4:35 p.m.
Dear IUFRO Working Party on Resource Data in the Tropics:
Below is Issue 9 of IUFRO News 2022, volume 51. Past editions of the
newsletter can be found at:
https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Coordinator
IUFRO WP 4.02.01 - Resource data in the tropics
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/40201/
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Subject: IUFRO NEWS 9, 2022
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Issue 9, 2022
IUFRO NEWS 9, 2022
Dear IUFRO Officeholder:
We are happy to present to you Issue 9 of IUFRO News 2022, volume 51!
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All-IUFRO Conference Calls for More Dialogue, Diversity and Breaking Down
of Silos
[image: Photo showing Conference participants gathering in the Atrium of
the Vienna University of Applied Arts "Die Angewandte". Group photo by
IUFRO]
Read all about the recent Vienna conference "Forests in a Volatile World –
Global Collaboration to Sustain Forests and Their Societal Benefits", get
an overview of the sessions and social programs, find out who received
IUFRO Distinguished Service Awards, and *more*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34814>*…*
See You at the IUFRO World Congress 2024!
[image: Photo showing Malin Höglund and Karin Hornay, members of the IUFRO
World Congress 2024 Organizing Committee, at the All-IUFRO Conference.
Photo by IUFRO.]
The All-IUFRO Conference offered an excellent opportunity for promoting the
XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 to be held from 23 to 29 June 2024 in
Stockholm, Sweden. Submit Congress sessions by 13 October and consider
nominations for IUFRO awards! Hope to see you in Stockholm in 2024! *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34813>…*
Hot Off the Press! Global Assessment of Forest Education
Education is essential for safeguarding natural resources, including
forests, for future generations. This is one of the key messages of a new
and comprehensive "Global Assessment of Forest Education" that examines the
status of forest education and identifies much needed actions. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34812>…*
Managerial Forest Economics and Accounting as a Base for Decision Making in
a Changing World
[image: Photo showing participants of the field trip in the forest. Photo
from the field trip by L. Rosenkranz.]
This IUFRO 4.05.00 conference on 5-7 September 2022 in Hamburg, Germany,
targeted researchers and practitioners engaged in managerial, social, and
environmental forest economics and accounting, management of forest
enterprises, forest ecosystem services, land-use, resource policy, social
innovation, decision support making, and related fields under the
bioeconomy paradigm. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34811>…*
Systems Analysis in Forest Resources
[image: Photo showing Field trip participants in the Rocky Mountain
National Park, USA. Photo by Kai Bödeker.]
The 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR) brought
together researchers and practitioners that develop and apply methods of
optimization, simulation, management science and systems analysis to
forestry problems. *More <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34810>…*
Payment for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica
[image: Photo showing Screenshot: Virginia Morales (Forest Engineering,
Uruguay/IUFRO), opening presentation by Juan Robalino (IICE, UCR)]
The webinar "Pago por servicios ambientales: el caso de Costa Rica" held in
Spanish on 18 August 2022 was attended by 37 participants from Uruguay,
Costa Rica, Perú, Brazil and Argentina. The webinar was part of a cycle of
seminars started in 2019 by professors of the Forestry Engineering
department of the Northeast CENUR (Regional University Center) of the
University of the Republic, Uruguay. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34809>…*
Forest Biodiversity Crisis
[image: Photo showing Sandra Luque (left) and Anna Barbati.]
Within the Conference "Frontiers in Ecology: Nature and Society" organized
by the International association for Ecology (INTECOL 2022), the session
titled "Forest Biodiversity Crisis: Resilience & Mitigation Options", took
place on 1 September 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, with 45 participants from
8 countries. The session was held under theme 2 "All is not well! Global
change and the biodiversity crisis". *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34808>…*
10th Meeting of Phytophthora Diseases on Forest Trees and Natural
Ecosystems
[image: Photo showing Extensive plant mortality in California's Sierra
Nevada foothills caused by the non-native and invasive pathogen
Phytophthora cinnamomic. Photo provided by Matteo Garbelotto.]
The meeting stressed the importance of pathogen ecology and impacts of
Phytophthora disease in the context of climate change, wildfire, and other
stressors. A total of 77 talks were given, including four keynote talks
featuring women researchers on diagnostics, taxonomy, and Phytophthora
spread in nurseries, gardens, and restoration areas. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34807>…*
Publications
A New Initiative in Scientific Publications for Forest Sciences: The Peer
Community in Forest & Wood Sciences
A "Peer community in …" (PCI) is an open and transparent community of
recognized scientists in a discipline or related to an object, the latter
being the case of the PCI Forest & Wood Sciences. The Peer community
members act as "Recommenders" similarly to what "associate editors" do
in
classical journals. *More <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34791>…*
A Decade of REDD+: Stakeholder Perceptions of its Implementation
The Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) Programme of IUFRO earlier this
year, GFEP conducted extensive stakeholder consultations in Asia and Latin
America to identify factors that would need to be improved for better
carbon and non-carbon outcomes of local REDD+ activities. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34790>…*
Just Published! Key Messages About the Role of Forests in Ensuring
Sustainable Production and Consumption
Key messages from a high-level event at IDF 2022 titled "Inspire for the
future: the role of forests in ensuring sustainable production and
consumption" highlight the vast potential that renewable forest products
hold to contribute to the transition towards carbon-neutral societies and
towards building inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies. *More
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7461#c34789>…*
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