Dear Colleagues, If you have interesting in the session of "101 Transitions to sustainable forest management: Economic, social and cultural parameters" at the XXIV IUFRO World Congress -“Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research” to be held from 5-11 October 2014 in Salt Lake City, USA. In case you are interested, please send your abstract for contributing a paper or poster to this session by referring to the guidelines available under http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/ and use the online tool for submitting. Deadline for abstract submission is Oct, 15. We hope you find this interesting, and are looking forward to seeing you there. Best regards Liu JInlong This session will examine recent studies that shed new light on the comprehensive and dynamic interrelationship between forest transition and economic, social, cultural and political changes and discuss the implication for forest policy and related environmental and climate change policies.