Photo album

Workshop of the convening lead authors and editors of the forthcoming book "Future of Forests – Responding to Global Changes" in Hamburg, Germany 15-18 June 2009.

IUFRO side event at UNFF-8 in New York 22.4.2009. Heidi Vanhanen (Metla), Rene Alfaro (NRCan) and Robert Nasi (CIFOR) presented the Policy Briefs on Latin America, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Sub-Saharan Policy Brief Task Force workshop participants in April 2008 (from top left) Everisto Nonde, Michel Laverdière, Esther Mwangi, August Temu, Alfred Yaboah-Oteng, Jonas Yemshaw; (from low left) Brent Swallow, Catherine Kimengu, Harrison Kojwang, Heidi Vanhanen and Peter A. Minang. Missing from the photo: Patrick Milimo and Cheikh Dieng.

Peter A. Minang of ICRAF acted as the facilitator all through the workshop.

A task force of eight persons from WFSE and the European partner organizations European Forest Institute EFI, Finnish Forest Research Institute Metla and Institute for World Forestry BFH-HU met in June 2007 in Vienna to discuss a draft presented by the four editors.

(from left) Ewald Rametsteiner, Leena Paavilainen, Ilpo Tikkanen, Heidi Vanhanen, Anne Toppinen, Martin Lorenz, Gerardo Mery and Robert Flies.

Participants of the workshop on composing the Policy Brief of Forests in the Global Balance
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; 12-16 January 2005.

IUFRO-WFSE Workshop for Editors and Convening Lead Authors (CLAs)
Helsinki, Finland; 3-4 February 2004

Side Event of IUFRO-WFSE at the Third Session of UNFF
Geneva, Switzerland; 26 May 2003

Launching the World Forests, Society and Environment Executive Summary
XXII World Forestry Congress, Quebec, Canada; 22 September 2003

IUFRO-WFSE Strategy Workshop
CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica; 30 January – 5 February 2001