World Congress 2010

IUFRO World Congress 2010 – Seoul, Korea, 22-28 August 2010
“Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment”

The IUFRO Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) invites all IUFRO members and officeholders to submit suggestions for the themes for the 2010 Congress.

In keeping with the forward-looking spirit of the Congress title, "Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment", we hope that with your involvement we can develop a set of approximately 10 themes that will focus the contributions that forest science is making to adapt to our changing world and address the significant environmental, social and economic challenges facing society.

Suggested themes should be concise, informative, attractive, and hopefully exciting to a broad audience within and outside of IUFRO, preferably interdisciplinary and spanning the social and biophysical sciences.

Our Congress themes will be used as the basis for the development of the scientific program – plenary, sub-plenary, and technical sessions – so we welcome your input into this process to ensure that the 2010 Congress will serve the broad interests of the IUFRO community – its member organizations, scientists and students – and enhance our position as the global leader for forest science.

The CSC will consider all suggestions for the Congress themes received by February 29th, 2008. These should be sent directly to John Parrotta (CSC Chair) at: jparrotta(at)fs.fed.us

The CSC will develop a final list of themes by June 2008 based on your suggestions, and these will be announced shortly thereafter. We look forward to hearing from you, and for your active participation in the design of what promises to be a very memorable IUFRO Congress in Korea.

The IUFRO 2010 Congress Scientific Committee:

John Parrotta (Chair); Jens Peter Skovsgaard (Division 1);
Bailian Li (Division 2); Hans Heinimann (Division 3); Lauri
Valsta (Division 4); Dave Cown (Division 5); Perry Brown
(Division 6); Mike Wingfield (Division 7); Susan Conard
(Division 8); Wilrieke Uiterweerd & Michael Rivoire (International
Forestry Students’ Association); Jung-Hwan Park
(COC Chair); John Innes (2005 CSC Chair, VP-Policy)

Call for Conference Themes (as published in IUFRO News) – printerfriendly version