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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
Issue 5 of IUFRO News 2007 published in May reports on sustainable approaches for mountain forest harvesting and looks at social and technological aspects of mountain logging. In the terminology section, the ‘Diccionario Forestal’, the Spanish Dictionary of Forestry is presented. Finally, proceedings and reports from meetings are highlighted and upcoming meetings are announced, including the IUFRO European Congress and the all-Division meetings of IUFRO Divisions 5 and 6.
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Forests, bioenergy and climate change as well as the capacity of healthy and productive forests to mitigate climate change are the main topics of this issue.
This issue includes a report from the conference on “Old Forests, New Management” in Tasmania as well as an invitation to detail a PR and Communication Expert to IUFRO Headquarters for one year.
Two new IUFRO Occasional Papers are presented: No. 21 "Adaptations of Forests to Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Review", and No. 20 "Communicating Forest Science: A Daily Task".
-Occasional Paper 21- The paper combines the physical science review with discussion of economic and social impacts.
-Occasional Paper 20- Proceedings of the Internat. Meeting "Communicating through the media – why and how"