Dear IUFRO Meliaceae Working party:
Below is IUFRO Spotlight #58. Other Spotlights can be found at:
http://www.iufro.org/media/iufro-spotlights/
Regards,
Sheila Ward
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Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:43 AM
Subject: IUFRO Spotlight #58 - To build a healthier city, build a better
forest
To: Dear IUFRO Officeholder <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
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IUFRO Spotlight #58 - To build a healthier city, build a better forest
*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. The *IUFRO Spotlight* findings will
be distributed in a periodic series of emails as well as blog postings.
*________________________________*
*To build a healthier city, build a better forest*
PDF for download
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*Design of trees along streets is important to minimize trapping of
pollutants along sidewalks and roads. Photo: David Nowak*
City dwellers around the world could live healthier lives and see health
care costs shrink simply by implementing better urban forest design,
planning and management.
Recent innovative studies conducted in Canada and the U.S. show that trees
remove air pollution – both gaseous and particulate pollutants – and this
has a beneficial effect on human health.
And, while the concepts of trees scrubbing the air and cleaner air having
beneficial effects are not particularly new, "the innovation derives from
linking pollution removal by trees to human health in cities," said Dr.
David Nowak of the US Forest Service, and one of the authors of the studies.
"We know the existing forest is already removing air pollution, but better
designs and management could be used to produce further air quality
improvements using trees and forests. This, in turn, would improve human
health and significantly reduce associated health care costs," he said.
"Computer simulations with local environmental data reveal that trees in 86
Canadian cities removed 16,500 tonnes of air pollution in 2010, with human
health effects valued at $227.2 million Canadian dollars," said Dr. Nowak.
In an earlier study of U.S. trees and forests nationally, again using 2010
as the base year, human health effects were valued at US $6.8 billion, and
17.4 million tonnes of air pollution were removed.
The Canadian government – Environment and Climate Change Canada – helped
fund the more recent study (Air pollution removal by urban forests in
Canada and its effect on air quality and human health) shortly after the
2014 publication of the assessment for the U.S. done by Dr. Nowak and his
colleagues.
"All countries could use and benefit from this type of information," Dr.
Nowak said. "The processes of trees are fairly consistent across the globe,
but the results will vary based on local environmental conditions and human
and forest populations.
"A series of free tools is available to aid cities and forest managers
globally in assessing their current forest structure and benefits (
www.itreetools.org). We've now incorporated this particular process into
the i-Tree Eco model to help managers estimate these and other effects and
values from trees and forests," he said.
*Since its release in 2006, there have been over 247,000 users of i-Tree
tools in 131 countries.*
i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the Forest
Service of the USDA that provides urban and rural forestry analysis and
benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree tools can help strengthen forest
management and advocacy efforts by quantifying forest structure and the
environmental benefits that trees provide.
Since the initial release of the i-Tree tools in August 2006, thousands of
communities, non-profit organizations, consultants, volunteers and students
around the world have used i-Tree to report on individual trees, parcels,
neighborhoods, cities, and entire states.
By understanding the local, tangible ecosystem services that trees provide,
i-Tree users can link forest management activities with environmental
quality and community livability.
Dr. Nowak pointed out that trees provide multiple benefits in addition to
pollution removal, so it follows that better urban forest design and
management, in addition to improving human health and lowering
health-related costs, could also reduce other urban problems and costs,
such as energy use, flooding, high air temperatures, etc.
"If better forest designs and management are instituted to improve air
quality, people living in cities everywhere should benefit," he continued.
"Even though the percentage of air quality improvement is relatively small,
these improvements in air quality impact human health," said Dr. Nowak.
"Cities are not just people, buildings, roads and cars. They also have
substantial amounts of natural elements such as trees, grass, soil,
wildlife etc. that play essential roles within city environments," he said.
Dr. Nowak said the role of natural elements within cities has been known
for centuries. "But, to better incorporate these elements, we need to
include them throughout the design, planning and management process of the
cities."
Cities would have to assess their current forest distribution and
conditions. With that information and knowledge of tree effects on air
pollution, specific management plans could be developed to maximize tree
impacts on human health.
Policy makers, he said, should recognize that trees and forests within
cities affect air quality and can be used to further improve that air
quality. Investing in improving city forests and their management can yield
improvements in human health and wellbeing and save money in the long run.
The full report can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/
science/article/pii/S1618866717302182
Dr. David Nowak is the coordinator of IUFRO Research Group 6.07.00 – Urban
forestry: https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60700/
<http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60700/>
*________________________________*
The findings reported in *IUFRO Spotlight* are submitted by IUFRO
officeholders and member organizations. IUFRO is pleased to highlight and
circulate these findings to a broad audience but, in doing so, acts only as
a conduit. The quality and accuracy of the reports are the responsibility
of the member organization and the authors.
Suggestions for reports and findings that could be promoted through *IUFRO
Spotlight* are encouraged. To be considered, reports should be fresh, have
policy implications and be applicable to more than one country. If you
would like to have a publication highlighted by Spotlight, *contact: Gerda
Wolfrum, IUFRO Communications Coordinator, wolfrum(at)iufro.org
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The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) is the
only worldwide organization devoted to forest research and related
sciences. Its members are research institutions, universities, and
individual scientists as well as decision-making authorities and other
stakeholders with a focus on forests and trees.
Visit: http://www.iufro.org/
*________________________________*
*IUFRO Spotlight #58, published in March 2018 by IUFRO Headquarters,
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Dear IUFRO Meliaceae Working party:
Below is IUFRO Spotlight #57. Other Spotlights can be found at:
http://www.iufro.org/media/iufro-spotlights/
Regards,
Sheila Ward
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From: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:10 AM
Subject: IUFRO Spotlight #57 - Transition in forest uses demands change in
approaches
To: Dear IUFRO Officeholder <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
[image: IUFRO Spotlight]
IUFRO Spotlight #57 - Transition in forest uses demands change in
approaches
*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. The *IUFRO Spotlight* findings will
be distributed in a periodic series of emails as well as blog postings.
*________________________________*
*Transition in forest uses demands change in approaches*
PDF for download
<https://www.iufro.org/download/file/27460/6546/spotlight57-transition-in-fo…>
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*Wood chips being transported to a pulp mill. These chips represent the
waste stream from a saw mill, but are becoming increasingly valuable as
more and more uses for wood are developed. Photo by John Innes.*
"The portfolio of goods and services from forests is now very different to
that two decades ago; yet there is a disconnect between the institutional
framework and these new forms of forest use, leading to efficiency, equity
and legitimacy deficits," said Dr. John Innes, Dean of the Faculty of
Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
The changes – from forest planting and forest harvesting and operations, to
forest use and forest products – occur at different levels. Today, forests
produce a complex array of products from forest ecosystem services to
timber and bio-products.
Market values are increasingly being attached to forest ecosystem services
and this is changing the value systems associated with forestry.
Dr. Innes is coordinating a Task Force set up by IUFRO – *Resources for the
Future: Transformation in Forest Use* – to better understand those
changes.
"Globalization, population growth, resource scarcity and ecological
degradation are all influencing forest use," he said.
"For instance, a growing middle class requires more forest products
accessible through global supply chains. At the same time, these supply
chains are threatened by, and contribute to, resource scarcity and
ecological degradation," he said. "In another example, policy makers have
identified forest products as important to climate change, so new products
have been developed to meet the climate challenge.
"Both these examples have explicit implications for forests and are
transforming forest use, yet the institutional response has been slow and
inadequate in dealing with these drivers," he said.
Dr. Innes further noted that humans now value, in monetary terms, the full
breadth of forest ecosystem services including non-market values and that
now we also view forests as feedstock for the bio-economy.
"These are distinct and relatively nascent changes in our relationship with
forests," he said. "For many Indigenous communities across the globe, the
changing relationship with forests has been dramatic – particularly as they
engage in the forest sector as market participants.
"Valuation of forest ecosystem services can run counter to holistic
Indigenous values; but valuation also affords protection by adequately
recognizing, quantifying and integrating these values into decisions, and
policy makers can consider the full costs of their decision. These values
in the past were typically ignored," Dr. Innes added.
The Task Force will seek to generate insights about the pathways that can
be adopted to encourage a sustainable transformation in forest resource
use.
It will identify institutions, governance structures, policies and
instruments that can help policy makers and stakeholders address problems
and capitalize on opportunities brought about by rapid change and describe
the potential benefits and implications from them in terms of equity,
effectiveness and efficiency.
It will also develop recommendations for forest research institutions to
build understanding for, and implementation of, those various tools to
support successful transformation in forest use.
The Task Force also convened a roundtable of leading global experts from
government, industry, academia, NGOs and Indigenous groups in Dehradun,
India in April of this year to further discuss the sustainable
transformation of forest use. A book elaborating on the outcomes of that
roundtable is expected in the near future.
The Task Force on the transformation in forest use future is one of several
established by IUFRO to advance knowledge under five research themes in
accordance with the IUFRO 2015-19 Strategy.
The five themes are: Forests, Soil and Water Interactions; Forests for
People; Forests and Climate Change; Forests and Forest-based Products for a
Greener Future; and Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Biological
Invasions.
Task Force website: http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/transformation-
forest-use/
*________________________________*
The findings reported in *IUFRO Spotlight* are submitted by IUFRO
officeholders and member organizations. IUFRO is pleased to highlight and
circulate these findings to a broad audience but, in doing so, acts only as
a conduit. The quality and accuracy of the reports are the responsibility
of the member organization and the authors.
Suggestions for reports and findings that could be promoted through *IUFRO
Spotlight* are encouraged. To be considered, reports should be fresh, have
policy implications and be applicable to more than one country. If you
would like to have a publication highlighted by Spotlight, *contact: Gerda
Wolfrum, IUFRO Communications Coordinator, wolfrum(at)iufro.org
<http://iufro.org>*.
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) is the
only worldwide organization devoted to forest research and related
sciences. Its members are research institutions, universities, and
individual scientists as well as decision-making authorities and other
stakeholders with a focus on forests and trees.
Visit: http://www.iufro.org/
*________________________________*
*IUFRO Spotlight #57, published in September 2017by IUFRO Headquarters,
Vienna, Austria.Available for download at:
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Dear IUFRO Meliaceae Working party:
Below is IUFRO Spotlight #56. Other Spotlights can be found at:
http://www.iufro.org/media/iufro-spotlights/
Regards,
Sheila Ward
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From: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:58 AM
Subject: IUFRO Anniversary Congress Spotlight #56: Environment vs. economy:
Mapping the forest environmental frontier
To: Dear IUFRO Officeholder <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
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IUFRO Anniversary Congress Spotlight #56: Environment vs. economy:
Mapping the forest environmental frontier
*The 125th Anniversary Congress on 18-22 September 2017 in Freiburg,
Germany, will offer a wide selection of scientific sessions highlighting
innovative research and interdisciplinary research approaches of relevance
to forests, and focus on the transfer of scientific knowledge on critical
global forest-related challenges to national and international political
agendas. In a series of "Congress Spotlight" articles individual sessions
shall be showcased to give a foretaste of the richness and scope of
research findings that will be presented at the Congress. Keep updated at:
http://iufro2017.com/ <http://iufro2017.com/>*
*Environment vs. economy: Mapping the forest environmental frontier*
PDF for download
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*Photo by Geoff Roberts, Australia*
To some, the forests mean combatting illegal logging and associated trade,
avoiding deforestation and degradation, conserving biodiversity and
protecting wilderness.
To others, the forests mean timber as a renewable raw material for uses
such as construction and bioenergy, forest-based climate change adaptation
and mitigation and transitioning toward a forest-based bioeconomy.
"These issues can be termed the global forest environmental frontier," said
Dr. Georg Winkel, Head of the European Forest Institute's Resilience
Research Programme in Bonn, Germany.
"All the issues are interrelated and relate to a global controversy that
asks how we can keep and manage the world's forests to satisfy both
ecological and socio-economic needs now and in the future," he said.
Dr. Winkel is coordinator of a session entitled *The Global Forest
Environmental Frontier – What has changed, what has remained unchanged, how
will the future look?* at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg,
Germany in September.
Forests mean many different things to many different people and are managed
for many, often conflicting, societal needs and claims, he said.
"At the core, however, the questions are: what role do forests play as a
natural resource? What are the current and future prospects? And how has
the environmental debate relating to forests and forestry evolved in the
last decades and in different regions of the world?
"It's a debate that involves different scientific disciplines, policy
sectors, political-administrative settings, societal groups and economic
players in a variety of regional settings," he said.
In terms of discourse analysis, delineating the frontier has, in his
opinion, become more complex since the 1980s when, in several forest
regions across the planet, to talk about the frontier would have meant
talking about open conflict between the forest sector and environmental
groups.
While this has not entirely gone away, Dr. Winkel said the debate today is
much more multi-faceted and much less 'black and white'.
"Take the issue of the forest-based bioeconomy. Many see this as part of a
solution for critical environmental problems such as climate change
mitigation," he said. "At the same time, the bioeconomy is still about
harvesting wood that can have significant trade-offs with ecological
aspects, as an example, biodiversity conservation."
Elaborating on this evolution of the frontier, its shifting boundaries and
finding common denominators for the changes, will be at the heart of his
Congress session.
While he finds it difficult to have a clear vision of what, in terms of the
frontier, will transpire in the future, he sees at least three possible
scenarios.
"These are only possible options," he cautions. "They're not built on any
substantial data; simply looking at current debates and developments.
They're just three possible ways of thinking about what might happen."
- The frontier built upon fundamentally different human values and
interests towards forests will persist, but the topics and venues will
change over the years. This, he went on to say, is what we've seen over the
last decades;
- The frontier will disperse and get permeable as socio-economic
interests and environmental beliefs become less and less divisible. This,
he said, refers to the necessity to integrate environmental values in
sustainable business development. For instance, a forest bioeconomy needs
to be sustainable and must have a social license to operate. There could be
increasing pressure to demonstrably integrate environmental values in
forest products and ecosystem services value chains and thus be seen as a
sustainable business as the economy transforms away from non-renewable
resources.
- The frontier will fade away because either the environmental beliefs
will vanish or, through technological change, the necessity to use forest
biomass will decrease. This scenario is the 'wild card' option. "It's
really hypothetical," Dr. Winkel said. "Societal values always change. No
one can really know how these values will develop in the future. As for the
possibility of technological change, again it's totally hypothetical and
assumes a major unforeseeable change that shifts demand – something like
coal replacing wood as an energy source in the 18th-19th centuries.
"It will be quite interesting," he concludes, "to see how our presenters
evaluate the future of the frontier at the Congress in Freiburg."
*________________________________*
*The September 18-22 Congress in Freiburg will celebrate IUFRO's 125th
anniversary. Founded in 1892 in Eberswalde Germany, IUFRO has grown to
unite more than 15,000 scientists (who cooperate in IUFRO on a voluntary
basis) in almost 700 member organizations in more than 120 countries.IUFRO
promotes global cooperation in forest-related research and enhances the
understanding of the ecological, economic and social aspects of forests and
trees. It disseminates scientific knowledge to stakeholders and
decision-makers and contributes to forest policy and on-the-ground forest
management.About 2000 scientists from 89 countries are expected to attend
the Congress. The Forest Environmental Frontier session in Freiburg will be
one of 172 scientific sessions that will cover a wide array of topics
dealing with various aspects of forest research.See you at the IUFRO 125th
Anniversary Congress in Freiburg, Germany!Look out for #IUFRO2017
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/iufro2017?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash>
on Twitter and @iufro2017 <https://www.facebook.com/iufro2017> on Facebook!*
*________________________________*
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) is the
only worldwide organization devoted to forest research and related
sciences. Its members are research institutions, universities, and
individual scientists as well as decision-making authorities and other
stakeholders with a focus on forests and trees.
Visit: http://www.iufro.org/
*________________________________*
*IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress Spotlight #56, published in September
2017by IUFRO Headquarters, Vienna, Austria.Available for download at:
**http://www.iufro.org/media/iufro-spotlights/
<http://www.iufro.org/media/iufro-spotlights/>*
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Dear Meliaceae Working party:
Below is the IUFRO Issue 6 2018 newsletter. Past editions of the newsletter
can be found at: https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/
Sheila Ward
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From: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:05 AM
Subject: IUFRO NEWS 6, 2018
To: Dear Reader of IUFRO News <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
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Issue 6, 2018
IUFRO NEWS 6, 2018
Dear Reader of IUFRO News:
We are happy to present to you issue 6 of IUFRO News 2018, volume 47. The
newsletter is also available for download as a PDF or Word file at:
https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/.
You are welcome to pass on this newsletter to your colleagues!
To find out more about IUFRO, just visit <https://www.iufro.org/>
www.iufro.org and follow our blog http://blog.iufro.org/, Twitter: @iufro
<http://twitter.com/IUFRO> and IUFRO Facebook entries
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Enjoy the read!
Alexander Buck
*IUFRO Executive Director *
*Submit your nominations for candidates for IUFRO World Congress Awards by
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*International Conference on Ozone and Plant Ecosystems*
Ozone pollution continues to be a serious issue for terrestrial ecosystems
and plant health. The conference on 21-25 May 2018 in Sant'Apollonia
Auditorium Florence, Italy, allowed experts in the field of interactions
between ozone and plant ecosystems to meet and discuss the state-of-the-art
and future strategies for decision-makers. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27686>…
*Transformations towards a New Era in Small Scale Forestry*
The IUFRO 3.08.00 Small-Scale Forestry conference on 11-13 June 2018 in
Vaasa, Finland, discussed landholder engagement with aims to unify
stakeholders and empower small-scale forest owners. Conflicting land-use
issues were addressed such as swidden agriculture as well as hunting
rights. *More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27685>…
*Communicating Risks in Decision Support Systems: from basic research to
advance decision support tools*
Risk analysis is an emerging field of research and relatively new in
forestry. The international conference on 6-8 June 2018 in Solsona and
Barcelona, Spain, focused on presenting models, methods and decision
support systems that might be used by public administrators, forest owners
and industry for forest management planning in a context of risk and
uncertainty. *More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27684>…
*Natural Resources, Green Technology and Sustainable Development*
Following the great success of GREEN 2014 and GREEN 2016, the conference
3-GREEN 2018 on 5-8 June in Zagreb, Croatia, brought together leading
experts in the fields of forest and biotechnology from around the world to
present recent achievements, share the latest developments and address
present and future challenges. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27683>…
*New: IUFRO World Series 37*
This book comprises fifteen major contributions by leading scholars on the
ecology, history, heritage, and management of ancient trees, ancient
woodlands and forests. Taking trees, woods and forests as eco-cultural
resources, the authors explore ecology and nature, history, tradition and
heritage, and the evidence base of archaeology, literature, and archives.
*More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27682>…
*New: IUFRO Spotlight #59*
A Special Issue of the International Forestry Review developed by IUFRO
WFSE takes a closer look at forestry discourses, and specifically how they
have affected forest-based development. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27681>...
*10 July at HLPF, New York: Launch of GFEP Report on Forest and Water
Interactions*
The Global Forest Expert Panel (GFEP) on Forests and Water has finalized
its comprehensive scientific assessment. A report and policy brief will be
launched in the course of a side event of the HLPF in New York titled
"Forests and Water on a Changing Planet: Scientific Insights for Building
Sustainable and Resilient Societies" and hosted by the Permanent Mission of
Austria to the UN and IUFRO on Tuesday 10 July, 13.15-14.30 (EDT). *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27680>…
*Awards - Nominate Your Candidates for IUFRO World Congress Awards!*
At the XXV IUFRO World Congress to be held from 29 September to 5 October
2019 in Curitiba, Brazil, IUFRO will again honor outstanding scientific
achievements and contributions to forestry with a range of awards. You are
invited to nominate suitable candidates for the various categories of
awards by 31 August 2018. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27675>…
*XXV IUFRO World Congress – Call for Sessions*
In keeping with the spirit of the Congress title – *Forest Research and
Cooperation for Sustainable Development* - the Congress Scientific
Committee (CSC) is developing a program that will highlight the
contributions that forest science is making to address the significant
environmental, social and economic challenges facing our world. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6657#c27679>…
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Issue 5, 2018
IUFRO NEWS 5, 2018
Dear Reader of IUFRO News:
We are happy to present to you issue 5 of IUFRO News 2018, volume 47. The
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*Tree Motion and Wind Measurement*
The international Tree Motion and Wind Measurement Workshop in Roskilde,
Denmark, addressed the needs of both meteorologists and tree/forest
biologists to make accurate and appropriate measurements of the wind and of
tree movement. The workshop was sponsored by IUFRO Working Party 8.03.06 -
Impact of wind on forests. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27593>…
*Sustainable Forest Management for the Future - The Role of Managerial
Economics and Accounting*
The Faculty of Forestry of Zagreb University, together with the Croatian
Forest Research Institute, hosted an international conference in Zagreb,
Croatia, in May with a focus on the economic and accounting aspects of SFM.
The meeting was co-sponsored by IUFRO Units 4.05.00, 4.05.01, 4.05.02, and
4.05.03. *More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27592>…
*New Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation of Wood*
The technical workshop on New Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation of Wood
held in Beijing in May was co-sponsored by Beijing Forestry University,
IUFRO RG 5.01.00 and WP 5.01.09, and others. Presentations focused on
advances in non-destructive and precision-based technologies for evaluating
wood quality of forest resources and assessing structural conditions of
historic timber structures. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27591>…
*Operations Management in Wood Products Industries*
On 17 May Vienna's University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
Austria, hosted the second symposium on Operations Management in Wood
Products Industries. The symposium aimed to introduce and discuss new
challenges and solution approaches for the process improvement in the wood
industry and its supply chain. It was co-sponsored by IUFRO Working Party
5.04.12. *More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27590>…
*UNFF13 and Glimpses of the Upcoming Global GFEP Study on Forests and Water*
At the thirteenth session of the UN Forum on Forests GFEP co-chair Meine
van Noordwijk was a panelist in the Panel Discussion on the Contribution of
Forests to the Achievement of the SDGs and Transformation towards
Sustainable and Resilient Societies. The new global assessment report on
forests and water will be launched at the UN High-Level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development (HLPF 2018) in New York this July. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27589>...
*XXV IUFRO World Congress – Call for Sessions Now Open!*
In keeping with the spirit of the Congress title – Forest Research and
Cooperation for Sustainable Development - the Congress Scientific Committee
(CSC) is developing a program that will highlight the contributions that
forest science is making to address the significant environmental, social
and economic challenges facing our world. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27598>…
*IUFRO-EFI Young Scientists Initiative 2018: Our very first grantee, Ms
Minette Nago*
Ms Nago, from Cameroon, is the first candidate to start the IUFRO-EFI Young
Scientists Initiative research visit. This brand new initiative is designed
to provide a mobility grant for promising young scientists from Africa,
Asia and Latin America. Her project is titled "The politics of forest and
climate change cooperation in Congo basin" and is currently being conducted
at Goettingen University, Germany. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6646#c27597>…
*Two New Division 3 Podcast Episodes on Steep Slope Harvesting*
In episodes 15 and 16 of the podcast series James Hunt and Dzhamal Amishev
(FPInnovations) provide an overview of the new Steep-Slope Initiative of
FPInnovations and talk about collaboration efforts with industry and global
partners. They also highlight the importance of research to fill existing
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Issue 1/2018
IUFRO NEWS 1, 2018
Dear IUFRO Officeholder:
We are happy to present to you Issue 1 of IUFRO News 2018, volume 47. The
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*GLF 2017 - Connecting Communities: Accelerating Action for a Sustainable
World*
On December 19th-20th, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) brought together
1000 attendees from 103 countries in the World Conference Center in Bonn,
Germany. IUFRO was strongly represented at the 2017 event with two
discussion forums and an exhibition booth at the Restoration Pavilion.
*More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6602#c27175>…
*2017 Wangari Maathai Award Presented at GLF*
Brazilian forestry activist Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva was awarded
the 2017 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award for her achievements in
promoting community forest management. She was elected by an international
jury which included the Immediate Past President of IUFRO, Professor Niels
Elers Koch. *More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6602#c27174>…
*News from the Special Project on World Forests, Society and Environment
(IUFRO-WFSE)*
IUFRO-WFSE has initiated a comprehensive assessment of potential and
anticipated impacts of efforts towards attaining the different SDGs on
forests and forest-related livelihoods and development. Furthermore, a
special issue of the International Forestry Review prepared by IUFRO-WFSE
has just been published. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6602#c27173>…
*Introducing IUFRO HQ Staff Member Daniel Boehnke*
Daniel Boehnke is a Junior Professional Officer at the IUFRO Headquarters
in Vienna, Austria and is the Secretary of the IUFRO-EFI Young Scientists
Initiative, the latest collaboration between IUFRO and the European Forest
Institute (EFI). *More <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6602#c27172>*…
*News from the Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) Initiative*
The conclusions chapter of IUFRO-GFEP’s Report on Illegal Logging and
Related Timber Trade is now available for download in 6 languages.
Moreover, the 3rd Meeting of the Global Forest Expert Panel on Forests and
Water was successfully held in Vienna, Austria, including a knowledge
exchange meeting between Panel members, scientists and students at Vienna’s
Boku University. *More <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6602#c27171>*…
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Issue 11/2017
IUFRO NEWS 11, 2017
Dear Reader of IUFRO News:
We are happy to present to you Issue 11 of IUFRO News 2017, volume 46. The
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*Teak in Productive Landscapes: An Introduction to Global Efforts Put into
the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Teak Resources*
At the 27th Session of the Asia Pacific Forestry Commission meeting at
Colombo during 23-27 October, TEAKNET organized a partner event with the
financial support of FAO of the United Nations on the occasion of a *Global
Teak Study* report published by IUFRO in its World Series Publications
Volume 36 in June 2017. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27019>…
*The Future of Forests and Forestry in Asia and the Pacific*
Convened by the FAO Regional Office in Bangkok, a number of international
organizations including IUFRO were invited to a panel discussion to share
their views on likely developments and probable pathways of change taking
place in and around forests in the Asia-Pacific region. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27018>…
*IUFRO Tokyo 2017: Actions for Sustainable Forest Ecosystems under Air
Pollution and Climate Change*
At the 28th IUFRO conference for Specialists in Air Pollution and Climate
Change Impacts on Forest Ecosystems in Japan, emphasis was placed on air
pollution in East Asia, particularly on the impacts of tropospheric ozone
and nitrogen depositions and of climate change impacts on growth and carbon
sequestration of forests. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27017>…
*Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources*
The 2017 conference in Belarus was the first international meeting in this
cycle that was held outside the Russian Federation. The meeting was hosted
by the Institute of Forest of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
and attracted a total of 256 participants from 18 countries. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27016>…
*9th Pacific Regional Wood Anatomy Conference (PRWAC) and Annual Meeting
IAWS 2017*
About 190 participants from 18 countries attended the meeting and actively
discussed various aspects of wood science. The event was co-sponsored by
IUFRO Research Groups 5.01.00 - Wood and fibre quality, and 5.06.00 -
Properties and utilization of plantation wood. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27015>…
*20th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium*
The International NDTE of Wood Symposium is a forum for those involved in
nondestructive testing and evaluation of wood, wood-based materials and
products. Co-sponsored by Forest Products Society (FPS) and IUFRO Research
Group 5.01.00, the event attracted scientists and practitioners in the
field from 18 countries. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27012>…
*Forest Operations Researchers and Geospatial Scientists Meet in Joint
Symposium*
The 17th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR) was
unique in that it brought together two traditionally disconnected
disciplines both working on forest decision support systems: the remote
sensing/geospatial informatics community and operations researchers. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27011>…
*Sustainable Forest Management in the Context of Global Change*
The International Symposium on Sustainable Forest Management in the Context
of Global Change (ISSFM-CGC) in Harbin, China, focused on topics such as
restoration and rehabilitation of forest ecosystems, sustainable management
of forest ecosystems, and forest ecosystem services and functions. *More*
<http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27010>…
*New Interim Director General of CIFOR*
>From 1 November 2017, Dr. Robert Nasi is taking on the role of interim
Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR),
following Peter Holmgren. In a recent interview he spoke about his decades
of experience with CIFOR and in tropical forestry research, and laid out
plans for the future. *More* <http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=6585#c27013>…
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