3.08.00 - Small-scale forestry
Unit 3.08.00
UNIT NOTICEBOARD
IUFRO International Conference on Small-Scale Forestry: Small-Scale Forestry and Modern Society
Tartu, Estonia; 22-26 August 2023
Topics of the Conference
- New directions for forest and environmental legislation against the background of global climate change
- Private forests and climate change: bioenergy production versus carbon sinks
- Political, economic, and practical issues of carbon sequestration in small-scale and community forestry
- Family and/or farm forestry
- Knowledge and wisdom of traditional forest practices in rural areas
- Roles and opportunities of forest owners' cooperatives
- Operation of small-scale sawmills and processing plants
- Promotion of non-timber forest products
- Forests for the future: small-scale products and ecosystem services
- Tourist and recreational use of forests
- Impact of forest and environmental protection laws and regulations on small-scale forestry
- Ecological and social restrictions imposed on small forest owners
- Comparative studies of forest and land related legislation in different countries.
Important Dates
- 10 January, 2023: First announcement and call for papers
- 10 March, 2023: Deadline for abstract submitted of first call
- 30 April, 2023: Notification of paper acceptance for first call
- 1 May, 2023: Registration opens
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Optional:
- 1 May, 2023: Second call for papers
- 31 May, 2023: Deadline for abstracts submitted of second call
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- 31 May, 2023: Early bird registration closes
- 15 June, 2023: Deadline for submitting abstract changes
- 15 August, 2023: Registration closes
- 22-24 August, 2023: Conference
- 25-26 August, 2023: Post-conference excursion
Details
Brett Butler, United States
Teppo Hujala, Finland
Ryoko Ishizaki, Japan
Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, Slovenia
Kevin Zobrist, United States
About Unit
TOR Terms of reference
Forest operations technologies and systems for small-scale, nonindustrial forests. Links to location-specific problems of forests under fragmented owner-structure and/or special property rights arrangements (community allotments, common pool arrangements, etc.). Strong links to institutional arrangements (institutional economics, policy sciences).
The purpose of the IUFRO Unit 3.08.00 "Small-Scale Forestry" is
- to exchange information on research problems, ongoing research efforts and research results related to the management of small-scale non-industrial private forest woodlots.
The history of the Unit started at the IUFRO XVIII World Congress in 1986 when a project group on "Small-Scale Forestry" was founded as a co-operative effort of the Divisions 3, 4 and 6. The main topics of the contributions presented at the meetings have dealt with economic and policy issues and also technical aspects of small-scale forestry.
The Unit is also publishing the Small-scale Forestry Journal which is now available in both electronic and print format from Springer.
State of Knowledge
- HYTTINEN, P. 2004. Small-scale Forestry. In Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences, J. BURLEY, J. EVANS, and J. YOUNGQUIST, Editors. Elsevier Academic Press: Amsterdam, etc. p. 663-666.