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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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Best wishes,
Alexander Buck
IUFRO Executive Director
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See You at the IUFRO World Congress 2024!
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…
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…
Managerial Forest Economics and Accounting as a Base for Decision Making in a Changing World
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…
Systems Analysis in Forest Resources
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…
Payment for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica
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…
Forest Biodiversity Crisis
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…
10th Meeting of Phytophthora Diseases on Forest Trees and Natural Ecosystems
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…
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…
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…
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… |
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