[IUFRO Div 9] Broad IUFRO conference: Forest governance, policy and economics

Dear colleagues in social aspects and social sciences on forests, we are delighted to send to you the attached call for session proposals for the broad 2016 IUFRO Division 9 and 09.05 conference on: "Forest-related policy and governance: Analyses in the environmental social sciences" This international scholarly conference aims to be the global scientific hub for forest-related social sciences research, including studies on forest-related empirical fields, such as, e.g. agriculture. It will take stock of the latest scientific advancements in the fields of forest-related policy analyses, as well as wider forest-related governance studies from fields, such as, e.g. political science, sociology, anthropology, human geography, regional development, economics, psychology, environment, forest history, legal studies, as well as livelihood and tenure analyses. It strives to include theoretical, methodological and full-blown empirical contributions from around the globe in topical sessions. Kindly distribute this call widely and prepare YOUR session and paper proposals !! Looking forward to your and your colleagues' submissions. Lukas Giessen and Dodik Nurrochmat -------------------------------------- Editor in Chief, Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-policy-and-economics/ Senior Researcher and Head of Working Group International Forest Policy Chair Group of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy University of Goettingen/Germany http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/135009.html