Third announcement | Call for abstracts

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The conference preparations are well underway and the Scientific Committee has received several contributions for the Technical Sessions. The PROPOSED SESSIONS are already online and OPEN FOR MORE PROPOSALS (click here to find more).

IUFRO, along with the Technical University of Lisbon/ ISA invites you to be part of this important conference and submit more proposals that surely will enrich the ambitious program.

This conference is designed to bring together researchers in forest products and related fields from around the world. Discussion will embrace progress and needs in research to meet rapidly increasing demands for all kinds of forest products, while maintaining the forest as a source of such products and a resource for social, economic and environmental benefits.

Contributions are invited that relate to the following topics (find more):

· Wood Quality	· Properties and Utilization of Plantation Woods
. Physio-mechanical Properties of Wood	· Energy and Chemicals from Forest Biomass
· Wood-based materials and their Applications	· Forest Products Marketing
· Wood Processing	· Non-wood Forest Products
· Wood Protection	· Forest Products Education
· Composites and Reconstituted Products	· Wood Culture
· Pulp & Paper	· The role of wood in a sustainable society
· Cork: the ultimate sustainable forestry practice

The 2012 D5 Conference hopes to address some of the major issues concerning FORESTS AND FOREST PRODUCTS now and into the future with Keynote talks and technical sessions.

For more information on this upcoming conference and instructions for authors, please click here.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for Technical Sessions proposals - October 31^st 2011.
Deadline for submission of abstracts – November 14^th 2011

It w ould 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.

Pekka Saranpää (Finland)	Jamie Barbour (USA)	Helena Pereira (Portugal)
Conference Chair	Conference Co-Chair	Local Organising Committee Chair

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