Dear colleagues of Division 9, you already received the invitation to submit proposals for the 125 anniversary conference of IUFRO to be held in Freiburg 2017. As announced earlier, our all Division 9 meeting will take place in the framework of this conference. Our meeting will comprise a sub-plenary session, a Division 9 working meeting (to discuss as well organizational issues) and hopefully many sessions organized and supported by you as Division 9 office holders and members. We are also about to plan a summer school for PhD students back to back with the meeting. It is an unique opportunity that we can have our own meeting within this conference, allowing us strengthening the collaboration between the different groups in Division 9 but as well with groups from the other Divisions. Please make use of this great opportunity, so that we all can all see us in Freiburg next year, exchanging up to date results and ideas on social scientific forest issues. When proposing a session (using the following link: http://iufro2017.com/submission-of-session-proposals/ ) please indicate at the end of the format that this is part of the Division 9 meeting. These sessions are of course open to all participants of the conference. Please spread this news as well to all members of your research and working groups. Let me know if I can be of any help in regard to sessions proposals. With best regards Daniela P.S. My greatest thanks to those of you who support the IUFRO Asia regional conference with sessions - Division 9 will do a great job there! P.S. Please remember as well the opportunity to meet at the conference„Forest-related policy and governance: Analyses in the environmental social sciences" at Bogor University / Indonesia from October 4-7 2016.** -- Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit Professur für Forst- und Umweltpolitik/ Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy University of Freiburg Tennenbacherstr. 4 D- 79106 Freiburg Tel: +49 (0) 761/203-3712 Secretariat: +49 (0) 761/203-3713