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-1.pdf
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?

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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/