4.05.04 - Forest-based value chains
Call for submissions: Taking stock of work and employment research in the forest sector
Submissions are invited for a Special issue of 'Forest Policy and Economics' on the topic of 'Taking stock of work and employment research in the forest sector'.
The SI aims to collect original, review, and commentary contributions from academia, researchers, and practitioners, providing theoretical insights and/or empirical evidence. Potential research fields in this SI (but not limited) include the contribution of forests and the forest sector to employment generation, informal economy, working conditions, gender equality at work and green job opportunities.
Submission deadline: 30 November 2024
Further detailed information is available at: Call for papers - Forest Policy and Economics | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Book of Extended Abstracts published
Managerial forest economics and accounting as a base for decision making in a changing world
Hamburg, Germany, 5-7 September 2022
In order to face the challenges of a changing world, forest owners, scientists, administrational staff and politicians on all levels must make informed choices on future forest management activities. Managerial economics and accounting are important analytical instruments for identifying and evaluating forest management action alternatives and to support knowledge-building and decision-making. Indeed, the interest for the evaluation of forest management options and forest functions strongly increased in the past decades. Against this background, the organizers of this Symposium aim to foster the scientific exchange on recent developments, research and best practices from managerial economics and accounting on regional, national and international level as a base for decision making in a changing world.
Book of Abstracts: https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/publications/proceedings-archive/40500-and-working-parties-hamburg22-abstracts.pdf
Managerial, Social and Environmental Aspects of the Forest-based Sector for Sustainable Development: 40th Anniversary Conference for 4.05.00
Virtual conference hosted from Brno, Czech Republic; 4-6 October 2021
Newly published: Book of Abstracts - Welcome message by IUFRO President Dr. John Parrotta
IUFRO Units involved: 4.05.00, 4.05.01, 4.05.02, 4.05.03, 4.05.04, 4.05.05.
The forestry sector is significantly affected by environmental change and other recent challenges. A continuous string of natural disasters increase pressure on forest management scenarios, timber and non-wood forest products trading and pricing, sale policies, labour productivity, and demand and supply responses. These challenges considerably influence the whole value chain. Forest management, timber and non-timber production, and wood markets are confronted with increasing pressure for enhanced managerial skills, planning, logistics, communication, marketing and analysis. The overproduction and related overall deficient demand for wood products also influence the forest-based sector. A shortage of skilled labour to manage the calamitous situation efficiently is significantly affecting the forest-based sector. In some parts of the world, the challenges and need for transformation in the forestry become even more deeply rooted due to current pandemic, which also notably decreases public interest in forest-related issues. It is the duty of the forestry professional and scientific community at the national, European, and global levels to analyse the situation and address forestry challenges and to propose steps to stabilise the forest-based and wood sectors.
Details at: https://iufro2021.ldf.mendelu.cz/
The Social and Ecological Value Added of Small-Scale Forestry to the Bio-Economy
Bolzano, Italy / virtual; 6-9 October 2020.
Newly published: Report - Pictures - Book of Abstracts
IUFRO Units involved: 4.05.00, 4.05.01, 4.05.02, 4.05.03, 4.05.04, 4.05.05, Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products.
The bioeconomy "encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy" (EC, 2012). It includes forestry and wood production, with the related biotechnological, chemical and energy industries, but also the provision of other ecosystem services that can support sustainable economic growth. During the IUFRO Conference, we thus want to put our focus on interpreting and promoting the impact of forest bio-economy on the development of quality product markets and nature-based services and the concepts behind them: social innovation, product diversification, multifunctionality and the value added network of vertically and horizontally integrated economic stakeholders.
Details at: https://www.iufro2020.eurac.edu/