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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
IUFRO News 3, 2008 publishes a scientific summary of the international conference on "Old Forests, New Management" held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The conference covered the ecology and silviculture of temperate and boreal old forests, and included insights from many large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary experiments. It also includes an invitation for a public relations and communication specialist with an excellent command of English to work at IUFRO Headquarters for one year on secondment. The publications section presents, among other things, the Italian issue of IUFRO World Series 9, Terminology of Forest Management, and a special subscription offer for IUFRO members for the Small-scale Forestry journal.
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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"