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LiuJun刘军
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From： sist plinio <sist(a)cirad.fr>
Date： 8/31/2020 13:46
To： Jens Peter Skovsgaard <jps(a)slu.se> 、 <john.parrotta(a)usda.gov> 、 Brigitte Burger <burger(a)iufro.org> 、 kleine <kleine(a)iufro.org> 、 IUFRO Division 1 List <div1(a)lists.iufro.org>
Subject： [IUFRO Div 1] column pubished in "Le Monde" about tropical deforestation
Dear all,
I just want to inform you that yesterday, I published a column in the french newspaper "Le Monde" about tropical deforestation with a focus on the Amazon. "Le Monde" is ranked among the “benchmark” French dailies, it is the most widely read daily newspaper in France (2.42 million readers in 2016) and the second in number of copies sold (323,565 copies per issue in 2019)
here attached the document and the link: https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/08/15/la-deforestation-n-est-pas-…
cheers
Plinio Sist
Cirad-ES,
Directeur-Director UR Forêts et Sociétés
Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO) Coordinator
IUFRO 1.02.02 Ecology&Silviculture of moist forests in the tropics
Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
Tél : +33 4 67 59 39 13
Tel.Portable/Mobile Phone: +33 786 3289 46
http://ur-forets-societes.cirad.fr/
Le 12/08/2020 à 17:30, Jens Peter Skovsgaard a écrit :
Dear IUFRO colleagues
This Newsletter includes two main items:
- Division Coordinator and Board meetings. Deadline for input: 8 September 2020.
- Call for input to best practice guidelines for organizing, hosting and reporting of IUFRO online events. Deadline for input: 26 August 2020.
Division Coordinator and Enlarged Board meetings
- On 28 May 2020 the Division Coordinators and Division Deputy Coordinators convened in a Zoom meeting to discuss current affairs and to begin planning for the next Board meeting. The Covid-19 situation and the postponement of essentially all ‘classical’ IUFRO events for an unforeseeable time was a prominent item on the agenda. As part of the meeting we also briefly discussed a guideline drafted by IUFRO on best practices for participation in virtual meetings.
- On 9 September 2020 Division Coordinators and Division Deputy Coordinators will convene again in a Zoom meeting to prepare for the online Board meeting scheduled for 10-11 September.
- The Board meeting in spring 2020 was postponed to 10-11 September 2020 and will be conducted as an online Zoom meeting for the Enlarged Board (including, for example, Division Deputy Coordinators). In addition to being a ‘normal’ Board meeting with relevant business issues, strategic as well as operational, on the agenda, the meeting serves to introduce new Board members, Division and Task Force Coordinators and Deputy Coordinators to IUFRO’s general policies and mode of operation. Reporting from the Divisions and discussion of future activities are significant components of the programme. For your information, I enclose the report from Division 1. Please alert me to any items or suggestions you wish me to bring forward at the DC or at the EB meeting. I need your input no later than 8 September, but the sooner the better.
Call for input to best practice guidelines for organizing, hosting and reporting of IUFRO online events
Essentially all our IUFRO activities for 2020 have been postponed and some have even been cancelled. There is a risk that the dynamic networking of IUFRO will approach a temporary standstill. Instead, we should use this opportunity to pioneer the new tools that are now bringing the world together and which have already revolutionized our way of working and communicating. Some of the new tools, for example Zoom, seem to offer even more interactive and participatory opportunities than the telephone, the e-mail, video and other ‘old-fashioned’ online meeting facilities.
Teresa Fonseca and I are currently working to draft best practice guidelines for organizing, hosting and reporting IUFRO online events. This effort can only be done effectively with broad participation and inclusion of knowledge and experience of officeholders across all IUFRO units. There are already many general guidelines available, so we clearly want to focus on the special situation in IUFRO. Some of you may already have experience, others may have interesting or useful ideas. Our objective is to draft a set of recommendations that can be discussed by the Division Coordinators and, possibly, the Enlarged Board or the Management Committee at their meetings in September. Please send your comments, ideas and suggestions directly to Division 1 Deputy Coordinator Teresa Fonseca attfonseca(a)utad.ptno later than 26 August 2020. Teresa and I will then compile and edit a first draft for further discussion.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes,
JP
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LiuJun刘军
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IUFRO Meliaceae Group国际林联楝科工作组
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From： Brigitte Burger <burger(a)iufro.org>
Date： 8/31/2020 17:22
To： <rg10100(a)lists.iufro.org> 、 <div1(a)lists.iufro.org>
Subject： [IUFRO Div 1] Forests - Special Issue on Silviculture and Management of Boreal Forests
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From: Philip G Comeau <pcomeau(a)ualberta.ca>
To: rg10100(a)lists.iufro.org
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 10:45:34 -0700
Subject: Forests - Special Issue on Silviculture and Management of Boreal Forests
Dear Colleagues,
The boreal forest circles the northern portions of the earth and represents approximately 30% of the global forest area. This region has a short growing season with 6 to 8 months of below-freezing temperatures and a low diversity of tree species. However, it is an important source of lumber and wood fibre and provides a range of ecological and social services. Boreal forests play important roles in climate regulation and are an important reservoir of carbon. Global climate change is having major impacts and, in addition to forestry, the mining and energy sectors are active in this region.
About two-thirds of the world’s boreal forests are managed. Management intensity varies from extensive management in Canada and Russia to intensive management in Fennoscandia. Harvesting has increased the number of successional or second-growth forests in many areas, with associated changes in structural characteristics and biodiversity. Challenges to management of boreal forests include: slow growth rates, an abundance of poor soil conditions including imperfectly or poorly drained sites as well as rapidly drained sites and cold soils, wetting up of sites following harvest, remoteness, and high costs. A range of silvicultural practices, including draining, mechanical site preparation, prescribed burning, planting, thinning, and cleaning, are applied. Both even-aged and uneven-aged systems are applied, with stand and site characteristics and other factors influencing the choice of system.
The aim of this Special Issue is to document recent advances in silviculture and management of boreal forests with particular emphasis on managing boreal forests for a broad range of services and adaptation to climate change. We invite original research and review papers covering a range of topics relating to the silviculture and management of boreal forests that demonstrate and compare short-term and long-term outcomes of practices in relation to their impacts on tree growth, yield, biodiversity, economics, resilience, and other values.
The deadline for manuscript submission is April 4, 2021.
Additional information, author instructions and the link for paper submission are available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Silviculture_Management…
Phil Comeau
Professor Emeritus (Silviculture and Stand Dynamics)
University of Alberta'
Email: phil.comeau(a)ualberta.ca
Phone: 780-668-1879
1970-2020: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the BSc Forestry program at the U of A
The University of Alberta is located in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) on Treaty 6 lands, the ancestral lands of the Papaschase, and the homeland of the Métis peoples.
Dear IUFRO Meliaceae e-list:
The Meliaceae Group Coordination Team is updating the Working Party
webpages at
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10200/10204/
There are a couple of ways you can help us update the webpages.
1. We want to create a list of expertise with the Meliaceae. If you would
like to be listed, would you please send the following information?
a – your title, and first and last names
b – your institution (independent consultant or researcher is also fine)
c – your country
d – your email address
e – description of your expertise in 5-20 words (PLEASE NO MORE THAN 20 or
we will need to edit it down! And time is limited to do this sort of thing!)
2. We are building a list of key references for the Meliaceae. If you know
of good resources, can you please send the complete citation and the
electronic link to the resource? Government and organization publications
are fine to include.
Thanks!
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
IUFRO WP 1.02.04
Dear IUFRO Meliaceae E-list:
The following webinar is recorded at
https://events.icareus.com/fi/web/bright/player/event/custom?eventId=601463…
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
IUFRO WP 1.02.04
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From: Brigitte Burger <burger(a)iufro.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:44 AM
Subject: [IUFRO Div 9] Join online HLPF Side Event - Forests and
transformative pathways to sustainability
To: <div6(a)lists.iufro.org>, <div9(a)lists.iufro.org>
Dear colleagues,
*You are invited to a virtual HLPF Side Event *
*Forests and transformative pathways to sustainability *
*Thursday, 9 July 2020, 8:00-9:00 am EDT* (Eastern Daylight Time) / UTC/GMT
-4 hours
*Join us via this link: *
https://events.icareus.com/fi/web/bright/player/event/custom?eventId=601463…
Forests can be directly or indirectly linked to almost all SDGs and are
central for nature based-solutions and transformative pathways towards
sustainability. Building on the work undertaken by the International Union
of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Special Project World Forests,
Society and Environment (WFSE) and especially the recent publication
*Sustainable
Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People,* this side event
will discuss the role of forests and forestry in transformative change and
ways to accelerate the progress towards sustainability.
It will specifically discuss the role of forest in transformational change
and the levers of change across complex systems and illustrate ways to
accelerate transformative change for the forests-food-energy-climate nexus
and their potential and limitations, with emphasis on equity, gender and
governance. It will also illustrate the large potential for synergies among
the SDG targets that focus on sustainable land and resource use and the
importance of policy and regulatory environment and capacities that support
and incentivize sustainable forest-related livelihoods and development.
*Programme *
v *Opening of the event and welcome* Dr. Glenn Galloway, University of
Florida
v *Opening remarks* Jukka Salovaara, Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations
v *Forests and forestry in transformational change* Prof. Wil de Jong,
Kyoto University
v *From forest-specific sustainability to wider transformative change:
Levers of change across complex systems *Dr. Pablo Pacheco, World Wildlife
Fund
v *Advancing commitments to leave no one behind: Focus on equity, gender,
governance* Dr. Bimbika Sijabati Basnett, Center for International
Forestry Research Associate
v *Forests and SDGs: Building on synergies for transformative change *Dr.
Pia Katila, Natural Resources Institute Finland
v *Discussion *
The event is organized by IUFRO, WWF, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of
Finland, and Natural Resources Institute Finland.
*Link to the publication: **Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on
Forests and People*
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sustainable-development-goals-their-im…>
and
related *policy brief*
<https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/science/spps/wfse/wfse-pol-brief-b…>
*Contact: *Dr. Pia Katila IUFRO-WFSE Coordinator, Natural Resources
Institute Finland, pia.katila(a)luke.fi
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Dear Meliaceae E-list:
Below is the IUFRO Newsletter Issue 6 2020. Past editions of the newsletter
can be found at: https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
IUFRO WP 1.02.04
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From: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 2:38 AM
Subject: IUFRO NEWS 6, 2020
To: Dear IUFRO Officeholder <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
[image: IUFRO News]
Issue 6, 2020
IUFRO NEWS 6, 2020
Dear IUFRO Officeholder:
We are happy to present to you issue 6 of IUFRO News 2020, volume 49.
Although many IUFRO activities and events scheduled for 2020 had to be
postponed to 2021 or even cancelled, we are encouraged by the extraordinary
level of communication that continues among IUFRO units via email, social
media and online conferencing.
These activities, along with your continued communications with IUFRO
Headquarters, keep our global network thriving despite the uncertainties of
these times. For this, we are most grateful.
IUFRO News Issue 6 is also available for download as a PDF or Word file at:
https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/article/2020/06/29/…
.
*You are welcome to share this newsletter with your colleagues and publish
the link on your organization's website!*
Best wishes,
Alexander Buck
*IUFRO Executive Director*
______________________________________________
*To find out more about IUFRO, just visit* https://www.iufro.org and
follow our blog https://blog.iufro.org/, Twitter: @iufro
<https://twitter.com/IUFRO> and IUFRO Facebook entries
<https://www.facebook.com/iufro>.
*IUFRO News is widely distributed among IUFRO Members, officeholders and
other interested groups. If you would like to publish in IUFRO News,
contribute to the IUFRO website content or promote a publication via IUFRO
Spotlight, do not hesitate to contact us at IUFRO Headquarters:
office(a)iufro.org <office(a)iufro.org>*
Global Education Surveys: Share Your Perspective on the Future of Forest
Education!
[image: Photo showing a person on a swing, in front of a forest. Photo by
Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash]
IUFRO is participating in two important complementary projects
investigating the current status of forest education and employment
globally. The two projects aim to engage students, teachers, trainers and
potential employers of young forest professionals through targeted global
surveys. Your contribution to these surveys is most valuable! *More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30711>*…*
Can One Be a Successful Young Forestry Professional in Africa?
[image: Photo showing Students taking part in an excursion during the 2018
North African Regional Meeting of the International Forestry Students'
Association. Photo by courtesy of IFSA]
In May 2020 the Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education and the
International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) launched the Young
African Forestry Professionals Publication project (YAFP). The goal of the
project is to motivate young people from Africa to pursue forest-related
studies and careers. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30710>…*
Earth School – Nature-focused Online Learning Resources
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, millions of children are not able to go to
school. In response to this education crisis, UNEP and TED-Ed – with the
support of an incredible array of educators and partner organizations –
launched Earth School in April 2020. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30709>…*
International Tree Mortality Network - Data Surveys of Global Forest
Condition
[image: Photo showing living and dead trees. Photo by Gerda Wolfrum]
Due to the COVID-19 situation the workshop on global tree mortality planned
by the IUFRO Task Force on Monitoring Global Tree Mortality Patterns and
Trends had to be cancelled. Instead, two online surveys have been
developed, which will be followed by a series of virtual working group
meetings. Find out how to participate! *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30708>…*
Scientists Warn of Increasing Threats Posed by Invasive Alien Species
[image: Photo showing head of longhorn beetle. Photo on Pixabay]
In a new study, scientists from around the world - including IUFRO
immediate past President Mike Wingfield and former IUFRO Task Force
Coordinator Sandy Liebhold - warn that the threats posed by invasive alien
species are increasing. They say that urgent action is required. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30707>…*
What will happen to public space post-COVID-19?
[image: Green spaces became very popular during the pandemic. Cities like
Vancouver, Canada,enforced physical distancing rules to limit the spread of
the COVID19 virus. Photo by Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch]
As an international group of academics with an interest in urban planning
and public space – including IUFRO's Division 6 Coordinator Prof. Cecil C.
Konijnendijk van den Bosch – explains it, one of the fundamental issues
arising from the pandemic will be the long-term impact on the design, use
and perceptions of public space. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30706>…*
Mediterranean Forest and the City
[image: Photo showing Torre del Guinigi, Lucca, Italy. Photo by Fabio
Salbitano]
Here is a report from the 11th Workshop of the FAO Silva Mediterranea
Working Group on Urban and peri-urban forestry (UPF) by Fabio Salbitano. He
is one of the key organizers of the Working Group and is also particularly
active in IUFRO Working Party 8.01.02 - Landscape Ecology. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30705>…*
How to Become a Tree City?
[image: Photo showing Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is among the first
Tree Cities of the World. Photo DEZALB on Pixabay]
The Arbor Day Foundation has long aimed to build greener communities around
the world through recognition programs like Tree City USA and Tree Campus
USA. In 2019, with support from the United Nations Food & Agriculture
Organization (FAO), the first international recognition was launched: Tree
Cities of the World. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30704>…*
Increasing Tree Canopy in Philadelphia Could Lengthen Lives
[image: Photo showing Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA. Photo by Gerda Wolfrum]
In epidemiological studies, greenspaces in urban environments have been
associated with physical and mental health benefits for city dwellers.
According to a recent US Forest Service study, Philadelphia's goal to
increase tree canopy up to 30 percent in all the city's neighborhoods could
lead to significant health benefits. *More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30703>*…*
Publications
IUFRO-GFEP Global Assessment Report on Forests and Poverty: Introducing
Lead Authors
[image: Photo showing Malawi women carrying wood. Photo by Panel member
Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek]
This autumn a report will be launched on how forests and tree-based
landscapes have an influence on poverty and the wellbeing of the poor!
Watch a background video and meet some Global Forest Expert Panel (GFEP)
members! *More <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30702>…*
World Bank Policy Note: Managing Wildfires in a Changing Climate
This World Bank Policy Note is a follow-up to the Global Expert Workshop on
Fire and Climate Change jointly convened by the International Union of
Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the World Bank's Program on
Forests (PROFOR) on July 2018 in Vienna, Austria. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30701>…*
UN DESA Policy Brief: Forests at the Heart of a Green Recovery from the
COVID-19 Pandemic
[image: Photo showing the cover of a UN DESA Policy Brief]
In the brief reference is made to a 2020 study by leading economists who
found green fiscal recovery packages to be the most beneficial for COVID-19
recovery and identified five policy areas in this regard, namely, clean
physical infrastructure, building efficiency retrofits, investment in
education and training, natural capital investment, and clean research and
development. This is very relevant to the work of IUFRO. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30700>…*
FAO Policy Brief: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Forest Sector: How to
Respond?
[image: Photo showing a forest worker in the forest. Photo by Geoff Roberts]
This brief recently published by FAO highlights some of the identified and
perceived impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on development aspects
interconnected with the forest sector, with a particular emphasis on the
impacts on the production and trade of forest products. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30715>…*
New on the IUFRO Blog!
[image: Photo showing hands on a tree trunk. Photo by Shane Rounce on
Unsplash]
Read the latest Spotlight publications and a guest blog: Spotlight #79 – A
Focus on Gender Equality in Forestry;
Spotlight #78 – More Robust Strategy Needed to Combat Forest Fires in Alps;
View from the Forest: the Interlinked Crises of COVID-19, Environmental
Degradation & Inequity. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30716>…*
Books, Research Papers, Journals
Coming Soon! Forests for Public Health* (*Edited by Christos Gallis and Won
Sop Shin): This collection of papers highlights up-to-date findings and
evidence to reveal the beneficial effects of forests on human and public
health. Find further publications and calls for papers! *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30699>…*
News from Member Organizations
Obituary for Dr. Wilfredo H. Barrett
We are sad to inform the IUFRO community that the eminent Argentinian
forest scientist Ing. Agr. Dr. Wilfredo H. Barrett died on 18 May 2020 at
the age of 94. Dr. Barrett worked for many years with INTA, a long-standing
IUFRO Member Organization, and was the IUFRO International Council Member
for Argentina from 1981 to 1986. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30697>…*
Forest Research Has Grown Exponentially at USC
[image: Photo showing Australian bushland. David Mark on Pixabay]
The Forest Research Institute at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
officially opened in March 2020. It is the largest forestry research group
in Australia and brings together 80 experts eager to protect and restore
the world's precious forest. The Director of the new USC Forest Research
Institute, Professor John Herbohn, is IUFRO International Council
representative for Australia. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30696>…*
Decades of Tropical Forest Ecology Research at Risk in Venezuela
Together with colleagues, Emilio Vilanova, Universidad de Los Andes,
Mérida, and Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley,
published a commentary on the uncertain future of the more than 50
permanent forest plots in Venezuela that started as early as in the
1950s. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30695>…*
Other Information
Summer Schools & Master's Programs
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30694>
Positions <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30693>
IUFRO Meetings <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30692>
Other Meetings <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7041#c30691>
IUFRO Website Features
IUFRO Blog <https://blog.iufro.org/>
Noticeboard <https://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/>
Proceedings Archive <https://www.iufro.org/publications/proceedings/>
Scientific Summaries <https://www.iufro.org/?id=79>
RSS Feeds <https://www.iufro.org/?id=3745>
Newsletter Archive <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=147>
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*IUFRO News Issue 6*
*, 2020, published in June 2020 by IUFRO Headquarters, Marxergasse 2, 1030
Vienna, Austria. Available for download
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Dear IUFRO Meliaceae E-list:
The following announcement may be of interest.
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
IUFRO WP 1.02.04
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From: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Enhancing knowledge sharing by involving your communication
specialists
To: Dear IUFRO Associate Member <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
<https://www.iufro.org/>
* International Union of Forest Research Organizations *
Enhancing knowledge sharing by involving your communication specialists
*Dear colleague,*
I hope that you and your families are all doing well during these very
challenging times.
When I started my term as IUFRO President at the closing of our 25th IUFRO
World Congress in Curitiba, Brazil just over eight months ago, I had no
idea of the challenges that lay ahead for us all as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate impacts on our daily lives and the work of
our organizations have been dramatic, challenging many of our assumptions
and requiring resilience and creativity in dealing with new realities.
Keeping in touch during these past months with so many members of our
global forest science community has been truly inspiring. I have been
deeply impressed by the phenomenal commitment, solidarity, energy and
enthusiasm
for important work that members of our IUFRO "family" have maintained
despite the tremendous obstacles that this global health crisis has
presented.
This current crisis has been a powerful reminder of the importance of sound
scientific knowledge and international scientific collaboration for solving
global challenges. This is as true for the many forest-related issues we
are all working to find solutions for as it is for pandemics.
The research and educational work that each of you do is vitally important.
The knowledge and skills that you foster contribute directly to the
conservation and sustainable use of forest resources and landscapes, and
the wellbeing of people.
IUFRO continues to offer a unique platform for us to share our scientific
knowledge and experience so that all of us – wherever we live and work –
can more quickly adapt and apply the best available scientific knowledge to
the forest-related challenges we face.
Successful knowledge sharing requires open and effective two-way
communications. Continual improvement of IUFRO’s communications – both
internal and external – is therefore one of my top priorities as IUFRO
President.
Therefore, I cordially invite you to make use of IUFRO’s communication
tools and channels (newsletter, social media, web pages and other) in order
to share your news with the IUFRO community and wider audiences. At the
same time, it would be great if you also disseminated news that you receive
from IUFRO to your audiences.
I also invite you to share with me any issues, concerns and – especially -
great ideas for improving the quality and impact of IUFRO’s work and how we
share our collective accomplishments within our network and beyond. Please
feel free to contact me at any time: *john.parrotta(a)usda.gov*
<john.parrotta(a)usda.gov>*.*
With warm regards and best wishes,
Dr. John Parrotta
*IUFRO President*
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Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:52 PM
Subject: [IUFRO Div 4] IUFRO Spotlight #79 - A Focus on Gender Equality in
Forestry
To: Dear Reader of IUFRO News <div4(a)lists.iufro.org>
[image: IUFRO Spotlight]
IUFRO Spotlight #79 - A Focus on Gender Equality in Forestry
*IUFRO Spotlight is an initiative of the International Union of Forest
Research Organizations. Its aim is to introduce, in a timely fashion,
significant findings in forest research from IUFRO officeholders and member
organizations to a worldwide network of decision makers, policy makers and
researchers. IUFRO will encapsulate, and distribute in plain language,
brief, topical and policy-relevant highlights of those findings, along with
information on where/how to access the full documents.*
*Occasionally, IUFRO Spotlight also presents special activities such as
sessions at major IUFRO congresses or the work of the IUFRO Task Forces.
These focus on emerging key issues that contribute to international
processes and activities and are of great interest to policy makers and to
groups inside and outside the forest sector. With those criteria in mind,
the Spotlights for the next several months will highlight the undertakings
and goals of the IUFRO Task Forces. The IUFRO Spotlights will be
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A Focus on Gender Equality in Forestry
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[image: Photo showing hands on a tree. Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash]
Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash
When one thinks of forests, forestry and forest research, gender equality
is probably not the first thing that springs to mind.
But it actually makes a lot of sense, explains Dr. Gun Lidestav, of the
Department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Science. Dr. Lidestav is also Coordinator of the IUFRO Gender
Equality in Forestry Task Force (TF).
"Forestry has always been about people as much as it is about trees and the
biophysical conditions of this particular land use. However, forest
research worldwide leans heavily toward the latter aspects," she said.
"But now, forestry-related processes will be guided by the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) and the Agenda 2030 adopted by the United Nations.
"The 5th SDG deals with gender equality, and that has become, for forestry,
a cross-cutting issue related to governance, policies and strategies at
different societal and organizational levels," she said.
There are different cultures and different forest issues in different parts
of the world, so addressing the gender equality issue does not lend itself
to a one-size-fits-all solution.
"We understand gender as a social and cultural construct. Gender and
gendering processes play out differently in different contexts," Dr.
Lidestav said. "As researchers, and research organizations, we must be able
to understand the interaction/relation between gender and context, e.g. how
gender impacts forest(ry) and how forest(ry) impacts gender.
Therefore, for this TF, it has been crucial to have broad geographic and
topic representation." She notes that one of the strengths of her TF is
that "within the team we have a broad range of different competencies in
science, in research and in practitioners.
"We understand that policies, conventions and directives are tasks to be
developed, agreed on and implemented by policy makers. But it is the duty
of the scientific community to provide data, theories and methods to help
policy makers understand the specific ways that gender shapes everyday
lives, employment opportunities, knowledge production, and forest use," Dr.
Lidestav said.
"Therefore, integrating gender as a cross-cutting issue in the
implementation of the IUFRO Strategy as well as strengthening the
participation of scientists on equal terms, are the main objectives of the
TF. This work will then provide a basis for gender mainstreaming processes
within the IUFRO network, and hopefully beyond – i.e. advancing gender
equality in forestry worldwide," she said.
It won't happen overnight. "Not everyone – and that can be true at all
organizational or societal levels – thinks it is an important and relevant
issue in which to become involved," added Dr. Lidestav.
"An organization may have an overall strategy that supports gender
equality. But, in those areas where men are dominant – forestry or
research, as examples – men are the norm. And the understanding of gender
and gender equality can then become a 'women's issue' rather than an
organizational one that involves both men and women. That is one of the
major obstacles we have to overcome."
The approach that her TF will take is to explain and promote gender
equality as it relates to the scientific and research practices of IUFRO.
And, by examining selected gender equality initiatives in different parts
of the world, it will provide examples of research and policy interaction.
[image: Photo showing Scientists at XXV IUFRO World Congress poster session
in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo COC.]
Scientists at XXV IUFRO World Congress poster session in Curitiba, Brazil.
Photo COC.
Dr. Lidestav's goal for the Gender Equality TF is to have "an action plan
proposal to be presented, discussed and agreed upon at the IUFRO 2024 World
Congress in Stockholm, Sweden.
"The proposal will emerge from a solid evidence base, foster an inclusive
mindset, and communicate and recognize progress. In this particular
context, we will collect and analyze data to explain and advance gender
equity and diversity in the forest research and policy practice interface.
"To anchor the proposal, inputs will be sought for a diverse set of groups
within the IUFRO network through various consultations and strategic
dialogues organized during major IUFRO events," she said.
*Find out more about the IUFRO Task Force on Gender Equality in Forestr*y:
https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/gender-equality-in-forestry/
*In May 2020 Dr. Lidestav would have been the keynote speaker of an
international networking conference entitled "Forests in Women's Hands",
which had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event shall now
take place on April 12th - 14th, 2021, at WALDCAMPUS Austria, Traunkirchen,
Austria*: https://forstfrauen.at/en/konferenz-2021
*The IUFRO TFs are established on a temporary basis during each 5-year
IUFRO Board term and focus on emerging key forest-related issues. The nine
current TFs will run till 2024 at which time their relevance will be
assessed in relation to the forest issues of the day.*
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Dear IUFRO Meliaceae E-list:
The IUFRO 2019 Annual Report is now available. Please see below.
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
IUFRO WP 1.02.04
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Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:12 AM
Subject: IUFRO Annual Report 2019 now available!
To: Dear IUFRO Officeholder <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
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* International Union of Forest Research Organizations *
IUFRO Annual Report 2019 now available!
Dear IUFRO Members and Officeholders,
We are happy to inform you that the IUFRO Annual Report 2019 can be
downloaded from:
*https://www.iufro.org/news/article/2020/05/26/annual-report-2019/
<https://www.iufro.org/news/article/2020/05/26/annual-report-2019/.>*.
There you will find both a *comprehensive version of the Annual Report and
a short version focusing on the highlights of the year*.
We all know that the Annual Report for 2020 will unfortunately look very
different. However, we trust that the great expertise, experience and
creativity within our network will help us expand and strengthen our
collaboration in order to contribute our pooled knowledge to building back
better.
Enjoy the read!
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Dear IUFRO Meliaceae E-list:
The following announcement may be of interest.
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Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
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From: Brigitte Burger <burger(a)iufro.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 6:31 AM
Subject: [IUFRO Div 4] Surveys on data on global forest condition
To: <div4(a)lists.iufro.org>, <div7(a)lists.iufro.org>
Dear colleagues,
Due to the current health situation we, the* IUFRO Task Force on Monitoring
Global Tree Mortality Patterns and Trends*, had to cancel our first
workshop on “*Harmonizing terrestrial data sources on forest condition*”
that was supposed to be held in Wuerzburg, Germany, at the end of March. We
have acted upon the corona restrictions and have substituted the 'physical'
workshop with two online surveys, which will be followed by a series of
virtual working group meetings.
Surveys and workshops aim to identify existing *terrestrial *and *remote
sensing data* *sources on forest condition* and how the data can be
harmonized to infer information on tree mortality rates and trends over
time. We now seek your help to *assemble information on existing data
sources that allow deriving global tree mortality rates*. The links below
will take you to the surveys, specifically designed to be as brief as
possible. The surveys seek to assemble metadata on existing data sources in
order to:
· develop methods for quantification of tree mortality rates
consistently across different protocols, and
· link ground and satellite-based information to understand how tree
mortality changes over time.
*Terrestrial data*: https://forms.gle/NnVfhLv66j1Hnbro6
*Remote sensing data*: https://forms.gle/h9eXvob7E6ZXRjxVA
Data hosting will be assumed by the *International Tree Mortality Network* (
https://www.tree-mortality.net/) which is an initiative established by
the *IUFRO
Task Force on Monitoring Global Tree Mortality Patterns and Trends*.
Please contact us (
https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/tree-mortality-patterns/) if
you’re interested in joining the post-survey workshops or for any other
requests or inquiries.
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Dr. (habil.) Henrik Hartmann
Group leader
Plant Allocation
MPI for Biogeochemistry
Hans Knöll Str. 10
07745 Jena, Germany
Contact: hhart(a)bgc-jena.mpg.de
Phone: +49.3641.576294
Mobile: +49.171.8188273
Website:
https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgp/index.php/HenrikHartmann/HenrikHartmann
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