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IUFRO News, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Febuary 2008
IUFRO News 2, 2008 presents two new IUFRO Occasional Papers: No. 20 “Communicating Forest Science: A Daily Task”, and No 21 “Adaptations of Forests to Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Review”. This review serves as background document for the Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change assembled by IUFRO in the framework of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests’ Joint Initiative on Forest Science and Technology. The February newsletter also reports on the International IUFRO Plantation Certification Symposium 2007 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and lists upcoming events. The sad news is that Walter Bitterlich from Austria, who revolutionized forest inventory methods, and Ted Hillis from Australia, who was Honorary Member of IUFRO, passed away.
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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"
