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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
The 11th International Symposium on "Legal Aspects of European Forest Sustainable Development" held in Zvolen, Slovakia, focused firstly on the development of modern forest legislation and implementation of forest policy tools in different countries with special emphasis on the West Balkan countries, and secondly, on the balance between forestry and nature conservation at public and/or private property level including collisions between regulations in forest laws and environment related legislation. Special attention was devoted to the problems of forest management in protected areas.
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Forest Law Experts Meeting in the Heart of Europe
By Rastislav Sulek, Vice-rector of the Technical University Zvolen, and Peter Herbst, Coordinator of IUFRO 6.13.00 'Forest Law and Environmental Legislation'
On Saturday, 28 August, the last day of the IUFRO World Congress, the winners of IUFRO's Best Poster Award were announced.
Current Executive Director Peter Mayer has been appointed Director of the Austrian BFW. Now IUFRO is seeking to fill the position based on secondment or a specific donor grant as of 1 November 2010.
FORNESSA's Information Service (FORNIS) organizes and presents forest-related scientific information from Africa; thus, it will strengthen information exchange and African forestry research.
The final draft of the IUFRO Strategy 2010-2014 is now open for comments!
Edición especial con todos los artículos relacionados con los temas del XXIII Congreso Mundial IUFRO publicados entre Octubre 2009 y Julio 2010.