Dear IUFRO Landscape Ecology WP members,
In October, during the IUFRO World Congress in Curitiba, the
IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party will elect Officers for the
coming two years. Working Party Officers are responsible for
managing and coordination the working party, nominating regional
and thematic coordinators, and articulating the activity of the WP
with IUFRO and other institutions, among other responsibilities.
We hereby declare our intention of running to Working Party
Officers in the coming election. Our motivation is mainly to
maintain the dynamics of this extraordinary network of landscape
ecologists and other scientists and practitioners which has had an
enormous impact in science and in professional activities that
somehow involve landscapes and trees.
With this candidature we specifically aim to:
- Maintain the interaction among members of the WP, either
landscape ecologists, forest scientists and practitioners in these
and related fields and their organizations to promote knowledge
and experience exchange and sustainable management of landscapes
and forests,
- Preserve the geographic structure of the WP including
coordinators and representatives from all regions and continents
in the world,
- Improve institutional cooperation with other organizations in
fields related to landscapes and forests, namely through the work
of thematic coordinators for IUFRO-IALE and for urban forestry,
- Maintain the regular organization of international conferences
across the world on relevant topics for the landscape ecology and
forest communities,
- Maintain the regular publication of books, special issues and
individual papers resulting from the events organized by the WP
and from other initiatives of the WP members, and
- Increase the involvement of young researchers in the structure
of the WP.
This candidature involves João Azevedo, as chair, and Peilei Fan
and Jose Alberto Gobbi, as deputies of the Working Group, as well
as the following regional coordinators:
Pınar Pamukçu Albers: Europe
Ke-Ming Ma: China
Dolors Armenteras: Latin America
Ken Sugimura: Japan and Oceania
Peilei Fan: North America
Syed Ajijur Rahman: South & South-east Asia
The structure of the WP will also include the thematic coordinators Dolors Armenteras for IALE-IUFRO affairs and Giovanni Sanesi for Urban Forestry. The WP will create a new coordination position directed to your researchers, to be nominated after the election.
The election will be on October 2, from 18:30 to 19:20 in Room R10 - WING 2. Please let me know if you will be there.
Nevertheless, we hope to count with your support.
See you in Curitiba or in the 2021 IUFRO Landscape Ecology International Conference.
João Azevedo
-- João Azevedo, Prof. Coordenador Vice-Coordenador do Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior Agrária Campus de Santa Apolónia 5300-253 BRAGANÇA PORTUGAL telefones: (+351) 273 330 901 / 273 303 341 e-mail: jazevedo@ipb.pt web: http://www.esa.ipb.pt/cv/jazevedo/