – AGRICULTURE OF THE FUTURE" Annual Meeting to be held in Craiova, Romania, at the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Craiova. Particular focus of the conference: "ADVANCED METHODS FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, SILVICULTURE AND FOOD SCIENCE."See you in CRAIOVA in NOVEMBER 2017 ! Prof.assoc. M. NICULESCU, PhD.Vice-DeanFaculty of AgronomyUniversity of CraiovaDepartament of Botany19 Libertatii street, 200583Craiova Romania00 40 251 41847500 40 730 447200
Dear colleague,
The deadline for Early Bird registration is approaching! This offer ends 1st June. Don't forget to register in time at
http://iufro2017.com/registration/
Kind regards,
The IUFRO Congress Organizing Team
FVA Baden-Württemberg | Wonnhaldestr. 4 | D-79100 Freiburg
iufro2017(a)forst.bwl.de
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From: Sheila Ward < <mailto:mahoganyforthefuture@gmail.com> mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2017-05-21 16:45 GMT+02:00
Reactivation of the International Society of Tropical Foresters
Dear International Foresters:
We are reactivating the International Society of Tropical Foresters which has been dormant for the last five years. The first step is to rebuild the list of people interested in ISTF. If you would like to connect with us, please send the following information to Teija Reyes reyesteija(a)gmail.com or Sheila Ward mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com:
First and last name
Title
Email address
Web page (if any)
Country of origin
Country of residence
Organization or institution
Languages
Short description of areas of expertise (25 words or less)
Countries of professional experience
At present, we have three sources of information for International Tropical Foresters.
1) Blair Orr at Michigan Technical University has kindly continued the ISTF newsletter as a newsletter for the Society of American Foresters International Forestry Working Group, and is still sending it to the old ISTF mailing list. This newsletter can be downloaded at: http://www.orrforest.net/saf/
If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, please send your email address to Teija Reyes reyesteija(a)gmail.com or Sheila Ward mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com and they will send it on to Blair.
2) The old ISTF web page can be still be found at http://www.istf-bethesda.org/
3) You can join the ISTF facebook group page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2262122534/
We hope to have your participation in the new ISTF! Please forward this to others.
Teija Reyes and Sheila Ward
From: Shashi Kant <mailto:[mailto:shashi.kant@utoronto.ca]>
[mailto:shashi.kant@utoronto.ca]
Sent: Freitag, 12. Mai 2017 17:44
Subject: Third International Conference on New Frontiers of Forest
Economics, June 24-28, 2018
Dear All,
We are pleased to announce call for abstracts for our third International
Conference on New Frontiers of Forest Economics (neFFE): Governing our
Forests: The Evolving Political Economy of Multiple Values and Multiple
Stakeholders, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 24-28,
2018.
The key objectives of the conference are:
1.to bring together leading thinkers in forest economics from academia,
government, and organizations related to the forest sector to explore
thought-provoking perspectives on forest economics beyond the boundaries of
perfectly competitive commodity markets; and
2.to provide a unique forum to present and discuss cutting-edge thinking
papers that will enrich and provide future directions to the discipline of
forest economics.
The conference is being organized by the IUFRO Group 9.04.00 (Forest
Resource Economics) in collaboration with Faculty of Forestry, University of
British Columbia; Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, and CYCAD Inc.
Please submit your abstract by September 20, 2017.
Details are available at: http://www.neffe.ch/
With warm regards
Shashi
Prof. Shashi Kant
Faculty of Forestry
University of Toronto
Canada
From: Georg Winkel
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 3:00 PM
Subject: PhD course on international forest policy in Umea - please
distribute widely - sorry for cross-posting
Dear all,
We are inviting for applications for a one week PhD student course on
international forest policy in September/October (the lecture period is
September 11 15 in Umea).
Please find attached a short description of the course. The main aim is to
provide an understanding of international forest policy on global as well as
European level from a broad social science perspective. The course is
relevant for PhD students from different disciplines, welcoming students not
only from forest and core social sciences.
The course is organized by the Department of Forest Economics, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, and the North European Regional Office
of the European Forest Institute, EFINORD, in collaboration with the Centre
for Environmental and Resource Economics, CERE, the Scandinavian Society of
Forest Economics, SSFE, and the University of Copenhagen.
Deadline for application is July 10th.
Further information can be found at
https://www.nmbu.no/en/students/nova/students/phd-courses/phd-2017/node/2978
0
or
http://www.slu.se/en/departments/forest-economics/education/phd-education/ph
d-courses/state-of-the-art-international-forest-policy/
It would be great if you could forward the course flyer into your networks,
and could approach potentially interested students.
Many thanks and best wishes
Maria, Göran and Georg
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Dr Georg Winkel
Head of Mission & Resilience Programme
European Forest Institute Bonn Office
Interim address: European Forest Institute (EFI)
c/o AUSTRIAN POST International Deutschland GmbH
Heinemannstr. 11 - 13
53175 Bonn, Germany
Phone +49(0)173/6293080
www.efi.int
Dear colleagues,
our editorial team has developed the below, revised aims & scope for our journal (see also https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics ).
As an innovation they now include and invite different kinds of short commentary articles.
With these short, peer-reviewed, and fully citable commentary articles we aim to substantially intensify academic debate. They enable science-based, concise and quick responses by authors to recent developments in the field and guarantee a timely reply by the editors.
We want to encourage you to submit such commentary manuscripts from now onwards. In addition, please feel free to spread the word in your networks.
We are looking forward to intensified academic debates through your commentaries as well as your - research articles, - literature reviews, or - special issue contributions to Forest Policy and Economics.
With best regards,
Lukas Giessen
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Lukas Giessen
Editor in Chief, Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/
Revised Aims & Scope:
Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
The journal publishes the following, peer-reviewed, citable article types:
* Research articles are full-length original scientific publications based on clearly defined methods and adequate data
* Review articles provide a systematic, analytical overview of a specific field of scientific literature based on the analysis of existing international publications
* Special Issues consist of a collection of articles resulting from previous scientific exchange among a group of writers. Contributions to Special Issues are invited by the Guest Editor(s). Potential Guest Editors are invited to submit brief proposals for Special Issues, including envisaged contributions, to any of our Editors at any time.
* Commentaries are science-based, peer-reviewed, short communications (approx. 1000-3000 words) formulated as one of the following types:
* Science Critiques: Critically discuss previous research published in our journal or in other high-impact outlets with direct relevance to our aims and scope. Critiques ideally address other authors' theories, hypotheses, methodologies, or conclusions, or a mix thereof, in a critical and straightforward yet constructive manner. Authors embed their line of reasoning into current scientific literature; critiques are not based on opinion. Through Science Critiques, authors quickly advance scholarly debate.
* Research Trends: These articles identify emerging empirical phenomena and issues of importance that should be addressed by future research. Ideally, such contributions propose research agendas, raise analytical research questions, and propose methods for the future study of the phenomenon. The commentaries should be embedded in existing scientific knowledge and related literature.
* Policy Forum: These are short commentary pieces on contemporary, internationally relevant forest or forest-related policy issues that enable researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to make timely contributions to policy debates. Contributions are based on research, expert analysis, literature review, or practitioner reflections regarding concrete policy issues. Pure opinion pieces will not be considered. Forum articles should be written in an accessible style and supported by real world examples and/or referenced scientific evidence.
Lukas Giessen
Senior Researcher and Head of Working Group International Forest Policy
Chair Group of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, University of Goettingen
Buesgenweg 3
37077 Goettingen / Germany
Tel. +49 551 39 33726
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/135009.html
Editor in Chief, Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/
Google Scholar link:
https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=voULQt4AAAAJ&view_op=list_wo…
From: Danielle M. Watson
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:18 PM
Subject: Gregory Award materials
Greetings!
The Society of American Foresters is excited to begin accepting applications for the 2017 Gregory Award. The Gregory Award seeks to mark the achievements of Bob and Ann Gregory and further their interest in international relations by providing economic assistance to outstanding students or professionals from outside of the US and Canada to attend the SAF Convention and have meaningful engagement with foresters on the North American continent.
Thanks to the continued generosity of the Gregory family and SAF members, this award has been expanded to bring two promising individuals to the SAF Convention each year. This year’s convention will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 15-19. The award includes complimentary registration and $2,000 (US dollars) that may be utilized for travel, lodging, and tickets to SAF convention events or technical field tours. SAF will work with successful applicants to allocate the funds in the most useful manner.
Please help us spread the word about this exciting opportunity. The deadline to apply is May 8, 2017.
The application is attached. For more information, visit http://www.eforester.org/Main/Community/Scholarships/Gregory_Award.aspx <http://www.eforester.org/Main/Community/Scholarships/Gregory_Award.aspx>.
<http://www.eforester.org/>Danielle Watson
Assistant Director, Government Affairs & External Relations
Society of American Foresters
10100 Laureate Way
Bethesda, MD 20814
W. (301) 897-8720
M. (301) 526-8354
www.eforester.org <http://www.eforester.org/>
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