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September 5 - EFI Annual Conference
September 6 - IUFRO Congress - Scientific Seminar day 1
September 7 - IUFRO Congress - Scientific Seminar day 2
September 8 - field trip
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PLENARY SESSION I
Improving forest-science interface in support of rural development
Thursday - Sept. 6th, 11.30 - 14.00, Cristal Aula
Moderators: Frits Mohren, Stefan Zajaczkowski
- Don Koo Lee »PDF
- IUFRO Strategy 2006-2010: Global science cooperation for the benefit of forests and people
- Konstantin von Teuffel, Frank Brodbeck, Frieder Hepperle »PDF
- Rural development towards bio-based economy - the contribution of forest research
- Ann Bartuska »PDF
- Forests, Economic Development and Poverty in the U.S.
- Anssi Niskanen »PDF
- Forest-based entrepreneurship and rural development in Europe
- Robert Jandl, Dieter Stohr »PDF
- Forests and rural development in the light of global change - a perspective of mountain forests
- Hans R. Heinimann »PDF
- Forest operations engineering and management - the ways behind and ahead
PARALLEL SESSION A
Forests and Rural Development in the Light of Global Change
Thursday - Sept. 6th, 15.15 - 17.15, Aula I, Building 34
Moderators: Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Fergall Mulloy
- Gerard Buttoud, Irina Kouplevatskaya »PDF
- Rural forest use and management as seen in the international dialogue on forests: global policies versus local practices
- Jacek Zajaczkowski, Kazimierz Zajaczkowski »PDF
- Farmland afforestations: new goals and guidelines for Poland
- Alexander Alekseev, Andrey Selikhovkin »PDF
- Rural forested areas as an only background for regional carbon and environmental balance
- Susan Edda Seehusen »PDF
- Incentives for the production of environmental services as development strategy for the Brazilian Amazon forest
- Natalia Khutorova »PDF
- Economic and social effects of bioenergy
PARALLEL SESSION B
Small Scale Forestry
Thursday - Sept. 6th, 15.15 - 17.15, Aula II, Building 34
Moderators: Arne Bardalen, Stanislaw Miscicki
- Janusz M. Sowa »PDF
- The role of licensing of forest service enterprises in the vocational activation of the population in rural area
- Lina Holmgren »PDF
- Impact of gender on forest management in contemporary Swedish family forestry
- Anastasia Stergiadou, Daniele Lubello, Raffaele Cavalli, Janez Krc »PDF
- Estimating forest harvesting operations to achieve sustainable rural development in Valia Kyrna (Greece)
- Leslaw Labudzki, Robert Kamieniarz, Grzegorz Gorecki, Jacek Skubis, Anna Wierzbicka »PDF
- Hunting in Poland in the sustained development of rural areas
PARALLEL SESSION C
Economic Role of Forestry in Rural Development
Friday - Sept. 7th, 8.30 - 10.30, Aula I, Building 34
Moderators: Gerard Buttoud, Lech Plotkowski
- Eva Holmgren »PDF
- Forest Commons in Boreal Sweden – influences on forest condition, management and local economy
- Nur Muhammed, Farhana Haque, Masao Koike »PDF
- Role of participatory social forestry on enhancement of socio-economic condition of the grass root level people: a case study of Dhaka Forest Division in Bangladesh
- Anna Barszcz, Alicja Suder »PDF
- Diversity in the socio-economic role of the main non-wood forest products for the inhabitants of small villages and large towns in Poland
- Anne Toppinen, Susanna Laaksonen-Craig »PDF
- Profit persistence in forest industry companies - comparison of Europe to North America and the emerging countries
PARALLEL SESSION D
Forests and Rural Development: Experiences from Developing Countries
Friday - Sept. 7th, 8.30 - 10.30, Aula II, Building 34
Moderators: Michael Kleine, Maciej Skorupski
- Jens Friis Lund »PDF
- Democracy in the making: critical perspectives on recent studies on democratisation and local forest management in Tanzania
- Morten Christensen, Santosh Rayamajhi »PDF
- Balancing firewood and biodiversity concerns in rural Nepal
- Irmeli Mustalahti, Iben Nathan »PDF
- Constructing and sustaining participatory forest management: lessons from Mozambique, Tanzania, Laos and Vietnam
- Georg Gratzer, Tashi Dorji, Lungten Norbu, Andras Darabant »PDF
- Research for people - the CORET Project in Bhutan
PARALLEL SESSION E
Policies Supporting Rural Development
Friday - Sept. 7th, 10.45 - 12.45, Aula I, Building 34
Moderators: Robert Jandl, Krzysztof Janeczko
- Michael Kleine »PDF
- Training on science-policy interface: experiences from Asia and latin America
- Anssi Niskanen »PDF
- Futures research to support policy decisions for the forest sector viability
- Lukas Giessen »PDF
- Regional governance for improving rural development policies and the question of how forestry acts within integrated programmes?
- Heidi Vanhanen, Ilpo Tikkanen, Anne Toppinen, Gerardo Mery »PDF
- Making European forests work for people and nature - a WFSE, EFI, Metla & BFH policy brief
PARALLEL SESSION F
Forests and Forestry - Public Perception
Friday - Sept. 7th, 10.45 - 12.45, Aula II, Building 34
Moderators: Margarida Tome, Bogdan Brzeziecki
- Pat Farrington »PDF
- Landscape planning for Irish Forestry: An analysis of public perceptions of forest landscapes.
- Wieslawa L. Nowacka »PDF
- Women forest dwellers daily use of forests in Poland
- Santosh Rayamajhi, Berit C. Kaae »PDF
- Tourism impacts on the forests and livelihoods of a mountain community in Nepal
- David Edwards »PDF
- Capturing the social and cultural values of European forests: insights from ‘F4P’ and ‘EFORWOOD’
PLENARY SESSION II
Future Research Agenda (discussion panel)
Friday - Sept. 7th, 15.00 - 17.00, Cristal Aula
Moderator: Peter Mayer
- Ann Bartuska
- US Forest Service R&D Deputy Chief
- Niels Ellers Koch
- IUFRO Vice-President for Science
- Risto Paivinen
- EFI Director
- Piotr Paschalis-Jakubowicz
- IUFRO Board Member
- Risto Seppala
- IUFRO Past President
- Konstantin von Teuffel
- IUFRO Coordinator "Management of Forest Research"
POSTER SESSION
Forests and Forestry in the Context of Rural Development
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Thursday - Sept. 6th, 17.30 - 18.30, Cristal Aula Hall
Moderator: Katarzyna Marciszewska
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