IUFRO – Research Group “Forest History and Traditional Knowledge”
Call for papers
“Cultural values and traditional knowledge in the context of global change”
IUFRO Division 9 Conference
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 8-10 May 2012
During the IUFRO World Congress in Seoul, Korea in August 2010, the Research Group on Forest History expanded its scope by creating two new Working Parties to continue the work of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge (2005-10). This conference will be the first meeting of our new Research Group.
Forest and agricultural landscape management practices of local communities based on their traditional knowledge offer insights into principles and approaches that may be effective in coping with, and adapting to, climate change in the years ahead. Efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, however, have not yet given adequate attention either to the forest-related knowledge and practices of traditional communities, or to the interests, needs and rights of local communities in the formulation of policies and programmes to combat climate change.
The new draft of the European Common Agricultural Policies 2014-20, promoting the diversification, rural practices characterized by lower greenhouse gas emissions, and the conservation of traditional landscapes, has clear potential for recovery of traditional knowledge and their landscapes in Europe. However, there is the need to develop appropriate planning tools for integrating environment and landscape into rural policies taking into account the cultural identity . At the global level the development of agreement between the Research Group 9.03.00 and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to expand the FAO project on rural heritage systems to include forest and woodlands, as well as the work of UNESCO on biocultural and immaterial heritage, present new research fields and challenges that need to be explored. For forestry and foresters this will require approaches for integrating natural and cultural values in a new paradigm that bridges the gap between nature and society, both in research and in development policies, and improving the uneasy relationship between, traditional knowledge and formal forest science. This new perspective seems particularly needed especially in view of the 20th anniversary of the Rio Declaration on environment and development and the need for a revised post-2012 strategy for meeting global environmental and sustainable development goals that pays greater attention to cultural values.
Topics to be considered for the meeting: traditional knowledge, planning and management, history, rural and forest policy, biodiversity, socieconomic development, monitoring..
Submission of Abstracts: An abstract of approximately 500 words may be submitted to the session organizing committee c/o Dott. Valentina Marinai, landscape(a)unifi.it. Please include the full name of authors, their affiliations and e-mail address. The deadline for abstract submission is February 15th.
The papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in the international journal “Global Environment”, while the new book series on environmental history by Springer Verlag may publish the proceedings of the meeting.
For more information on the IUFRO Division 9 Conference, please see http://www.iufro.org/download/file/7245/4677/all-division9-sarajevo12-1st-a… .
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With best regards
Daniela
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit
SLU
Unit of Forest Policy
P.O. Box 7008
SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 672493
daniela.kleinschmit(a)sprod.slu.se
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Dear all
I am hoping that you could distribute information regarding an open position (intern) at RECOFTC �C The Center for People and Forests (based in Bangkok) to relevant graduates etc.. The intern will be conducting research into forest conflicts.
Application deadline: 28th October
Start date: 3rd January 2012
Length of contract: 10 months
Preference will be given to candidates from the Asia�\Pacific region.
More information can be found at: http://www.recoftc.org/site/Careers/
Thanks and best wishes
David
David Gritten (D.Sc. Agriculture and Forestry)
Program Officer, Forest Policy & Governance
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Dear Colleagues:
The 30th General Assembly of ICSU was concluded last week in Rome.
Additional Press Releases were issued by the ICSU Secretariat at the
conclusion of the final session, one of them containing detailed information
about the new President of ICSU:
Nobel Prize winning scientist is new President of ICSU:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20Relea
se%20Presidency.pdf/view
Responsibilities of scientists underlined by scientific community:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20Relea
se%20Universality.pdf/view
You are welcome to forward these press releases to your contacts.
Best regards
Brigitte Burger
IUFRO Headquarters
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forwarded on behalf of Michael Kleine by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO
Headquarters.
Dear coordinators within Division 9,
next year the IUFRO regional congress will take place in Nairobi (June 25-30). Forest Polic, Governance and Trade is one of the major issues of the congress. This is as well major part of our competence area. For this reason I would like to ask you for active participation in the congress - either with a paper o with an own session.Please find teh detail at the following link.
http://fornis.net/content/first-iufro-fornessa-regional-congress
We can as well try to organize sessions across research groups and working parties of Division 9 if you are interested in doing so. Please let me know if you consider to take part.
With best regards
Daniela
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit
SLU
Unit of Forest Policy
P.O. Box 7008
SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 672493
daniela.kleinschmit(a)sprod.slu.se
Dear Colleagues,
Attached please find a meeting announcement which will be held during in Asia-Pacific Forestry Week. Please let me know if anyone in our group is interested in this meeting,
All the best,
Jinlong
Dear All:
You may be glad to know thatan International Conference on New Frontier
of Forest Economics (neFFE), ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, June 26-30, 2012
is being organized.A call for papers for this conference is enclosed.
Other details of this conference are available at http://www.neffe.ch/
You may like to join us in Switzerland in June 2012.
Yours
Shashi
Prof. Shashi Kant
Faculty of Forestry
University of Toronto
Dear Colleagues,
ICSU is currently holding its 30th General Assembly in Rome, Italy, in which
IUFRO is represented by Deputy Executive Director Michael Kleine.
Two press releases were issued at the conclusion of yesterday's session of
the 30th General Assembly:
- Research solutions for sustainability in a rapidly changing world:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20relea
se%20ESSI.pdf/view
- New Global science initiative on Urban Health:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20Relea
se%20Urban%20Health.pdf/view
You are welcome to forward these press releases to your contacts.
Best regards
Brigitte Burger
IUFRO Headquarters
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forwarded on behalf of Michael Kleine by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO
Headquarters.
IUFRO D5 Conference 2012 - 3rd Announcement
Call for proposals | abstracts
Dear Colleagues and friends,
Next year, from July 8 to 13 2012, the IUFRO Division 5 Conference FORESTS
& FOREST PRODUCTS will take place in Lisbon, Portugal.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
The proposed sessions are already online and OPEN FOR MORE PROPOSALS (
<http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=38> find more).
TOPICS ( <http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=61> find more)
Contributions are invited that relate to the following topics:
Wood Quality | Physiomechanical Properties of Wood | Wood-based materials
and their Applications | Wood Processing | Wood Protection | Composites
and Reconstituted Products | Pulp & Paper | Properties and Utilization of
Plantation Woods | Energy and Chemicals from Forest Biomass | Forest
Products Marketing | Non-wood Forest Products | Forest Products Education
| Wood Culture | The Role of Wood in a Sustainable Society | Cork: the
ultimate sustainable forestry practice
Instructions and submissions, please click here
<http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=37> .
DEADLINES
Technical Sessions proposals - October 31st 2011.
Submission of abstracts November 14th 2011
IUFRO, along with the Technical University of Lisbon/ ISA invites you to
take an active part in this important event through submitting more
proposals / abstracts that surely will enrich the ambitious program. The
2012 D5 Conference hopes to address some of the major issues concerning
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d3dy5pdWZybzIwMTIub3JnL25tX3F1ZW1zb21vcy5waHA/aWQ9NjM=> FORESTS AND FOREST
PRODUCTS now and into the future with keynote talks and technical sessions.
It would be greatly appreciated, if you can forward this information to your
colleagues, friends, students, or anyone who may be interested in the
conference.
Looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Best regards
Pekka Saranpää (Finland)
Conference Chair
Jamie Barbour (USA)
Conference Co-Chair
Helena Pereira (Portugal)
Local Organising Committee Chair
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Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Professor Gerard Buttoud, I am sending you the following
message:
REMINDER
Next year, from May 9 to 11 2012, a IUFRO Division 9 meeting will take place
in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During this event, a special
international conference of IUFRO 9.05 group (policy, governance) will be
held, with as a topic "Assessing forest governance in a context of change".
Please find the announcement and a first call for papers at
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/7261/4801/sarajevo12-1st-call_pdf/ .
We invite you to take an active part in this scientific event through
participating and proposing papers or posters.
Please do not forget the deadlines for submitting extended abstracts.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF 1st ROUND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS: BY 30 SEPTEMBER
2011
The registration process will come later, together with the IUFRO div. 9
meeting organisation.
We hope to meet again at this important occasion.
Sincerely Yours
Prof. Gerard Buttoud
University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy"
Please answer to my own e-mail as well as all others mentioned in CC.
Best regards
Bruno Marić
Dear Colleagues,
Forest bioenergy is one of six thematic areas included in the IUFRO Strategy
2010-2014. In this context, I would like to draw your attention to the
High-level Research Conference "The Future Role of Bio-energy from Tree
Biomass in Europe" that will be held from 6 to 11 November 2011 in Vienna,
Austria.
The conference is organized by IUFRO in collaboration with the European
Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the European Science
Foundation (ESF), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry,
Environment and Water Management, and the Austrian Federal Research and
Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW). The new
IUFRO Task Force on Forest Bioenergy has played a key role in developing the
scientific programme of the conference.
In 2011, the International Year of the Forest, the conference will
contribute to understanding bio-energy drivers, options and impacts on
forest growing, management and production of traditional goods and services
in the future. The scientific programme will focus on
- Availability of biomass
- Biodiversity, landscape ecology and soil water quality
- Supply chain and system evaluation
- Forest biomass as feedstock for the energy and biorefinery sector
The Conference will feature lectures by invited high-level speakers, short
talks by young and early stage researchers, poster sessions and open
discussion periods as well as a forward look. You can find detailed
information about the conference at <http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=8196>
http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=8196.
You are strongly encouraged to register your participation by 1 August 2011
at <http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=378&meetno=1>
http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=378&meetno=1
Kind regards,
Alexander Buck
IUFRO Executive Director
