Dear colleagues,
there are many good reasons to visit Freiburg, and a special one the IUFRO
125th Anniversary Congress in September of next year. The call for
abstracts is now open for this congress at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts, where will also find the list of
accepted sessions. The deadline for abstract submissions is 30 November
2016.
“Gender and working conditions in tropical forests” (session 147) is the
session, which we prepared. Please look at the session outline:
Forest work is hard work everywhere, but especially under tropical
conditions. This work is done by numerous men and women to earn a
livelihood based on the use of forest resources, timber as well as NTFP.
Millions of these men and women work in formal employment, but many more
in informal occupation, mostly in developing countries.
Their working situations, as in other sectors or even more so, are
gendered, i.e. different for men and women. This refers to tasks, chances
of personal and vocational development, income as well as to the other
physical, social and organisational working conditions, which are changing
and becoming harder through deforestation, climate change and extreme
weather situations, urbanisation and globalisation. Gender and working
conditions in tropical forests are monitored and studied by
representatives of different disciplines, among them social scientists,
gender specialists, ergonomists and certification auditors. The aim of the
proposed session is to share current knowledge from their work, which is a
fundamental research field of the IUFRO gender group and subgroups as well
as IUFRO Division 3.
I ask you to submit your abstract for the session before the deadline –
please do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have. It would be
helpful if you would send the abstract at the same time to me.
Let me also draw your attention to four more sessions with topics
connected to the topic of our session: there are two more gender related
sessions and two sessions on ergonomic issues in the programme.
Looking forward to a great session in Freiburg next year,
Siegfried Lewark
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Prof. Dr. Siegfried Lewark
Universität Freiburg
Professur für Forstliche Arbeitswissenschaft /
Chair of Forest Work Science
Werthmannstr. 6
D-79085 Freiburg
Distinguished Professor
NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY
College of Furniture and Industrial Design
Longpan Road 159, Nanjing, Jiangsu
China
Dear colleagues,
I have the pleasure to inform you that the session on No. 148
“Innovative value added chains in forestry” in the Congress segment: All
Division 4 (Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management) Meeting for
upcoming IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg
Germany, 19-22 September, 2017 is open for abstract submission at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts. The deadline for abstract
submission is 30 November, 2016. If you want to discuss your ideas,
please contact one of the organizers (see below).
Session outline
The value added - from harvesting, processing and using the potentials
of (domestic) forest resources - to supply refined timber or non-timber
products or to provide touristic or green care services, continues to
increase the value of forested areas - a major part of Bio -Economy. The
paradigm of the cascade usage between material and energetic usage and
dividing high value from low value assortments - a particularity of
forestry - is in line with the European strategy of Circular Economy for
increasing resource-efficiency. Accordingly, this session aims to
present outstanding case studies of innovative supply chains that foster
rural-urban linkages and strengthen interdisciplinary interfaces. It
will also discuss methodological approaches such as calculation schemes
or the applicability of optimization and behavioral models to compute
the value added for certain administrative units. Such multi-method
approaches introduce interesting views for deriving a regional value
added, by capturing the most relevant input-factors and outputs along
the value added chain: from the supply of raw materials and the use of
products - to the profit made and taxes paid. That process can consider
horizontal and vertical interlinkages covering intermediate suppliers of
individual actors across the production chain. Multiplier effects like
that are extending the “chain concept” to a “network concept”. Therein
effects of CO2 sequestration or additional value added from introducing
carbon taxes could be included as well. Moreover, we welcome
contributions providing insights regarding the competitiveness of
regional and international value added chains or the latent conflict
between microeconomic interests and macro-economic benefits as valuable
inputs for the discussion. This Session situates, elaborates, and
further explains the theory of value chain, with focus on
interdisciplinary approach. It emphasizes crosscutting and motivations
for supplementing the “buyer-driven” and “producer-driven” modes of
global commodity chains in forestry. It considers horizontal and
vertical interlinkages covering intermediate suppliers of individual
actors across the production chains, as one of the elements of
bioeconomy.
The session is organised under IUFRO All Division Meeting 4 Forest
Assessment, Modelling and Management, but it is not restricted to AMM
and will feature interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative
research, combining ideas and framings from forestry as whole. The
session is organised by researchers from different disciplines, who will
also seek to include additional papers to widen the disciplinary and
geographical coverage.
Best regards, your contribution and looking forward to see you in
Freiburg!
Ljiljana Keca
Prof. Dr Ljiljana Keca
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry
Department of Forestry
Chair of Forest Economics, Policy and Organisation
Forest Economics, Trade and Marketing, Forest Policy
1, Kneza Viseslava street, Serbia 11030 Belgrade
Phone: + 381 (0) 11 30 53 959
Mobile: + 381 (0) 64 17 94 648
E-mail: ljiljana.keca(a)sfb.bg.ac.rs (Bussiness)
Skype: ljiljana.keca
Christian Hoffmann
European Academy of Bolzano Institute for
Regional Development and Location Management EURAC research
Bolzano
Fyi
Best Daniela
Dear all,
the Call for Abstracts for *Session 43* "*Innovative formats of
science-policy-society interaction*" at the IUFRO 125^th Anniversary
Congress, “Interconnecting Forests, Science and People” 19.-22.
September 2017 in Freiburg, Germany
is now open. Please find details below and at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/ (for the procedural details)
and
http://iufro2017.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IUFRO2017-AllDiv9-Sessions-…
(Nr.43 for session details). Deadline for Submissions is 30th November 2016.
We are looking forward to your contributions on innovative approaches
relating to transdisciplinary forest research and scientific knowledge
transfer.
Best regards,
Michael Böcher, Michael Pregernig, Georg Winkel and Regina Rhodius
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*Innovative formats of science-policy-society interaction (session 43)*
/Regina Rhodius, Michael Böcher, Michael Pregernig, Georg Winkel/
Forest science is a discipline with a strong tradition in and focus on
applied, solution-oriented research. Nevertheless, to generate und
communicate scientific knowledge that is indeed relevant for
forest-related decisions, a better interaction between science, policy
and society is crucial. Against this background, within the session we
will discuss two current approaches contributing to bridging science,
policy and society by offering innovative formats of interaction: A) the
concept of transdisciplinarity, and B) concepts of scientific knowledge
transfer. In the subsequent panel discussion, we will bring together the
concepts and discuss in how far and under which conditions they
contribute to a better science-policy-society interaction. For both
session parts, we invite oral and poster presentations.
*/Part A: Forest science between 'research for the sector' and a new
wave of 'transdisciplinarity'/*/
//(Regina Rhodius, Michael Pregernig, Georg Winkel)/
Transdisciplinarity is seen as a new paradigm as regards the cooperation
between science and society: Following the principles of co-design, the
research topics and questions shall be set not only by the involved
scientists, but in close cooperation with practitioners and civil
society; following the principle of co-production, this cooperation
shall be continued during the following research phase itself. In light
of this, this part of the session strives to discuss and assess in how
far the concept of ‘transdisciplinarity’ relates to the current
practices in forest research. We explore, further, if the concept is
useful for forest research practice, and where the challenges to be
overcome lie. Thus, we invite papers that report on forest research
projects with a transdisciplinary approach to discuss, inter alia, the
following questions:
• How is transdisciplinarity practiced in forest research projects?
• Does it make a difference to forest research – or is it just old
wine in new skins?
• What are the main challenges forest research is facing when
applying principles of transdisciplinarity?
• What can the transdisciplinarity community learn from experiences
of forest research?
*/Part B: Advanced approaches for a better understanding of scientific
knowledge transfer for interconnecting forest-related policies, science
and people/*/
//(Michael Böcher, IUFRO sub division 9.05.07 – Science policy
interactions)/
Interconnecting forests, science and people for achieving a sustainable
life on earth is often a question of how forest-related policy decisions
from the global to the local level are based on latest scientific
findings. Especially natural scientists often claim that politicians
neglect their forest-related findings whereas political actors state
that science that they need has to be well in time, practically usable
and directed towards their current political problems. An irony is that,
despite this central “misunderstanding” between scientists and political
actors, modern forest policy that includes aspects that go much beyond
traditional forestry is more and more dependent on interdisciplinary
science-based expertise. For a successful interconnection between
forests, science, and people, we need an advanced knowledge about the
conditions under which scientific knowledge transfer can be successful
to be utilized in respective forest-related policies. Part B of the
session will take up this crucial question and wants to discuss
conceptual as well as empirical contributions that lead to an advanced
understanding of scientific knowledge transfer for interconnecting
forest-related policies, science and people. The sub session is
organized by "IUFRO sub division 9.05.07 – Science policy interactions"
and serves as a follow up to the very successful session during the last
IUFRO world congress in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Regina Rhodius
Geschäftsführung des Projektes
"Wissensdialog Nordschwarzwald - ein Reallabor-Projekt"
www.wissensdialog-nordschwarzwald.de
Gefördert vom Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Professur für Fernerkundung und Landschaftsinformationssysteme (FeLis)
Tennenbacher Str. 4
79106 Freiburg i.Br.
FON: 0761 - 203 67657
FAX: 0761 - 203 3701
regina.rhodius(a)felis.uni-freiburg.de
Website: <http://www.cfc2017.in/> http://www.cfc2017.in/
The world today is undergoing rapid socio-economic and technological changes, which have implications for the forest and environment sector, in turn affecting the ecological, economic and social well being of the people. The forestry sector must keep pace and adapt to these changes. The "Commonwealth" refers to the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of 53 sovereign nations that works together to achieve international goals such as Peace, Democracy and Consensus-building, Law, Human Rights and Development, Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development with greater trust and mutual understanding. Environment and forests are global resources and need to be focused upon by the global fraternity due to the pressures they are under as a result of the alarming growth in the human population, pressures that are being exacerbated by climate and environmental change. The year 2017 will be a key occasion for forestry professionals, academicians and all those interested in and associated with forestry sector in the Commonwealth; they will gather and share their experiences with a view to learn and develop a vision for the future that will involve inclusive and sustainable growth and development. The commonwealth forestry conferences have been held since 1920, when the first (Empire) Forestry Conference was held in London. Since then, the conferences have been held regularly to discuss various aspects of management of forests and focus the action on the changing priorities of the forestry sector.
The 19th Commonwealth Forestry Conference is scheduled to be held at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India from 3rd to 7th April, 2017. The ICFRE and FRI will be the Focal point of the conference, with support from MOEF & CC, Government of India and Commonwealth Forestry Association. The major theme of the conference will be: "Forests for Prosperity and Posterity"
Abstract submission
Abstract submission will be open until 7 November 2016, at <http://www.cfc2017.in/call-for-papers/> http://www.cfc2017.in/call-for-papers/, containing detailed instructions on how to proceed. The sub-themes are:
1. Biodiversity conservation and management
2. Livelihood and economic security from forests
3. Diversification, multiple use and sustainable harvest
4. Good governance in forestry
5. Forests and climate change
6. Forest and water
The CFC-2017 Secretariat is looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
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posted by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
Dear all
The call for abstracts for IUFRO 2017 session 99 “Adaptive spaces: can forest planning support innovative forest practice and knowledge co-creation?” is now open. The theme links governance, forest management innovation and practice, and climate change. We are looking forward to a diverse and lively session – please consider submitting an abstract! If you want to discuss your ideas, please contact one of the organisers (see below). To submit, go to http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/.
Session outline
Multiple sources of uncertainty affect future forestry, and hence current planning and practice. Rational hierarchical planning approaches are challenged by multiple crises including climate change and tree health. Conventionally practitioners are seen as the recipients of knowledge from science, and implementers of decisions from planners. However when they have to cope with uncertainty, practitioners are sometimes adapting and generating new knowledge through practice, trying out different species, silvicultural techniques and harvesting methods. Such developments contrast with the command-and-control approach based on scientific prediction, and can sit uncomfortably with the traditional characteristics of natural resource management organisations, which have been typecast as bureaucratic, hierarchical and slow to learn.
Recent analysis has highlighted the need to understand practice and knowledge co-creation, and to examine this through empirical research. This session explores two questions:
(1) how do forest practitioners (including forest managers, loggers, owners) cope with uncertainty? E.g. through developing new knowledge, based on flexibility, innovation and practitioners’ skills; and
(2) in what ways can forestry planning structures support practitioner innovation, knowledge co-production and integration of experiential learning with more conventional scientific knowledge.
The session is organised under IUFRO Working Party 4.04.08 on ‘Forest management for adaptation to climate change’. It is not restricted to climate change and will feature interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative research, combining ideas and framings from silviculture, organisational change, forest governance, and knowledge cultures. We will examine how knowledge is generated, tested, shared, adapted and adopted in management decisions; and how organisations, advisory services and decision processes may need to shift in order to accommodate this role for practitioners’ knowledge. The session is organised by researchers from different disciplines and three continents, who will also seek to include additional papers to widen the disciplinary and geographical coverage.
Best wishes
Anna Lawrence (University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, UK) – anna.lawrence.ic(a)uhi.ac.uk
Harry Nelson (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Marjanke Hoogstra (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Rod Keenan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Professor Anna Lawrence
Hon. Prof. of Human Dimensions of Forestry
University of the Highlands and Islands
Scotland, UK
e: anna.lawrence.ic.(a)uhi.ac.uk
Dear colleagues,
I would like to let you know that the Congress Scientific Committee for the upcoming IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress (to be held in Freiburg, Germany, 19-22 September, 2017) has accepted our proposal for a session, “Improved role of forests for people through favourable forest laws and environmental legislation” (session number 70), for inclusion in the Congress program.
The call for abstracts is now open at <http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts> http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts and the deadline for abstract submission is 30 November. Now, I would like to encourage you, as the prospective speakers for our session, to submit your abstracts indicating proposal number 70, “Improved role of forests for people through favourable forest laws and environmental legislation” in the Congress segment: All Division 9 (Forest Policy and Economics) Meeting.
I thank you for your cooperation and if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I am already looking forward to meet you next year in Freiburg!
Best regards,
Rastislav Sulek
IUFRO 9.06.00 Forest law and environmental legislation Coordinator
Assoc. Prof. Rastislav Šulek, Ph.D.
Department of Forest Economics and Management
Faculty of Forestry
Technical University in Zvolen
T. G. Masaryka 24, SK-96053 Zvolen, Slovak Republic
tel.: +421-45-5206325
fax: +421-45-5332654
e-mail: <mailto:sulek@tuzvo.sk> sulek(a)tuzvo.sk
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Dear all,
the Call for Abstracts for Session 34 "Institutional drivers and
barriers for the management of climate related hazards in the forest" at
the IUFRO 125^th Anniversary Congress, “Interconnecting Forests, Science
and People” 19.-22. September 2017 in Freiburg, Germany is now open.
Deadline for Submissions: 30th November 2016
Please find details here:
http://iufro2017.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IUFRO2017-AllDiv9-Sessions-…
and below in this Email.
We are looking forward to contributions from political science, planning
studies and organisational research.
Best regards,
Marco Pütz, Roderich von Detten and Sylvia Kruse
Session 34: "Institutional drivers and barriers for the management of
climate related hazards in the forest"
Forest-related hazards, e.g. wild fires, pest infestations, storms, are
expected to increase in a changing climate. Thus climate change is
expected to introduce so far unknown hazards and risks to some regions
while increasing already existing ones in other parts of the world.
While silviculture and forest planning already investigate the
consequences of these potentially harmful climate related hazards for
adaptive planning and management, socio-economic, institutional and
organisational factors are only rarely explored in forest research. We
want to address this research gap and invite both empirical and
conceptual contributions focussing on the socio-economic, institutional
or organisational factors as well as on their interlinkages that drive
and hinder the management of climate related hazards in the forest. The
following not exhaustive list of research questions could be addressed:
·Which institutional and socio-economic factors increase climate change
related hazards in the forest, such as wild fires, pest infestations,
droughts or storms? Which factors reduce the risks?
·What are the consequences for adaptation responses and how can these
responses be supported by policy and governance?
·How can institutional settings of forest management and other
interrelated policy fields (e.g. spatial planning, nature conservation)
support prevention of climate change induced forest-related hazards?
·How can adaptive governance of climate change induced forest-related
hazards be designed and what adaptive policies have already been put in
place and implemented?
·Which particular role do organizations, private or public, play for the
implementation of strategies regarding the management of climate change
hazards and risks?
·What are the particular approaches and strategies of dealing with
climate change effects with regard to different institutional/
management levels, management cultures or organizational types?
·How is the management of forest ecosystems in the face of climate
related hazards characterized in comparison with other/ “neighbouring”
sectors from natural resources management such as coast/ water
management, landscape management or agriculture?
--
Dr. Sylvia Kruse
Akademische Rätin/Lecturer
Professur für Forst- und Umweltpolitik/Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy
Universität Freiburg/University of Freiburg
Tennenbacherstr. 4
D- 79106 Freiburg
Tel: +49 (0) 761/203-3721
Email:sylvia.kruse@ifp.uni-freiburg.de
https://www.ifp.uni-freiburg.de/
Dear Member of the IUFRO Communications and Public Relations Working Party:
We had a very productive workshop in Portland, Oregon, this summer. For those who attended or missed the workshop, another opportunity exists next year for our working party to get together and present at the 125th Anniversary Congress. Our session proposal was accepted for
the upcoming IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg Germany, 19-22 September, 2017.
The call for abstracts is now open for this congress at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts and the deadline for abstract submission is 30 November. Submit abstracts indicating proposal number 174, “Connecting People to Forest Science: Innovative Communication Approaches for Delivering Science” in the Congress segment: All Division 9 (Forest Policy and Economics) Meeting as you first choice for inclusion in the program.
I will soon be sending a link with a summary, presentations, and other information from our Joint UNECE-FAO-FCN and IUFRO Communications and Public Relations Workshop held in Portland, Oregon, USA, 29 August to 1 September, 2016. We are also developing a social network for our working party. You will receive a survey in the near future that will be used to identify the best networking method for us.
Kind regards,
Cindy Miner
Coordinator, IUFRO Communications and
Public Relations Working Party
Assistant Station Director
Communications and Applications
Forest Service
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IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress
Interconnecting Forests, Science and People
19-22 September 2017 - Freiburg, Germany
http://iufro2017.com/
The Congress Scientific Committee invites submissions of abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, "Interconnecting Forests, Science and People". All submissions must be made online at the official congress website at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/ by 30 November 2016.
This Congress provides a platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge across all scientific disciplines relevant in forest research and is open to all scientists regardless of their current affiliation to IUFRO. Abstracts highlighting innovative, interdisciplinary research approaches and the transfer of scientific knowledge on critical global forest-related challenges to national and international policy agendas are encouraged.
We look forward to receiving your abstract for this unique and innovative congress to mark 125 years of active international engagement in forest research by IUFRO member institutions and individuals to be held on 19 – 22 September 2017 in Freiburg, Germany.
The Congress Organizing Committee
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The 18th international conference of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) is being hosted by the USDA Forest Service and the University of Maine in Bangor, Maine, USA. Invited keynote speakers, scientific sessions (oral and poster) and panel discussions will explore new scientific findings and their linkages with policy relating to the addressing change in boreal forests. Designed to engage and inform scientists, resource managers and policy makers, the conference themes will address the current and emerging challenges for the boreal, the role of science in addressing those challenges and the links between science, policy and practice.
Topics will include advances in research and policy relating to important regional and global issues around balancing resource use in the boreal with habitat and biodiversity objectives, strategies for mitigation of and adaptation to risks relating to a changing climate and changes in disturbance regimes, and socio-economic changes and impacts. Emphasis will be placed on the use of science to inform management practices and public policy in the boreal.
The abstract submission site will open on October 1, 2016, and authors will have until January 22, 2017 to submit papers. Sessions may be proposed to Dr. Christopher Woodall at abstracts(a)2017ibfra.org by January 1, 2017. Any questions may be directed to info(a)2017ibfra.org.
Date: 5-9 June 2017
Location: Bangor, Maine, U.S.A.
Details at: <http://2017ibfra.org/> http://2017ibfra.org/
